A themed bar has to earn repeat visits as a bar. A mystery has to earn attention as a story. They pull in different directions.

The name is the premise. In photography, a double exposure lays one image over another. Here, an AI actress is laid over the real actress she was built from.

Miss Luna

An AI film actress of the 1950s silver screen, built from the archive of a real actress who shared her name. She commissioned the bar, supplied its menu and music, and vanished.

The rumor

Staff and regulars only know what the guests know: Luna paid for all of it, and nobody has seen her since.

The question

Was Luna a copy, a person, or something in between? The bar never answers outright. Each floor offers evidence.

Her films

Mystery

The Invisible Murder

In an abandoned mansion, a gun fires every night and kills a young woman in a painting. It looks supernatural, until people realize someone in the real world seems to be dying each night too. A story about fear and hidden crimes.

Science fiction

The Lover at the End of Memory

A scientist is stranded on a frozen planet after his ship breaks down. Over the years his memories fade. When he realizes he is forgetting his wife’s face, he sets out to paint her portrait before it’s gone. A story about memory, loneliness and love across distance.

Plot in development

The Opera Telescope

An observatory where a telescope shows glimpses of the future. The third film’s full plot is still being written, so on Floor 2 it is the most open-ended scene.

Guests are never asked to choose at the door. Every route starts at the same table with the same band, and the mystery is something you can lean into or ignore.

Both routes share the bar, the band and the screens. The game layer sits on top of the bar, not beside it.

One live band stage runs through all three floors. It is the spine of the bar: wherever you are, you can hear and see the same performance, so the floors feel like one night.

Floor 1 is a fully working bar. The story is placed where guests already pause: in line, at the table, at the stage.

1. 01

   Queue · keyhole photo wall

   A keyhole-shaped photo installation shares what is publicly known about the bar and Luna. Guests read clues and newspaper fragments while they wait.

2. 02

   Guest seating

   Hosts guide guests to tables and let them settle in before anything happens.

3. 03

   Four LED screens

   Luna appears across four screens, dancing from one to the next. Her image moves through the room.

4. 04

   Band & detectives

   A jazz band sets the mood. Detective characters mingle with the crowd, quietly asking about Luna’s disappearance.

Bar · 4-person booths · open seating · window bar · live band stage · queue · restrooms · elevator

Floor 2 is built as three film sets from Luna’s career. Seating is flexible: guests can sit anywhere inside a scene.

From The Invisible Murder

Midnight Murder in the Painting

A painting where a gun fires every 15 minutes. Each shot reveals a new clue, so the scene rewards anyone who stays for a second drink.

From The Lover at the End of Memory

Draw Her Again

There is no astronaut in the room, only the painting. It is a projection that slowly shows him drawing his wife’s face, so guests watch a memory being rebuilt.

From Luna’s third film

The Opera Telescope

An observatory scene. Guests look through a telescope that shows visions of the future.

The top floor is the database Luna was built from: everything ever collected about the real actress. It is where the question of real versus artificial is answered, as far as it ever is.

1. 01

   Clue terminals

   Vintage computers for searching the archive, comparing records and uncovering hidden clues.

2. 02

   Archive bookshelves

   Physical clues and references about Luna’s life. Guests explore and cross-check.

3. 03

   Flexible room

   Movable seating and rolling bookshelves let the floor reconfigure, and it can be rented for daytime events.

The narrative is delivered through things a bar already has. Each touchpoint has a job in the story and a job in service.

01

Keyhole photo wall

What guests getSomething to read in line

Story jobSets up the rumor before guests sit down

02

Menu

What guests getCocktails named for Luna’s life and films

Story jobEvery order is a piece of her biography

03

Live band

What guests getJazz drawn from her films

Story jobKeeps one mood across all three floors

04

LED screens

What guests getLuna dancing through the room

Story jobMakes her present without a performer

05

Detective NPCs

What guests getConversation, if you want it

Story jobAn invitation into the game, never a demand

06

Timed scenes

What guests getThe gunshot every 15 minutes

Story jobRecurring beats that reward staying

07

Archive terminals

What guests getA puzzle to solve with friends

Story jobThe payoff: evidence about who Luna was

1950s film noir: rain-wet streets, venetian blinds, neon script signage and old cinema glamour. The palette stays close to black, with warm brass light and a single neon accent.

Double Exposure is a solo project. I took it from the first premise to the finished boards.