Developer posts and news about this game.
Thank You for Playing the first Luminids Playtest! A huge thank you to everyone who took part in the first Luminids Playtest . Your time, feedback, bug reports, and experiences with the game are incredibly valuable to us as we continue improving Luminids. This playtest has now en
The new Luminids playtest build is live 🌱 Another build is out in the wild. There’s been a lot of work going into polish, fixes, world feel and all the little details that make Luminids feel more alive . It’s still a playtest, so expect rough edges. That’s exactly why I want you
The creatures carry the heart of it From behaviour to feeling A while back I wrote about how the Luminids think. In Dev Log 8: How Luminids Think I walked through the behaviour model. Three quiet axes underneath each creature. Work Drive, Boldness, and Sociability. That was the p
What the rebuilt tools are really for: a place that feels lived in Building in Luminids was powerful, and it fought you the whole way. You could place blocks. You could carve and stack and fill. On paper it could do a lot. But there was a quiet gap between what the tools could do
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Building Luminids in Godot has given me a real appreciation for open source tools and the indie community around them. There’s still a long way to go, but a lot of Luminids now exists in playable form. The core world, creature, building, progression, and atmosphere systems are al
The Evolution of the Luminids From prototype entity to something that feels like a companion. Early creature protoypes were to prove that the systems worked. From there we began our iteration. refining proportions adjusting scale so they felt grounded in the world smoothing anima
Introduction Clouds, lighting, and the day night cycle are not purely decorative layers in Luminids. They are part of the world’s underlying rhythm, and when they feel unstable, everything below them feels slightly off. The goal was not to create standout moments like dramatic su
How Luminids Think - Designing an Emergent System I wanted to write this dev log to explain how Luminids actually work under the hood. A lot of recent development has focused on their “brains”. Not AI in the buzzword sense, but the structure that decides what a Luminid does, who
What “harvesting” actually means in Luminids The goal is to have Luminids notice resources, decide to gather them, carry them somewhere, and then use them for the next thing, with this: the world changes. We are not aiming for a survival grind. Harvesting in Luminids is closer to
Hey folks - i'll do these dev logs monthly, stay tuned for more content. For this one, the focus was on the actual creation of the Luminids themselves. Model work, rigging, animation tests, and trying to lock down how these creatures look and move in the game. This is the first t
🌱 Luminids is now live on Steam Luminids is a cozy world-building and exploration game where you guide small beings of light as they grow, build, and evolve across a living voxel world. After a long period of quiet development, the Steam page is now live. If you enjoy thoughtful