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 and what you actually wanted to make. You had a picture in your head. A little cottage. A fence around the garden. A…
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 all starting to come together. Systems now in place World · Seeded voxel world generation · Biome-driven environments ·…
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 animation so motion felt natural · developing the simple faceplate that now gives them their expressions Over time t…
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 sunsets or heavy contrast. It was to make the sky behave consistently and predictably so the world feels calm, readable…
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 they gravitate toward, and how they change over time. Two Luminids can face the same task and respond differently - o…
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 gentle world-tending. You shape the space, place a few incentives, and the Luminids respond. The loop is meant to fe…
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 time Luminids have started to feel like real characters instead of placeholder blobs. Defining the Luminid Shape Lumin…
🌱 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, creative games focused on emergence, atmosphere, and watching worlds come alive over time, you can wishlist Luminid…
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Announcements are the developer’s own posts to the game’s Steam news feed: updates and their patch notes, in-game events, releases and sales. The important ones are marked on the players chart.