https://luminids.com/ https://luminids.com/images/hero/thumbnail.webp Luminids Hero World Shape the land, guide a growing colony of small creatures with personalities and needs of their own, then step into first person to explore the world you built together. https://luminids.com/images/luminids-630.png Neutral Luminid Character Icon The neutral Luminid character icon used for social previews and site icons. https://luminids.com/press-kit/ https://luminids.com/images/Luminids%20High%20Res%20(32).webp Luminids Key Art High-resolution Luminids key art for press and coverage. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-49-59_918.webp Water and Terrain Water, terrain, and shoreline readability working together in Luminids. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog11/l2-optimized.webp Settlement Building Structures, layout, and the cozy colony side of Luminids. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-56-36_345.webp Coastal Water Coastal water with stronger depth, surface readability, and distance. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-53-59_900.webp Highland Water A harsher biome shot showing water carrying a different terrain mood. https://luminids.com/dev-log-13-water-that-finally-belongs-to-the-world/ https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-52-55_887.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-49-59_918.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-50-50_765.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-51-36_713.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-52-08_689.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-49-37_218.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-53-08_154.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-53-59_900.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-55-02_553.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-56-36_345.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-57-00_440.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-57-32_829.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-57-44_040.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-57-52_660.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-58-25_327.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-58-29_277.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-58-33_479.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2014-58-41_109.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog13/godot%202026-04-23%2015-00-16_834.webp Dev Log 13: Water That Finally Belongs to the World Rebuilding one of the hardest systems in Luminids until it finally felt calm, readable, and alive. https://luminids.com/dev-log-12-building-a-community-around-a-feeling/ https://luminids.com/images/luminids-new-706.webp Dev Log 12: Building a Community Around a Feeling How I'm using socials, storytelling, and the wider world of Luminids to grow the community towards 20,000 followers. https://luminids.com/images/luminid-cambridge.jpg Dev Log 12: Building a Community Around a Feeling How I'm using socials, storytelling, and the wider world of Luminids to grow the community towards 20,000 followers. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog11/l3-optimized.webp Dev Log 12: Building a Community Around a Feeling How I'm using socials, storytelling, and the wider world of Luminids to grow the community towards 20,000 followers. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog10/luminids-3.png Dev Log 12: Building a Community Around a Feeling How I'm using socials, storytelling, and the wider world of Luminids to grow the community towards 20,000 followers. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog11/ai-camp-optimized.webp Dev Log 12: Building a Community Around a Feeling How I'm using socials, storytelling, and the wider world of Luminids to grow the community towards 20,000 followers. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog11/l11-optimized.webp Dev Log 12: Building a Community Around a Feeling How I'm using socials, storytelling, and the wider world of Luminids to grow the community towards 20,000 followers. https://luminids.com/dev-log-11-building-in-godot-4-6/ https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog11/hero-river-optimized.webp Dev Log 11: Building Luminids in Godot 4.6 Building Luminids in Godot has given me a real appreciation for open source tools and the indie community around them. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog11/l2-optimized.webp Dev Log 11: Building Luminids in Godot 4.6 Building Luminids in Godot has given me a real appreciation for open source tools and the indie community around them. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog11/l3-optimized.webp Dev Log 11: Building Luminids in Godot 4.6 Building Luminids in Godot has given me a real appreciation for open source tools and the indie community around them. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog11/l4-optimized.webp Dev Log 11: Building Luminids in Godot 4.6 Building Luminids in Godot has given me a real appreciation for open source tools and the indie community around them. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog11/l5-optimized.webp Dev Log 11: Building Luminids in Godot 4.6 Building Luminids in Godot has given me a real appreciation for open source tools and the indie community around them. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog11/l6-optimized.webp Dev Log 11: Building Luminids in Godot 4.6 Building Luminids in Godot has given me a real appreciation for open source tools and the indie community around them. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog11/l7-optimized.webp Dev Log 11: Building Luminids in Godot 4.6 Building Luminids in Godot has given me a real appreciation for open source tools and the indie community around them. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog11/l8-optimized.webp Dev Log 11: Building Luminids in Godot 4.6 Building Luminids in Godot has given me a real appreciation for open source tools and the indie community around them. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog11/l11-optimized.webp Dev Log 11: Building Luminids in Godot 4.6 Building Luminids in Godot has given me a real appreciation for open source tools and the indie community around them. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog11/l12-optimized.webp Dev Log 11: Building Luminids in Godot 4.6 Building Luminids in Godot has given me a real appreciation for open source tools and the indie community around them. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog11/ai-camp-optimized.webp Dev Log 11: Building Luminids in Godot 4.6 Building Luminids in Godot has given me a real appreciation for open source tools and the indie community around them. https://luminids.com/dev-log-10-the-evolution-of-luminids/ https://luminids.com/images/blog/luminids-world.jpg Dev Log 10: The Evolution of Luminids This clip shows how Luminids evolved, from a simple sphere on a grid to characters in a world that feels like a place. Iteration is the real engine. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog10/Luminid-1.png Dev Log 10: The Evolution of Luminids This clip shows how Luminids evolved, from a simple sphere on a grid to characters in a world that feels like a place. Iteration is the real engine. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog10/Luminid-2.png Dev Log 10: The Evolution of Luminids This clip shows how Luminids evolved, from a simple sphere on a grid to characters in a world that feels like a place. Iteration is the real engine. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog10/luminids-3.png Dev Log 10: The Evolution of Luminids This clip shows how Luminids evolved, from a simple sphere on a grid to characters in a world that feels like a place. Iteration is the real engine. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog10/dev2-optimized.jpg Dev Log 10: The Evolution of Luminids This clip shows how Luminids evolved, from a simple sphere on a grid to characters in a world that feels like a place. Iteration is the real engine. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog10/cloud1.jpeg Dev Log 10: The Evolution of Luminids This clip shows how Luminids evolved, from a simple sphere on a grid to characters in a world that feels like a place. Iteration is the real engine. https://luminids.com/images/blog/devlog10/cloud1-optimized-optimized.jpg Dev Log 10: The Evolution of Luminids This clip shows how Luminids evolved, from a simple sphere on a grid to characters in a world that feels like a place. Iteration is the real engine. https://luminids.com/dev-log-9-a-sky-that-carries-the-world/ https://luminids.com/images/blog/cloud1.jpeg Dev Log 9: A Sky That Carries the World A calm, continuous sky system - clouds, lighting, and day/night transitions that stay readable and cohesive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/skysytem_luminids-optimized.jpg Dev Log 9: A Sky That Carries the World A calm, continuous sky system - clouds, lighting, and day/night transitions that stay readable and cohesive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/cloud2.jpeg Dev Log 9: A Sky That Carries the World A calm, continuous sky system - clouds, lighting, and day/night transitions that stay readable and cohesive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/cloud4.png Dev Log 9: A Sky That Carries the World A calm, continuous sky system - clouds, lighting, and day/night transitions that stay readable and cohesive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/cloud3.png Dev Log 9: A Sky That Carries the World A calm, continuous sky system - clouds, lighting, and day/night transitions that stay readable and cohesive. https://luminids.com/dev-log-8-how-luminids-think/ https://luminids.com/images/blog/luminids-speech-bubble.png Dev Log 8: How Luminids Think - Designing an Emergent System A clear look at the simple behavioral axes, tendencies, and relationship logic that make Luminids feel readable and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/Luminids%20Icons.png Dev Log 8: How Luminids Think - Designing an Emergent System A clear look at the simple behavioral axes, tendencies, and relationship logic that make Luminids feel readable and alive. https://luminids.com/images/blog/ingame-luminid-thinking.jpeg Dev Log 8: How Luminids Think - Designing an Emergent System A clear look at the simple behavioral axes, tendencies, and relationship logic that make Luminids feel readable and alive. https://luminids.com/dev-log-7-harvesting-inventory/ https://luminids.com/images/blog/chopchop.png Dev Log 7: Harvesting & Inventory Chop, carry, store, repeat. A first pass at harvesting and inventory that turns the world into a playable loop. https://luminids.com/dev-log-6-the-luminids-formula/ https://luminids.com/images/media/luminids4.jpg Dev Log 6: The Luminids Formula - Building a World That Feels Alive A high-level look at the layered terrain pipeline behind Luminids, and why the order of operations matters as much as the noise itself. https://luminids.com/images/media/luminids6.jpg Dev Log 6: The Luminids Formula - Building a World That Feels Alive A high-level look at the layered terrain pipeline behind Luminids, and why the order of operations matters as much as the noise itself. https://luminids.com/dev-log-5-luminids-branding-preview/ https://luminids.com/images/blog/luminids-splash-7-optimized.jpg Dev Log 5: Luminids Branding Preview A full visual identity pass: logo, palette, typography, glow rules, and the UI language that makes Luminids feel like one world. https://luminids.com/images/blog/luminid-splash-test-optimized.jpg Dev Log 5: Luminids Branding Preview A full visual identity pass: logo, palette, typography, glow rules, and the UI language that makes Luminids feel like one world. https://luminids.com/images/blog/luminids-splash-3-optimized.jpg Dev Log 5: Luminids Branding Preview A full visual identity pass: logo, palette, typography, glow rules, and the UI language that makes Luminids feel like one world. https://luminids.com/images/blog/luminid-platform-2-optimized.jpg Dev Log 5: Luminids Branding Preview A full visual identity pass: logo, palette, typography, glow rules, and the UI language that makes Luminids feel like one world. https://luminids.com/images/blog/luminid-platform-optimized.jpg Dev Log 5: Luminids Branding Preview A full visual identity pass: logo, palette, typography, glow rules, and the UI language that makes Luminids feel like one world. https://luminids.com/images/blog/luminid-splash-6-optimized.jpg Dev Log 5: Luminids Branding Preview A full visual identity pass: logo, palette, typography, glow rules, and the UI language that makes Luminids feel like one world. https://luminids.com/dev-log-4-journey-of-luminids/ https://luminids.com/images/blog/Luminid-1.png Dev Log 4: Building and Animating the Luminids This week 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. https://luminids.com/images/blog/Luminid-2.png Dev Log 4: Building and Animating the Luminids This week 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. https://luminids.com/dev-log-3-sculpting-forests/ https://luminids.com/images/blog/proc-forest.jpg Dev Log 3: Sculpting a Procedural Forest Procedural forests are easy to promise and tricky to deliver. This week I finally cracked it: Luminids now has full scale procedural trees that feel alive, anchored in a voxel world, and powered by our favorite space colonization wizardry. https://luminids.com/images/blog/space-colony.png Dev Log 3: Sculpting a Procedural Forest Procedural forests are easy to promise and tricky to deliver. This week I finally cracked it: Luminids now has full scale procedural trees that feel alive, anchored in a voxel world, and powered by our favorite space colonization wizardry. https://luminids.com/images/blog/trees-1.png Dev Log 3: Sculpting a Procedural Forest Procedural forests are easy to promise and tricky to deliver. This week I finally cracked it: Luminids now has full scale procedural trees that feel alive, anchored in a voxel world, and powered by our favorite space colonization wizardry. https://luminids.com/images/blog/trees-2.png Dev Log 3: Sculpting a Procedural Forest Procedural forests are easy to promise and tricky to deliver. This week I finally cracked it: Luminids now has full scale procedural trees that feel alive, anchored in a voxel world, and powered by our favorite space colonization wizardry. https://luminids.com/dev-log-2-living-world/ https://luminids.com/images/blog/cloud-log-optimized.webp Dev Log 2: The Living World Beneath the Clouds Every hill, valley, and wisp of mist in Luminids is now crafted by a living world system - one that breathes, shifts, and reveals itself differently every time you explore. https://luminids.com/images/blog/cloud1.png Dev Log 2: The Living World Beneath the Clouds Every hill, valley, and wisp of mist in Luminids is now crafted by a living world system - one that breathes, shifts, and reveals itself differently every time you explore. https://luminids.com/images/blog/clouds2.png Dev Log 2: The Living World Beneath the Clouds Every hill, valley, and wisp of mist in Luminids is now crafted by a living world system - one that breathes, shifts, and reveals itself differently every time you explore. https://luminids.com/dev-log-1-welcome-to-luminids/ https://luminids.com/images/gallery/t3-workshop-optimized.jpg Dev Log 1: Welcome to Luminids I'm building Luminids because I want a world that feels alive. Just a place that grows, where tiny beings make choices and the world reacts. https://luminids.com/images/blog/dev1-optimized.jpg Dev Log 1: Welcome to Luminids I'm building Luminids because I want a world that feels alive. Just a place that grows, where tiny beings make choices and the world reacts. https://luminids.com/images/blog/dev2-optimized.jpg Dev Log 1: Welcome to Luminids I'm building Luminids because I want a world that feels alive. Just a place that grows, where tiny beings make choices and the world reacts. https://luminids.com/images/blog/luminid.png Dev Log 1: Welcome to Luminids I'm building Luminids because I want a world that feels alive. Just a place that grows, where tiny beings make choices and the world reacts.