Tag: Behind the Scenes

A high-level look at the layered terrain pipeline behind Luminids, and why the order of operations matters as much as the noise itself.

The visual identity, and the reasoning behind it: why the palette is mostly dark, why interface animations breathe instead of bounce, and what glow is actually for.

Model work, rigging, and animation tests: the week the Luminids stopped being placeholder blobs and started to feel like real characters.

Procedural forests are easy to promise and tricky to deliver. Luminids now has full-scale procedural trees at real-world heights that sit properly in a voxel world.

Terrain that reads as shaped rather than generated, and a cloud system rebuilt to sit inside the world instead of on top of it.

Why I am building a game with no combat and no way to lose, and what the first foundation pass actually consisted of.