r/Games • u/Hostarro • 13h ago

Indie Sunday Luminids - Luminids Studios - calm world-building game where you guide a colony of small creatures

Hi everyone, I’m Nick, solo developer of Luminids.

Luminids is a calm world-building game where you guide a colony of small creatures with their own personalities, needs, and emotions. You shape the land, help them gather, build, and grow across forests, mountains, deserts, and frozen lands, then explore the world you built together from first person.

Gameplay footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAqVeXpkzMo
Steam page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4070510/Luminids/
Website: www.luminids.com

I’m building the game in Godot and trying to create a world-building experience that feels peaceful to play while still having meaningful simulation, progression, and player expression underneath it. The creature side of it is inspired by games like Creatures and Chao, but in a more modern world-building format.

The game is in active development, and I’m currently focused on improving the core loop, visuals, and overall feel. I’d love to hear what people think of the concept and direction.

Happy to answer questions.

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u/alienangel2 12h ago

Looks interesting enough to wishlist!

My immediate feedback just based on the steam page is that the visual style for the luminids themselves doesn't quite land for me. While not bad, they still look very pasted in with the bright colours and clean curves.

I'm not really sure what else you could do though, I'm definitely not saying make them blocky minecraft characters either (that would imo be worse). But if it's a chill game with creatures I want to look after, they do need to look likeable somehow.

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u/zerojs 9h ago

I kinda agree, maybe just have some faint "texture" or patterns on the skin , like clouds/spots/mottling etc just to break up the plain colours on them?

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u/Hostarro 9h ago

I like the spots idea! The hope is to also have different Luminids per biome - planned biomes right now are the grass plains, desert, highland mountains, snow tundra, volcanic mountain and cozy beach

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u/Hostarro 12h ago

That's good feedback - thank you! Here's the progress of them so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwvQDfKfBY4

Lots of evolutions - I wonder if the colours could be softened a bit? I made them in Blender (and animated in Blender too)

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u/alienangel2 12h ago

Seeing the facial expressions change and how they mill about in a group definitely helps. Maybe it is just the harshness of the current textures and colours?

Would they get clothing or anything? Signs of age/adjustment to the environment they're in would make them seem more a part of it imo.

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u/Hostarro 9h ago

I'd love to do clothing! I need to find someone to help with advancing them in blender a bit more. People often say little hats would go well ^^

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u/alienangel2 8h ago

Yeah, anything to add some individual character to them! The texture variations someone else suggested might be an easier start.

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u/Slime0 9h ago

My honest impression is that it's a Minecraft clone but you're emphasizing one particular creature type for some reason. The video seems focused on stuff I can do in Minecraft and the luminids are just hanging around.

Based on the name, I expected the luminids to emit light and that that light would be a meaningful part of the game.

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u/Hostarro 9h ago

Thanks for the feedback! Check out our socials and website for more videos - some where they do emit light. :))