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Project LUMEN: This Feels Like Déjà Vu

Right, let's try this again

Please welcome our new recruits!!

Hi hello hello there folks!

The time has come, for real this time, thank you so much to everyone, whether you applied or just have jumped into the bandwagon with us! We have reviewed all applications, so many talented artists and writers, and we are sad we cannot include you all :,]

But after careful consideration, here are all the new members of project LUMEN! Without further ado, let's dive in-

Character Artists!

Pine ( @rand0m-pine ) - Skizz

Yuru ( @yuruink ) - Tango

Mer ( @lemonebar ) - Lizzie

Luke ( @anechoicfluke ) - Mumbo

Puff ( @dragonpuff17 ).- BigB

Pama ( @notpama ).- Bdubs

Saltie ( @saltinegam ) - Etho

Goner ( @shatteredid ).- Scott

Art ( @artpocalypse ) - Joel

Star ( @stvrxstruck ) - Gem

Owl ( @xx-0wl-xx ) - Pearl

Cheetah ( @cheetah-roll ) - Jimmy

Arsenic ( @tasty-arsenic ) - Cleo

Arto ( @artooftheghosts ) - Grian and Scar

Pinkish ( @pinkish29 ) - Ren and Martyn

Kori ( @kaos-lyrikourai ) - Impulse and any additional sprites

Writers!

Teri ( @nuggeteri )

Tay ( @quackethh )

Bradgle ( @bradgle )

Manca ( @seafoamwaffle )

Charlotte ( @featheredcatsquared )

Charly ( @charlybvnny )

Izel ( @izelthewashbear )

Writer ( @capriciouswriter207 )

Lee ( @maru-iru )

Sandy ( @pocketzsandy )

Background artists!

Pie ( @thedoomedpie )

North ( @farther-north )

Blue ( @bluejay-flies )

Pigeon ( @agraypigeon )

Andddddd that's everyone! :D Exactly 30 people, we are so very excited to join efforts with everyone who was selected! It was a very tough process, but we thank all of you for your continued support, LUMEN shall continue developing <3

And we will be contacting the Chosen Ones directly throughout today, so, stay vigilant >:3

-The LUMEN Team

PS: If you are unhappy with who you are drawing/what you are doing, you can always contact us :D

[v3ronica-que]

@project-lumen @artooftheghosts

WATCHER CHILD AHHHH I LOVE THIS SILLY CREATURE SM ITS SO SKRUNKLY

[nuggeteri]

"WATCHER CHILD--" I scream as they take me back to the writer zone.

rambles under the cut

Working with @project-lumen has been a blast. Everybody is so nice, so creative. Just a joy to be around, really.

I've been working on the script (because video games do need a script, i know. I didnt know either!) and i've just been having so much fun???

Now, i cannot share details otherwise Kori will bite my head off, but the project is coming along really nicely. It's still in the early stages, like. like really early stages. but i can see where it's going and it's gonna be amazing.

All the Artists (especially background artists!!!) i've talked to have been sickingly sweet (seriously! stop being so sweet!) and passionate (how are they as obsessed with Scott Smajor as I am?!)

I do quickly wanna have a word on Background artist, because... I think they're probably one of the most passionate people in this project. Especially Pie, who is just amazing. They keep sharing ideas and all of those are just wonderful.

Kori especially has been a really good help, being the "boss". they're a good point of reference, each time i have a question, they take the time to explain it to me. They're always so excited to hear my ideas.

I love being part of this project. I really, really do. I couldn't be more grateful, really.

[hermithermithermit]

@project-lumen I'm not applying specifically as a character artist, since I'm not confident with being able to do sprites that look consistently similar, but here's an example of my style! I unfortunately don't have any examples of the "smaller things" I mentioned applying for, but this is how I draw (overall this took me about 5 days to do, likely about 18-20 actual hours of work.) Also dw about the image quality, it's just a screenshot, I can get better resolution.

Also, for my application as a writer, I offer thee an example of my work from Ao3

Drowning in the Deep Blue Sea, You're Still There for Me

It's not a rickroll I promise ;)

Also because it almost certainly matters, I have now seen all six seasons from Scott's PoV, so I am caught up on the series

[bluuedraws]

Some watcher child art ehehehe

I already showed the others but I’ll @ everyone anyways X3

@project-lumen!

[kaos-lyrikourai]

RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH BOUNCING UP AND DOWN AND ALL AROUND

THE WATCHER CHILD‼️ OUR SILLY THING‼️ FOHFOYFOYFIGFIOHFOYROHFKH

THANK YOU SO SO MUCH KING THIS IS SICKKKKK

Hello again 😼

I have brought you some fanart of WC from project LUMEN!

For you guys @project-lumen

I do this then I go back and either work on the warrior cat stuff I need to do, or I doodle my dnd character

Tough choices gang (Zynko Calls)

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Meet the team! (ft. everyone who is contributing so far :D)

🎧🌎 Arto, they/them (@artooftheghosts) --- Musician by blood, hobby artist, procrastinator, marching band kid, silly guy, local skykid, ice cream sandwich enthusiast (the food, but also the youtuber!), polandballer nationstates folk, AND many many more fandoms I refuse to list!

"Ladies, gentlemen, and all or none between! Arto of Artoznik here, live from Arizona, USA, tinkering with the music and some character designs of Project LUMEN! Here to help with concepts and ideas and a lot of the lore (Watcher Child we love you). Thank you Kori for making a public post about this and accepting my completely unprompted request to join!!! I love it when people just talk to me in general, so even if you're not into the project, come and say hi :D"

🦜💛 Pinkish (or any variation, pink, pinkie etc), any pronouns, @pinkish29 —- artist, writer, intheskibidiwood creator, and above all else pro slime rancher!!

“Hello!! I’m Pinkish, and I’m working on art, character design, lore-making, brainstorming and concepts. I’m super stoked to be involved in such a cool project <3! I love all things bird, and mantis, I also adore chats, so feel free!!!”

🌌✨️Kori/Lyrien, they/he (@kaos-lyrikourai) --- Programmer, concept artist, 3d sculptor, chaotic thespian menace, math enjoyer, and videogame enthusiast extraordinaire, among many other secret trades

"Greetings and salutations, folks! I will be the Captain of all the other technical stuff regarding the development of Project LUMEN, aka the code and mechanics, as well as some of the concepts, art and other bits and bobs here and there! I'm very excited to have y'all's company in this videogame making odyssey, and if you have any queries or suggestions, I will be more than glad to answer them the best I can! Cheers and good travels, folks! May the stars be ever in your favor and thank you for faring with us."

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Important Announcement Part 2: Electric Boogaloo

Hi hello folks! The LUMEN team here, with exciting news for you all! The Art Guide for Project LUMEN is officially done, and you can now take a look at how we picture this beast of a project :D

BAM

There it is!

Also, also, important to mention that applications close on January 9th, so be sure to get yours in before that date to be part of this thing we will be building together! Spread the word!

And a last thing, we now have decided that each person that applied for character artist will be in charge of a singular Lifer's talking sprites, and we will require you to at last draw three basic expressions: neutral, happy/excited and angry/hostile. But you can choose to make more, of course, that is just the minimum per skin, making them a total of 9 sprites per season (3 unique ones, Green/Yellow/Red Lives can be recolored, for example). As we contact the artists, we will ask and assign them a Lifer's single season, with the completely optional possibility to take on multiple seasons of that same player. We will be doing it this way to try and include as many artists as we can :]

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Project LUMEN: We are so back

Welcome folks! Welcome! And so sorry for the inactivity. Be assured we have been working hard behind the scenes to bring this thing one step closer to completion :]

It has not even been a month, and it's been a hell of a ride, but hey, we are sure progressing!

Anyway, to revive the blog, some of our newest recruits have asked to join in! So give em all a warm welcome! :3

Plus, as a treat, we are doing an AUAATG (Ask Us Anything About The Game), you guys ask, we answer (as long as it is not too spoiler-heavy ofc)

Cheetah, any pronouns (@cheetah-roll).- "Hellooo!! My name is Cheetah, or Chi for short. I use any pronouns :) I’m a character artist for Project Lumen and will be drawing Jimmy! I’m a cat lover, emoticon abuser (I use them way too often lol), and a big fan of cartoons, Minecraft, and the Crane Wives! :D"

tay, she/her (@quackethh) - writer and traditional artist, crane wives and musical enthusiast, resident aussie, smol bean man lover, stuck in language learning hell

👾🍀 Yuru, she/her (@yuruink) — gamer/music enthusiast at heart, artist at night, and procrastinator at any moment in time :D “Hello there o/!! My name's Yuru and I will be Tango’s artist for Project LUMEN. Very excited to be here on this video game making journey and I'm always open for art ideas or just to chat about character design/games <3!!!”

Bradgle, she/her (@bradgle) --- Writer

North, she/her (@farther-north) --- Background artist: 'Ello! I'm North, and I'm a background artist for Project LUMEN!! I do traditional works using acrylics, colored pencils and watercolor paints :D I'm also an instrumentalist [General Precussion, acoustic guitar, and vocals], Crane Child (Crane wives my beloved <3 ) Desert Duo enthusiast, horror podcast fan, and speak English & Polish. Feel free to yap to me about random things, and hope to see everyone around :3'

Charlotte, she/her (@featheredcatsquared) --- Writer

Blue, she/her (@bluejay-flies) --- Artist and writer for life, big lover of books and stories, obsessed with her cats, and master procrastinator. I’m so excited to be doing the backgrounds for this project! I’m a huge nerd so I will geek out over random things. You cannot stop me.

Charly, any pronouns (@charlybvnny) --- Writer

Teri, he/him (@/nuggeteri) --- Our Scott-obsessed writer in the Watcher Realm

[project-lumen]

》》 The LUMEN M-AHA-sterpost 《《

It was a-BAM time.

Hi hello there, fellow Life Series enjoyers! Arto, Pinkish and Kori here, live from our Game-Making Void bringing to you our comprehensive list of resources in one post for easier access and navigation!

Here you'll find our current status, some important links to other posts, as well as an overview of our tags and a handy F.A.Q. section :3

Without further ado, thank you so much, all info is under the cut!

》Status《

Date Format: [DD/MM/YY]

Current mission: On active development

》Links《

First announcement: Applications

Meet the team!

Second announcement: Our official art guide

Essential info

Arto's lore scraps

》Tags!《

#projectLUMENasks : For every single one of the questions we have answered so far!

》F.A.Q.《

What is this?

Project LUMEN is an effort to bring the Life Series to life in a brand new way, in videogame form! A RPG of sorts with battle mechanics, interaction with npcs, our own unique spin in Watcher Lore, changing art styles and multiple endings with a bunch of mechanics we need to keep secret for now but we know you all will enjoy, at least we hope so.

Cool, how can I contribute?

We want LUMEN to be a game by the community for the community, a tribute to all the wonderful artists, writers and creatives of all kinds. And it is a HUGE project, as such, all help is appreciated. We plan to open applications from time to time to recruit people as passionate as us into our little team. But everyone can lend a hand if they so desire, all ideas, all likes, all reblogs, all comments, all art, is truly, genuinely appreciated. Project LUMEN is completely non-profit, a passion project turned group effort that we are willing to pour our heart into, and we want to be as transparent as possible with it.

How will development of the game itself go?

As for specifications, Kori is the one in charge of the coding department, we are going to use Unity and C# to program everything, Arto will manage music and Pinkish will be in charge of the Martyn and Ren section. But once we review our first batch of applications, we will contact our chosen ones with more details, either for character sprites, script or any other miscellaneous things. We will all be working together as a team, each contributing as much as they so desire.

We will then take to developing our early alpha build including our very first couple of chapters, and release it for playtesting, then we will take all the feedback and make the pertinent changes. We will improve the game and continue developing until we have an almost finished beta build that we will then publish for testing. Take all the criticism again to finally reveal our finished product. Releasing first on itch io and then hopefully ported into Newgrounds for mobile compatibility.

Is there a release date?

As of now, we'd rather not promise anything. But we are actively working on development, and we hope to, at the very least, have a playable alpha demo at the end of this year.

[v3ronica-que]

@project-lumen @artooftheghosts

MORE WATCHER CHILD idk gang I love this thing to much I just did some doodles bc at this point I’m adopting the watcher child like

I also feel like they would be a bit of a nerd idk tho that’s just me 🟪

[project-lumen]

Reminder:

Applications close TODAY!

So make sure to get yours in before 8PM CST

[project-lumen]

Alright, we should be all caught up now, I believe

Thank you so very much for all your continued support, really. We are all very grateful for the reception and we look forward to what the future has in store <3

- Kori

Huh, what could this be?

Extra art as a little treat! This was the very first Watcher/player design, I made this one, before LUMEN got its name, before Arto and Pinkish joined in and before WC was even a thing.

Silly ball with a gigantic eye, it's so goofy I love it.

[nuggeteri]

tale of the honorable. its a tale. of the honorable.

sighs Goner where are you

[kaos-lyrikourai]

RAHHHHHHHHHHHH LISTEN TO THIS RIGHT. NOW.

I said it once and I will say it again, I LOVE THISSS, it's so chill and wonderful and the vibes are just downright incredible

(and I get to brag about this theme being in our Life Series game and the one who made it being my friend >:3)

Music Sneak Peek!!

Hi-hey-hello, Arto here!!!

I write music, as most of you know. So I decided to show you a song---the official main title screen song :D I hope you guys like it and this is an idea of what I make… actually rlly praying you all like it!!

<3

[nuggeteri]

Oh, look! I wonder who that is :D

Project LUMEN: This Feels Like Déjà Vu

Right, let's try this again

Please welcome our new recruits!!

Hi hello hello there folks!

The time has come, for real this time, thank you so much to everyone, whether you applied or just have jumped into the bandwagon with us! We have reviewed all applications, so many talented artists and writers, and we are sad we cannot include you all :,]

But after careful consideration, here are all the new members of project LUMEN! Without further ado, let's dive in-

Character Artists!

Pine ( @rand0m-pine ) - Skizz

Yuru ( @yuruink ) - Tango

Mer ( @lemonebar ) - Lizzie

Luke ( @anechoicfluke ) - Mumbo

Puff ( @dragonpuff17 ).- BigB

Pama ( @notpama ).- Bdubs

Saltie ( @saltinegam ) - Etho

Goner ( @shatteredid ).- Scott

Art ( @artpocalypse ) - Joel

Star ( @stvrxstruck ) - Gem

Owl ( @xx-0wl-xx ) - Pearl

Cheetah ( @cheetah-roll ) - Jimmy

Arsenic ( @tasty-arsenic ) - Cleo

Arto ( @artooftheghosts ) - Grian and Scar

Pinkish ( @pinkish29 ) - Ren and Martyn

Kori ( @kaos-lyrikourai ) - Impulse and any additional sprites

Writers!

Teri ( @nuggeteri )

Tay ( @quackethh )

Bradgle ( @bradgle )

Manca ( @seafoamwaffle )

Charlotte ( @featheredcatsquared )

Charly ( @charlybvnny )

Izel ( @izelthewashbear )

Writer ( @capriciouswriter207 )

Lee ( @maru-iru )

Sandy ( @pocketzsandy )

Background artists!

Pie ( @thedoomedpie )

North ( @farther-north )

Blue ( @bluejay-flies )

Pigeon ( @agraypigeon )

Andddddd that's everyone! :D Exactly 30 people, we are so very excited to join efforts with everyone who was selected! It was a very tough process, but we thank all of you for your continued support, LUMEN shall continue developing <3

And we will be contacting the Chosen Ones directly throughout today, so, stay vigilant >:3

-The LUMEN Team

PS: If you are unhappy with who you are drawing/what you are doing, you can always contact us :D