🌌 Lumina

Light is your weapon. Darkness is your enemy.

Lumina is a team-based PvP arena game where strategy meets tension, and visibility becomes your greatest asset. In the shadow of two colossal spaceships locked in a resource war, rival teams are deployed into the battlefield to mine rare ores and outplay the opposition.

⚔️ Core Gameplay

• Mine ores, engage in tactical combat, and deposit your lumina to push your team to victory.

• Every match is a race for resources — with light and darkness controlling the flow of battle.

• Wield unique abilities to outmaneuver, ambush, or protect your team.

🌗 Light vs Darkness

This isn't just a visual effect — it's the core of the experience. Powered by a custom Radiance Cascades global illumination system, light reveals, hides, and misleads. Master the shadows, or become lost in them.

🧠 Tactical Teamplay

Whether in intense 1v1 duels, tactical 2v2 skirmishes, or coordinated 3v3 showdowns, Lumina rewards map awareness, communication, and timing. This is not a twitch shooter — this is a game of foresight, deception, and control.

🌍 Features

• Objective-focused PvP: mining and resource control over pure elimination.

• Strategic light/dark system for visibility, navigation, and ambushes.

• Abilities and role-based gameplay supporting multiple team strategies.

Will you claim the light, or embrace the void?

(The game is open sourced at https://github.com/nixon-voxell/lumina/)

Playing the game!

1. Download the provided lumina_build.zip file from here or the release page and extract it.
2. Once extracted, you have 2 options, either host it locally, or host it online.

Hosting locally (single machine)

If you just want to play the game on a single machine, simply run both the lumina_server.exe and lumina_client.exe. You can run multiple instances of lumina_client.exe which will act like a different player.

Hosting on LAN (multiple machines)

To host for your entire LAN (local area network), open up terminal and determine your local IP address using ipconfig on Windows or ifconfig on Linux/Mac.

Then, copy the IP address and paste it in assets/settings.ron in the server_addr field.

With the same IP address, paste it also in your other machines' settings.ron file.

Once done, run lumina_server.exe on the host machine (the machine where you copy the IP address). On other machines, including the host machine, just run lumina_client.exe, it will automatically connect to the server.

Hosting online

Hosting online risks your IP address being leaked. Continue this path with great caution!

The steps to host online is pretty similar to how you host on LAN (previous section). The only difference now is that you will need to do 2 extra things:

1. Port-forward your hosting machine on your router with the port 5000.
2. Change the sever_addr field to your public IP address instead (you can check this via https://whatismyipaddress.com/).

For more details on installing, running, or even compiling the game, read this: lumina/README.md at main · nixon-voxell/lumina.