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Lume is included in Indie Royale’s Valentine’s Bundle!

For the next four days, you can purchase Lume along with four other games:

1. Zeno Clash for: steam (pc)
2. Hoard for: steam (pc and mac)
   *BONUS* Includes individual keys for two DLC packs.
3. Lume for: windows, mac, linux, desura, steam (pc and mac)
4. Soulcaster for: windows, desura
5. BONUS: Soulcaster II

The Indie Royale Bundle is a fluctuating minimum price bundle, meaning that the minimum price goes up the more people that buy it! And if people pay more than the minimum price, it reduces the price for other buyers!

So grab the Love bundle at Indie Royale quick smart, and get a piece of the action!  And a piece of the Hoarding. And Soulcasting. And Luming, if that’s a word.

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Work on the sequel to Lume is afoot. And what a foot it is. This is like the Yeti of feet. I don’t think I’ve ever been as excited about a project. Thanks to the success of Lume and everyone’s fantastic support, we think we might be able to make the sequel the game we dream of, it’s going to be bigger, more beautiful and be more puzzling – in a good way *nods apologetically at those who tried for hours to solve Lume’s cupboard lock puzzle*.

There has been a lot of sketchbook work on the game so far, and one of the reasons I haven’t uploaded anything is that you don’t want to see scratchy doodles from the inside of my brain do you? You do? Well, okay here’s a little something.

I went to see the Russian Constructivism show at the Royal Academy in London – a fantastic exhibition full of wall-high photographs of powerful, sometimes almost abstract architecture, as well as small photos and drawings of little models. After a few minutes of awestruck wandering I realised I had no way of recording what I was seeing, no cameras allowed in there, and no sketchbook on me. So I raced out of there, checking first that they’d let me back in, and got my hands on a sketchbook and pencil from the gallery shop (it was difficult to find one that wasn’t a novelty bendy one, or oversized, or, bizarrely, covered in purple fur), then spent a happy few hours making sketches of things which interested me.

Hopefully you can see how we’re thinking of interesting shapes and dramatic camera angles – I seem to have scribbled ‘Imagine balancing here’ on one of them. So it’s been a lot of imagining, but we’ve also been translating these things into reality recently – we’ve been making some real models. I’ll post some pictures of them next.

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Sometimes you get weeks where everything seems to be happening at once, and, in this particular instance, that’s fantastic.  Right after our recent nomination at IGF, we’re delighted to discover that the highly respected folks at JayIsGames.com have nominated Lume for their Best Games of 2011.   And we need your help!  If you can head over to the site and vote for it that would be very kind of you!  And if you think it deserves the title ‘Game of the Year’ make sure to tick the box at the top of the page.  Apparently you can vote every day.  If you can do that that, and some might say that’s above and beyond the call of duty, we would furnish you wish something lavish.  A bit of early Lume concept art? Bits of the model we mangled with glue before we stuck it together?  We would rummage round the studio for you and see what we can find.

Thanks again you all for all your support for Lume!

Luke

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