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Will Gem be in the game?

We are retracing the series with our games, so yes, she will eventually be in it if we do get to that point.

We, in fact, already have an artist for her! It’s the lovely Syl @sylsoddsandends. 

Here are some concept art pieces she made:

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Meet The Team!

This is the very last batch of members with cards! Make sure to give lots of love to our talented background artists, and a special feature from Watcher Child.

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how long do you think this'll take to play? is it quite short or much longer

This is where, as a writer and editor of the script, I go hide behind blocks like Skizz on a Guess the Build reveal. Since we started the editing process for the first season’s script, it has maybe tripled in size? 

The thing is! Not every player will see all that the game has to offer, especially on a single playthrough, because of the different choices and paths you can take. We don’t yet have an idea of how long the gameplay will be, but the game retraces the eight episodes, so it definitely won’t be done in an hour. Lower estimate is 2 to 3 hours minimum. We’ll be able to give a more precise answer later in development.

- Nor

Did you just stumble on this post and have no idea what Project LUMEN is about? Fear not, there is more information under the cut :D

Project LUMEN is a fan indie game currently in the developmental stage. Its goal is to bring the Life Series to life in a different medium, for fans to experience it in a brand new way. Our game will be a RPG of sorts with a world to explore, battle mechanics, interaction with NPCs, different choices to make and our own unique spin on Watcher Lore. It will have changing art styles and multiple endings.

If you'd like to learn more, give our blog a look, and if you’re still curious or have a question, feel free to reach out via our ask box :D

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Do you know if the game will be playable on mobile?

The game won’t be playable on mobile, sorry. We know previous asks a year ago have said things differently, but now we have a more realistic view of what our game will be and the size alone will not allow it. The game will be on desktop only.

Did you just stumble on this post and have no idea what Project LUMEN is about? Fear not, there is more information under the cut :D

Project LUMEN is a fan indie game currently in the developmental stage. Its goal is to bring the Life Series to life in a different medium, for fans to experience it in a brand new way. Our game will be a RPG of sorts with a world to explore, battle mechanics, interaction with NPCs, different choices to make and our own unique spin on Watcher Lore. It will have changing art styles and multiple endings.

If you'd like to learn more, give our blog a look, and if you’re still curious or have a question, feel free to reach out via our ask box :D

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I just learned about what you’re doing, and just HAD to say how absolutely mindbogglingly cool this is? Like… insane.

So, who’s coding the game? Im sure you have a team… are you looking for anyone? The details of game making are so incredibly fascinating to me, I LOVE how this blog is set up where we can see every aspect!!

Hello! Thanks so much for the excitement :D

The main coder (and currently the only full time one) is me, Pie! I took over when the original coder had to leave the project, and have been doing my best creating and modifying all the mechanics and systems for the game!

We're not particularly looking for coders at the moment, but if you have a lot of experience in the godot engine/programming games in general and think you can really help this project specifically, you're free to at least talk to me personally- (I suggest joining our discord server and talking through there).

And thanks for the compliments on our blog! Our pr team (Tay and Nor especially) puts a lot of effort to show off the work everyone in the team is doing! Hopefully soon, in the next month or so, we'll be able to start posting progress videos on the coding and game itself- I'm nearly at the point of adding in all the visual stuff :}

-Pie :]

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are you doing past life?

Short answer is no. 

We want to tell an overarching story with our game and we can’t have a proper ending if we keep adding seasons to adapt. To be fair, the series is on hiatus for now, but we’re probably not catching up before they release a new one. 

We are focusing on Third Life and will see how things are when the demo is out. The plan for now included seasons and specials up to Wild Life and Simple Life. We are answering asks about Project LUMEN. If you have no idea what it is about, there is more information under the cut :D

Project LUMEN is a fan indie game currently in the developmental stage. Its goal is to bring the Life Series to life in a different medium, for fans to experience it in a brand new way. Our game will be a RPG of sorts with a world to explore, battle mechanics, interaction with NPCs, different choices to make and our own unique spin on Watcher Lore. It will have changing art styles and multiple endings.

If you'd like to learn more, give our blog a look, and if you’re still curious or have a question, feel free to reach out via our ask box :D

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Hi! We'll be trying to empty our ask inbox this week! So if you have questions any, please don't hesitate to send them our way! :D

Did you just stumble on this post and have no idea what Project LUMEN is about? Fear not, there is more information under the cut

Project LUMEN is a fan indie game currently in the developmental stage. Its goal is to bring the Life Series to life in a different medium, for fans to experience it in a brand new way. Our game will be a RPG of sorts with a world to explore, battle mechanics, interaction with NPCs, different choices to make and our own unique spin on Watcher Lore. It will have changing art styles and multiple endings.

If you'd like to learn more, give our blog a look, and if you’re still curious or have a question, feel free to reach out via our ask box :D

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hello!! i just stumbled upon this page through the impulsesv tag and i think this looks like really cool project!! :D i wanted to ask about the specifics of being a character artist and what exactly it entails and looks like ^.^ because i am interested in potentially applying for the impulse spot, but i want to be a little more familiar with just how this projects works before i do ^.^ thank you!! <3

Hi anon! Thank you for your ask about the artist recruitment (joined a link for anyone stumbling on this ask first) ! I’m not sure if you have clicked on the form or not, so I’ll be giving a bit of info that is on there just to make sure and try and be a bit more detailed too.

As a character artist, you will be making sprites for your character. We plan on adapting many seasons, but for now we are focusing on Third Life (we hope to have the demo out mid-2026)

Each season has a different artistic feel. For characters, the guidelines are warm colours, a human factor/imperfections, hand-drawn feel. The example we used was a Scott’s sprite made by our lovely Goner @shatteredid.

Each character needs to have a minimum range of emotions. You can have more sprites if you wish, or have a second/alternate version of a specific emotion, but the following list is the minimum: 

NEUTRAL

HAPPY

ANGRY

SCARED

ANNOYED

SMIRKING

RELIEVED

SAD

SKEPTICAL

NERVOUS

You need to have those sprites for each life (mostly Green, Yellow and Red). They do not necessarily need to have lots of differences depending on the character. Some characters have a change of wardrobe, others don’t. Some characters have simply different eye colours. Our Etho (made by the amazing Sal @saltinegam) has different coloured details and bits of outline.

Let your creativity do its magic :D

How does this project works?

We are a big team. If you are in, you will be invited to the tumblr community and to our private discord server (which is why we are restricting application to people who have/can have discord). Different teams usually have a specific boss they can reach out to, but we have a variety of people in charge of communication. We hold regular meetings and check-in form and just chat in the different channels of the server.

As said before, we are focusing on Third Life, but we want to adapt life series up to Wild Life, so this project is potentially going to be long-term. We'll see where we are after the demo, but please consider this while applying. Hope that answered what you wanted to know. Any other questions are welcome :D -Nor