Lumote: The Mastermote Chronicles Launches Today on the Xbox Store

Hey there!

We’re Luminawesome Games, a small team of four core members based in Vancouver, Canada, and we’re super excited to announce that our 3D puzzle platformer, Mastermote Chronicles: LumoteIt is now bouncing, hopping and jumping its way onto Xbox One! Making LumoteIt has been an incredible labor of love. Without a doubt, it is our passion project. This is a great moment for us to be able to finally see the Xbox Store launch what began as Unreal Global Game Jam’s winning project!

The game is set in the Great Depths, a sprawling aquatic world filled with bioluminescent creatures known as ‘Motes’ who spend their lives deep in the bioverse, living on the rhythms of the electronica soundscape. You play the role of Lumote, an adorable, soft-bodied, and bioluminescent creature who is on a mission against the Mastermote. To do so, you’ll need to descend through an expansive maze-like series of platforms, and take control of the world’s inhabitants on your quest to seize control.

The game features bright neon colors and a relaxing soundtrack. We hope it will provide gamers with many clever, colour-based puzzles!

So, let’s dive into the bioverse and take a closer look at some of the key features found within Mastermote Chronicles: Lumote.

Complex, evolving puzzles

You will be solving self-contained puzzles that grow in complexity as you encounter each Mote. After completing your first playthrough you can change roles to take on more difficult puzzles as Mastermote.

Get in Control

‘Possession’ is the core mechanic found within the game, this refers to Lumote’s ability to take control of the world’s inhabitants in order to help solve puzzles. It is this ability that Lumote can interact fully with the environment around it.

Players can discover the unique abilities of each Mote as they move through the game. Early on, players will meet the ‘Dumbat’, a bizarre little block which powers any other Mote it is resting on. Combining this with the friendly sea slug-like creature, the ‘Hover Mover’, allows players to transport ‘Dumbat’ wherever they see fit in order to complete the puzzle.

We like to think of the Motes as adorable, luminescent ‘tools’ to help Lumote take over the world to overthrow the mighty Mastermote!

Seafoam Moocher

Players will bounce, squish, and hop through the environment. Lumote is curious and inquisitive, as well as adorable. You might start the game for the puzzles, but we hope you’ll stay for the super-cute Lumote, who we wanted to present an emotional connection to players through non-verbal expressions.

The Most Amazing Depths

You will find over 50 puzzles in The Great Depths. They are divided by towers. These towers mark the player’s mastery of a particular Mote, and allow them to unlock a new set of puzzles. You will not see loading screens. Our bespoke design has created a world that is completely unique. rEngine – an original engine built from the ground up for Lumote – so that players can stand anywhere and see all of the progress they have made and everything they have left to do.

This world has been designed to create a contrast between dark, ominous areas and brightly lit pathways. Everything that glows has great significance. The vibrancy of the surrounding environment also reflects the importance of each piece of puzzle. This is complemented by audio design to enhance the organic and yet cybernetic feeling of Lumote’s bioluminescent aquatic world. 

Players are encouraged to play at all points within the game. Lumote, and take in everything surrounding them – it’s such a visually appealing, highly immersive world, which we hope players can take pure enjoyment, and maybe even some inspiration, from.

The most unlikely, yet cutest hero is at the deepest depths! Mastermote Chronicles: LumoteAvailable from Today on Xbox Store

Mastermote Chronicles of Lumote

Wired Productions

☆☆☆☆☆

★★★★★

$19.99

Seafoam Moocher
You can bounce, squish and bop through the environment. Lumote, a curious and highly intelligent cat is adorable. You might start the game for the puzzles, but you’ll stay for the beyond cute Lumote, who manages to deliver an emotional connection to players through non-verbal expressions!

The Most Amazing Depths
Lumote’s world is one large environment that contains many puzzles broken into towers. Every tower is a mark of your mastery over a particular Mote. Each tower unlocks new puzzles as you go down, allowing you to reach deeper into the Great Depths. Players will need to master all of the Motes and then take over the Mastermote for a Masterclass.

Complex, evolving puzzles
You will find yourself in an adventure-filled 3D environment full of puzzles, adventures, and logic. The clever, logical design of Lumote makes it easier to assume the role and increases complexity of each Mote. You can see the whole world, and each puzzle at any time.

Electronica Sounds
You will be accompanied by a magnificent score on an electronica journey. The Great Depths is a music-based communication system that informs you about important moments as well as the emotions of Lumote.

rEngine
Using the original rEngine, Lumote’s puzzles are all interconnected and you can seamlessly go from one puzzle to the next as you progress with zero loading times. On your epic journey through The Great Depths you will be able to look down to view what is left and then look up at all of the soundscape progress that you made.

Photomode
Use the photo mode to explore the Lumote world. Lumote is posing for the camera and choosing the best angle.