Ahoy, friends!
2023 was a busy year and Lumen’s Education Edition is close to being published. I’m working on a few final tweaks and am hoping to place the order for its first official production run within the next week.
There’s a lot of news to share since my last blog post–the website has unfortunately taken a back seat so I could focus on the actual game. Now that the game is almost done I’m in the process of building a new website so I won’t waste too much time making updates here but here are a few highlights from this past year.
- Lumen’s name has been updated to Lumen PhotoVocab Game from Lumen: A Game of Photographic Terminology.
- The player guide has been rewritten and is much clearer, and more fun, and the game is now themed around submitting work for a photography exhibition. The gameplay didn’t change. I just realized that it plays just like submitting work to an art show so that was a fun realization.
- I’ve hired various part-time crew to help me get things done. I realized this past year that despite being an amazing one-woman show I cannot do everything myself. Starting a business is a lot of work and there are lots of things to juggle. It’s too overwhelming to try to do it all myself. Shoutout to Karl, Madison, Abbey, and Shankar; and to my game publishing coach Joe Slack, and the many other people helping with various projects.
- Lumen now has a Print-to-Play sampler edition available for purchase in our shop. It’s a smaller version of the game we put together to give people the opportunity to go ahead and get the game in their classrooms and/or to test it out before ordering the actual game.
There’s more but I’ll save the other news for another time since I need to go get back to work on the game. 😅
Thanks for your patience and support!
~Captain Carol