Luminary Protocol v0.22

Luminary Protocol is a story-based role-playing game where players embark on an epic journey through the magical and mysterious world of Lumis. As they travel the world, they encounter women of diverse races and develop deep connections with them throughout their challenging adventures. The game features a richly branching storyline where the choices players make shift their alignment, influencing how other characters perceive them. The game's stunning graphics ensure endless immersion and enjoyment, with all erotic scenes and animations brought to life.

Gameplay:

The game follows a linear main story, but your choices matter.

Flavour Choices: Most decisions will change your immediate experience and perspective on events, rather than branching the main plot.

Key Events: Rare, pivotal choices will have a significant and lasting impact on the story's outcome.

Alignment System: Your actions will align you with Order, Chaos, or Balance. I consider the 'Balance' route to be the canon path through the narrative.

Features:

Convergence: Reality’s Collage: Lumis isn’t static. Shards of alternate worlds—medieval kingdoms, cyberpunk cities, even mythic realms—materialize and fuse with its terrain, creating surreal landscapes. One zone might blend a Victorian street with floating islands; another could merge a desert oasis with a neon-drenched metropolis. These “Convergences” aren’t just set dressing—they spawn unique creatures, cultures, and secrets, urging you to explore or risk being consumed by the chaos.  

Gods, Demons, and the Unseen: Lumis is ruled by enigmatic deities and ancient demons, each with their own agendas. Some watch from shadowed temples; others manipulate mortals through whispers or curses. Their power bleeds into the world—rivers run with liquid starlight, forests whisper prophecies, and ruins hum with forgotten magic. Survival demands understanding these forces… or defying them.  

A World in Flux: The environment itself reacts to your choices. Destroy a Convergence shard, and Lumis stabilizes temporarily—but you might lose access to rare resources. Let it linger, and the world grows more volatile, but new paths (and dangers) emerge. Every decision leaves a mark on the land, making exploration feel dynamic and consequential.  

Linear Story, Branched Perspective: At its core, Luminary Protocol follows a tight main plot—your arrival in Lumis, the discovery of a looming apocalypse, and the search for a way home. Yet your choices ripple through every scene. Do you trust a charismatic stranger with ties to the gods, or side with a rogue demon who claims to want peace? These “flavour choices” don’t rewrite the plot but reshape your relationships, knowledge, and moral compass.  

Pivotal Moments, Permanent Consequences: Rare “key events” will test your resolve. A village burns; do you save civilians or chase a lead on the apocalypse? A demon offers power in exchange for loyalty—accept, and your alignment shifts toward Chaos. These choices aren’t just about “good” or “evil”; they define who you become in a world where trust is scarce and survival demands compromise.  

Changelog:

Progress has been a little slower than I'd like, partly self inflicted from over-indulging for the UK bank holiday. The other part of it is because the Lilly and Sarah events contained quite a lot of sprites and now that I can animate NSFW images, quite a lot of animations too. I'll probably have to try and tone down the numbers for future updates, but so far the numbers look like this:

Emelia's event - 2 player sprites, 15 Emelia sprites, 3 Emelia animations, 6 Lilly sprites, 2 Lilly animations, 1 combined Lilly & Emelia image, 1 combined Emelia & player animation, 5 combined Emelia & Lilly animations, 2 new backgrounds one of which is animated.

Lilly's event - 2 player sprites, 38 Lilly sprites, 16 Lilly animations, 1 Lilly and player animation.

Sarah's event - 2 player sprites, 39 Sarah sprites, 13 Sarah animations, 2 Sarah and player animations, 4 backgrounds, 1 Sarah image, 1 Sarah & player image.

I'm still making some of the animations, so the numbers for Lilly & Sarah are likely to go up slightly. Also the number of sprites for Sarah is also likely to increase by 2 or 3.

All the animations for Emelia's event are in. Nearly all of them for Lilly are in (may still add one or two) and a few are still left for Sarah (3 or 4 more I think).

I should have all of that done tomorrow. Which just leaves the music and sound effects to do, which as these events don't involve action, combat or unusual environments, should hopefully not take too long to complete.

It's about 1800 lines of code. By the time I've finished with the animations and audio I expect that to be somewhere around 2000. So quite a bit less written content than 0.2 was, but there is more visual content.

After that I've got bug checking to do, a whole list of spelling and grammar errors to correct across the whole game and hopefully get started on a codex screen. I'm going away for a week on the 2nd September, so I'm aiming for the patreon early access release to be a few days early on the 1st September.

Final words:

Luminary Protocol is an adult Isekai visual novel with a dark, unfolding narrative. You, along with others, are torn from your reality and thrown into Lumis—a dangerous, magic-filled copy of Earth ruled by enigmatic gods and demons.The story begins with familiar genre tropes but quickly descends into a desperate, life-or-death struggle. Expect a mature story featuring graphic violence, sex, nudity, adult themes, and substance use.