- LUNA The Shadow Dust: Dev insights & gameplay - ASH GAMES Publisher Sale 2026 - 25 August 2026
Event InformationWe're part of the ASH GAMES Publisher Sale Event from Aug. 26 - Sep. 9. We'll run multiple events and announce them here. Apologies if you see several announcements. Dev insights & gameplayWe introduce the team and talk about the inspiration and ideas behind LUNA The Shadow Dust. We show concept art and some gameplay. A lot of behind the scenes content is waiting for you. About LUNA The Shadow DustLUNA The Shadow Dust is a fully hand-animated Point&Click puzzle adventure, brought to life through wordless storytelling, beautiful cinematics and a breathtaking original soundtrack. Watch the broadcast on the store page
- LUNA The Shadow Dust: Dev insights & gameplay - Curious Odyssey Sale 2026 - 15 March 2026
Event InformationWe're part of the Curious Odyssey Sales Event from Mar. 11 - Mar. 18. We'll run multiple events and announce them here. Apologies if you see several announcements. Dev insights & gameplayWe introduce the team and talk about the inspiration and ideas behind LUNA The Shadow Dust. We show concept art and some gameplay. A lot of behind the scenes content is waiting for you. About LUNA The Shadow DustLUNA The Shadow Dust is a fully hand-animated Point&Click puzzle adventure, brought to life through wordless storytelling, beautiful cinematics and a breathtaking original soundtrack. Watch the broadcast on the store page
- LUNA The Shadow Dust: Dev insights & gameplay - AdventureX Sale 2025 - 23 November 2025
Event InformationWe're part of the AdventureX Sales Event from Nov. 19 - Dec. 2. We'll run multiple events and announce them here. Apologies if you see several announcements. Dev insights & gameplayWe introduce the team and talk about the inspiration and ideas behind LUNA The Shadow Dust. We show concept art and some gameplay. A lot of behind the scenes content is waiting for you. About LUNA The Shadow DustLUNA The Shadow Dust is a fully hand-animated Point&Click puzzle adventure, brought to life through wordless storytelling, beautiful cinematics and a breathtaking original soundtrack. Watch the broadcast on the store page
- LUNA The Shadow Dust: Dev insights & gameplay - ASH GAMES 40 Years Anniversary - 21 August 2025
Event InformationWe're part of the ASH GAMES 40 Years Anniversary Sale Event from Aug. 19 - Sep. 2. We'll run multiple events and announce them here. Apologies if you see several announcements. Dev insights & gameplayWe introduce the team and talk about the inspiration and ideas behind LUNA The Shadow Dust. We show concept art and some gameplay. A lot of behind the scenes content is waiting for you. About LUNA The Shadow DustLUNA The Shadow Dust is a fully hand-animated Point&Click puzzle adventure, brought to life through wordless storytelling, beautiful cinematics and a breathtaking original soundtrack. Watch the broadcast on the store page
- LUNA The Shadow Dust: Dev insights & gameplay - AdventureX Sale 2023 - 11 November 2024
Event Information LUNA The Shadow Dust is part of the AdventureX Sale from Nov. 2 - Nov. 8. We'll run multiple events and announce them here. Apologies if you see several announcements. Dev insights & gameplay We introduce the team and talk about the inspiration and ideas behind LUNA The Shadow Dust. We show concept art and some gameplay. A lot of behind the scenes content is waiting for you. About LUNA The Shadow Dust LUNA The Shadow Dust is a fully hand-animated Point&Click puzzle adventure, brought to life through wordless storytelling, beautiful cinematics and a breathtaking original soundtrack. Watch the broadcast on the store page
- Tales From the Far East Bundle - Meet the Devs! - 27 July 2021
Interviewees - Lantern Studio: LUNA The Shadow Dust George Eastmead - Community Manager Mojiken Studio: When The Past Was Around Brigitta Rena - Illustrator and Developer What is your game about, and what does the player do in the game? LUNA The Shadow Dust LUNA The Shadow Dust is a hand-drawn point and click puzzle adventure game. Players control both characters to journey through a magical tower in search of the mysteries of old. Gameplay is joined together with a series of hand-animated wordless soundtracks in an emotional story with an original orchestral soundtrack. When The Past Was Around When the Past was Around tells the story of Eda, a girl who lost her way in the journey to achieve her dreams. Until she met The Owl. From this game, we could see how Eda found love and spark in her dream with Owl’s help, but after a brief time, Eda realized that Owl will not be there with her f…
- One year since the release! Dev Note & few thoughts - 2 April 2021
Hello to our lovely LUNA The Shadow Dust supporters, It’s been almost a year since LUNA launched! Today, we’d like to share what we’ve learned during the game’s development and tell you about our biggest successes (and failures). If you are planning to make a game yourself, we think you’ll find our experiences helpful! The Backstage Experience Many of you might know that after the game was released, we produced high-quality merch (pins, posters, postcards) as a way of breathing new life into our characters. We also ran another KS campaign to make our physical LUNA artbook a reality. We’re so thankful that our book and OST have received such great feedback. LUNA just feels so much more alive now. It’s hard work, and the costs are high, but because we’ve also been inspired by many other great art books and albums in the past, it only felt right to contribute back to the community. Visit o…
- Cute Sidekicks Bundle - 22 February 2021
Cute Sidekicks Bundle In LUNA The Shadow Dust our protagonist is assisted by an adorable cat-like creature. Switch between the two companions to solve puzzles. Despite living in the 50th century, Henry (Mutropolis) is old-fashioned and prefers a good old trowel for his archaeological adventures. MAX, his cute robot sidekick, prefers a more modern approach. So, it comes in handy that players can control MAX every now and then to get the job done! Buy the bundle here: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/18955/Cute_Sidekicks_Bundle/ Mutropolis has launched MUTROPOLIS is a lovely sci-fi adventure set on the abandoned Planet Earth. Play as Henry Dijon (hero, nerd, detective) in search of a legendary lost city. Uncover weird ancient artifacts. And PLEASE don’t get obliterated by an ageless evil. You’ve been warned. After five years of hard work by Bea and Pablo (Pirita Studio, Madrid) the n…
- theBAE 2021 - LUNA The Shadow Dust: Dev insights & gameplay - 24 January 2021
Event Information We're digitally exhibiting at the Big Adventure Event #theBEA from January 21st - January 25th. We'll run multiple streams and announce them here. Apologies if you see several announcements. Dev insights & gameplay We introduce the team and talk about the inspiration and ideas behind LUNA The Shadow Dust. We show concept art and some gameplay. A lot of behind the scenes content is waiting for you. About LUNA The Shadow Dust LUNA The Shadow Dust is a fully hand-animated Point&Click puzzle adventure, brought to life through wordless storytelling, beautiful cinematics and a breathtaking original soundtrack. Watch the broadcast on the store page
- LUNA The Shadow Dust: The Artbook - 29 October 2020
Hello, all the lovely LUNA The Shadow Dust supporters, Great news! The LUNA Artbook we've been talked about forever is finally happening! We’ve just launched a Kickstarter Campaign today in order to bring this hardcover artbook to more people! About the Art Book ✨ 158 pages full-color Laminated hardcover print 📕 An extra 30 pages of content over the digital version 🖋️ Limited Signed copy and more goodies exclusive to Kickstarter backer Our Early Bird Tier & Collector Tier has limited numbers and it's going fast! Get it while still available! 👇Click HERE to Support Us! Since the completion of LUNA, we immediately decided to devote ourselves to the artbook’s creation. Although it was the first book-design project for us, we wanted to do it as professionally as possible. Just as we learned much during the game development, we wouldn’t be able to gain an understanding of bookmaking witho…
- TOMMI Awards nomination, Merchandise News & Dev Update - 1 October 2020
Hello, all the lovely LUNA The Shadow Dust supporters, It has been a while since our last update, and today we have some exciting news to share with you all! TOMMI Award 2020 We’re happy to tell everyone that LUNA The Shadow Dust is shortlisted as a nominee for the Germany TOMMI 2020 children's game award in the PC Games category! "The game, which is co-financed by a crowdfunding campaign, is visually different from the others: Behind the drawing of the characters and the animations is real craftsmanship. And that creates a very special, dense, almost poetic atmosphere. Another special feature of this game is that it does completely without dialogues. In fact, the puzzles are not easy, and that's good too - because once you've immersed yourself in the world of Luna, you don't want to come back so quickly. From 10 years and up” ---------- review quote from the jury expert For us, it is s…
- Trading Cards, Badges, Emoticons and Backgrounds - 13 June 2020
Hello, lovely LUNA The Shadow Dust players You’ve been asking about Steam trading cards for a while - here’s the news you’ve been waiting for! Trading cards Our artist Beidi has spent a lot of time creating some really nice artwork for cards, badges, emoticons, and backgrounds. These are available now and will drop when you play the game. If you're into collecting Steam trading cards, there's now a great reason to replay the game if you have finished it already! LUNA on the Nintendo Switch Unlike many action-based games, point and click titles require changes more focused on redesigning interactions, when porting to a new platform. These changes can even conflict with a lot of mechanisms within the game, for example, the ‘hover mouse over an object to get a hint icon’ feature. We have to re-imagine the experience of playing LUNA from a new perspective in order to find the best way to ke…
- Dev Update & Merchandise News - 20 April 2020
Hello, lovely LUNA The Shadow Dust players, At a strange time like this, we hope all of you are well. Much the same as everyone across the world, all the members of Lantern Studio are more or less forced to work from home under each country’s individual quarantine regulations. It is a hard time for all of us, so many things have been unexpectedly affected but we're still trying our best to keep up our spirits - to work, relax and take care of our family members as best we can. There hasn't been a time in memory in which ALL of us are in such a crisis together, and the only way to get through it is to both help each other and look after ourselves. It is an extremely difficult time for any small studio like us, so we sincerely thank everyone who has purchased our game (and other indie games) or supported us (and other indie teams) in any way! Despite all the doom and gloom, there are stil…
- March Post Launch Patch - 10 March 2020
Hello, Lovely LUNA The Shadow Dust Players, It has been almost one month since the launch of LUNA. After another 2 weeks of collecting feedback, we immediately started work on a new patch to address any further issues. We hope that after each patch, the number of bugs can be reduced and the gameplay experience will be even smoother! So here are the issues we fixed in this updated build: Gameplay / functional improvements: -Added “skip” option for all cutscenes, including the game credits that have played before -Improved interactions across a few levels (The Clock Tower / The Kitchen) Bug fixes (in various levels): -Audio bug when skipping cutscenes -SFX bugs (Game Menu / The Garden) -Character positional glitch / Character freezing during gameplay (The Library) -Fixed the issue in which in certain situations, players may not be able to get the Time Travel Paradox achievement. Original…
- Luna: The Shadow Dust's picture book charm is only skin deep - 28 February 2020
There’s no denying that Luna: The Shadow Dust is exceptionally easy on the eyes. It’s a sumptuous point and click puzzler that sees you move from one lovingly hand-drawn room to the next, as you work your way up a strange and mysterious tower. You’re never explicitly sure why you’re heading skyward, since the game prides itself on its wordless storytelling. Instead of bombarding you with dozens of text boxes, it conveys its narrative through ancient-looking murals adorning the tower walls, and occasionally through the puzzles themselves. It works to an extent, but I’d say that most of the game’s pull comes from simply wanting to know what gorgeous-looking delight awaits through the next door. And without the ability to retrace your steps at any point, the only way, as they say, is up. (more…)
- February Post-Launch Patch! - 20 February 2020
Hello, Lovely LUNA The Shadow Dust Players, First of all thank you to everyone who played our game so far, within the first week of launch, we were overwhelmed by the number of the feedback and comments we received from the community. All these valuable feedback and criticisms are read by us and will be helping us to improve the quality of the game. Therefore we sincerely thank you for taking your time writing to us. So here are the issues we fixed in this updated build: Gameplay / visual / function related improvement: - Added a “skip” button for any cut scene that has played before - Fixed some display issue that caused by large graphic assets - Fine tuned some cut scene details Bug fix ( in different levels) - Character floating or disappearing / Camera movement glitches (Garden) - Character’s interaction bugs when encountering shadows (Specimen Room) - Character position shift / Cam…
- LUNA the Shadow Dust is now OUT! - 15 February 2020
Hi there, We are happy to tell you that after developing for 4 years, LUNA The Shadow Dust, a fully hand-animated Point&Click puzzle adventure is now OUT! And in the first week, please enjoy your 10% off discount! And hope you will like it! https://store.steampowered.com/app/465100/LUNA_The_Shadow_Dust/ Traditional frame by frame character animation 12 frames per second, 3 layers per frame. Over 250 animations and 20 minutes of cinematics. A nostalgic and time-consuming process - but really worth the challenge for a small indie team of four. Single player mode with dual character control Solve puzzles from different perspectives. Discover a story of true courage with two playable characters drawn together through an inseparable bond. Think outside of the box Spark your imagination and solve a wide variety of puzzles, presented in gorgeous hand-drawn environments. Puzzles work standalone…
- LUNA The Shadow Dust is OUT! - 13 February 2020
Hello, lovely LUNA The Shadow Dust supporters! We made it!! LUNA The Shadow Dust is OUT! After a long four-year journey, exceeding our wildest expectations and imaginations, we're finally here! Delivering the game is the final step along this amazing journey, but that journey itself has been truly unbelievable. During these last four years, we have learned so much more than any other project could have taught us, accomplishing the things we thought only the professionals knew how. Many of the members of our communities have become our dear friends along the way. We know we say thank-you a lot, but truly, without you guys, none of this could have happened! Now we have just a few final favours to ask: It would really mean a lot to us if you can write a review or rate the game. Your critiques can help other players to find LUNA among the vast sea of games! Please keep spreading the word fo…
- Luna: The Shadow Dust - Handanimiertes Puzzle-Adventure erscheint Mitte Februar - 10 January 2020
Zum Auftakt ins neue Jahr haben Application Systems Heidelberg und das junge Entwicklerteam der Lantern Studios den finalen Releasetermin zum Puzzle-Adventure LUNA: The Shadow Dust bekannt gegeben. Das "handanimierte Indie-Adventure mit entspanntem Spielerlebnis" erzählt eine Geschichte ganz ohne Worte in einer » Komplette News auf pressakey.com lesen
- Launch Date Announcement - 9 January 2020
Hello, lovely LUNA The Shadow Dust supporters! Happy New Year, everyone! 🎉 Here we come, at last, to 2020. The year we finally get to launch LUNA The Shadow Dust! Today, we have the most exciting announcement to make: The launch date is confirmed! LUNA The Shadow Dust will be out on Steam on February the 13th! We’ve got a brand new trailer for you, too, with never-before-seen footage! Check it out! The following month will be the most challenging for us, aside from our testing period. We sincerely ask for your help in spreading the word. If you know of any streamers or YouTubers who dig puzzle adventure games, please tell them about us! If you, or someone you know, is working in the press, please get in touch for preview keys or interviews with our team.🙆♀️🙆♂️📢🌙🎮 Email is the most direct way of contacting us: [email protected] You can find our presskit on our website: http…
