Racer pumps the adrenalin as you let loose across the asphalt in this fun filled and detailed 3D racing game seen only on consoles and high end hardware up until recently. Racer brings all the enjoyment of 3D racing into the online and mobile space, with the addition of explosions, shock waves, shields and other effects giving you strategic advantage over your opponents.

But watch out, or you'll just as easily find yourself on the receiving end of these antics.

Published by Microsoft Game Studios, and developed by Luma Arcade using XNA Games Studio 4.0, The Harvest is a science fiction themed Action RPG that takes place on future Earth, some years after the fallout of a destructive alien invasion. These aliens, who have been come to be known as The Harvesters, use humans and animals to create cyborgs: crude amalgamations of flesh and machinery. Mankind, in the form of the Global Defense Force is fighting a war against The Harvesters using human controlled mechanized infantry units.

The GDF army has been deployed to various parts of the world in order to fight back against The Harvesters in hope of restoring Earth to its rightful owners. You are part of a group that has been sent to investigate reported Harvester activity in the region of the ruins of an ancient city that was once used as military base for an organization that was a precursor to the GDF, which is where the game begins.

The game world of The Harvest has been designed to provide not only visceral combat, but opportunities for exploration, character customization, and story progression. As players make their way through each game area, they must not only fight off wave after wave of The Harvester horde, but find hidden upgrades, perform story actions, and defeat large and imposing enemy boss units in order to move on to the next area.

The Harvest has been designed from the ground up to be the best looking 3D mobile phone game to date, with innovative touch screen gameplay that brings Action RPG games on mobile devices out of the dark ages. Players are immediately immersed in an Action RPG game experience tailored to mobile phones, taking all the best from the genre, while removing the tedium and repetitiveness that is usually associated with games of this nature. At the same time, they are immersed into a deep and intriguing story that will leave them wanting to find out more.

Core is an orinal IP developed internally at Luma Arcade, designed to be multi-platform and cross-genre. It will encompass such target platforms as high-end PC and console, web and social platforms, as well as mobile devices.

Below is a concept trailer created to support the graphical style and complexity of this title as well as to give impressions of what the world of Core looks and feels like.

It has been a busy time at Luma Arcade during these past 3 years. We've worked on numerous projects across a variety of areas from Online and Mobile games, Engine development, Tech demos, and tons of concept work to boot.

So with a target of just over a minute for our showreel, a lot of work ended up on the cutting room floor so to speak, as we tried to squeeze out the essence of what Luma Arcade is about at this given point in time.

Hope you enjoy watching!

The Luma Arcade team

GENRE: ACTION RPG

In the game world, the player must fight through the decayed remnants of an ancient holy city many years after a vicious alien invasion in order to save what is left of humanity.

Luma Arcade built The Harvest demo in a few short weeks based on our graphics engine developed on the XNA Game Studio 4.0 framework. The game runs on multiple platforms including the Xbox360, Windows PC, and Windows Phone 7.



From Engadget:

"...In what was probably the most stirring demo of the event, however, Joe Belfiore [Microsoft Corporate Vice President] showed off The Harvest, a 3D Xbox title for Windows Phone 7 Series devices. We saw some of this game at GDC, but we got a much better look here at MIX. The game looks incredibly slick, with a Diablo-meets-Gundam feel, and not only does it feature full 3D, destructible environments, but it ties perfectly into Xbox Live, utilizing achievements and full gamerscore and leaderboard integration. We were a little blown away by how much it looks and feels like a true Xbox title. This could certainly be a game changer as far as the smartphone race is concerned - bringing a comparable, connected Xbox experience to a mobile device will be incredibly enticing to end users, especially those already plugged into the company's gaming ecosystem..."

From SlashGear:

"...More visually-impressive is a gaming title Microsoft called The Harvest, again built in XNA and supporting Xbox LIVE integration for keeping track of achievements, avatars and progress. Later in the demo, Major Nelson from the Xbox team showed how you can also load the game on a Windows 7 PC or on an Xbox 360 console and have the same game experience only tailored to the input device – touchscreen, mouse or pad – you're using at the time..."

This project is a modern, multiplayer FPS targeting PC and console hardware.