Services
At Globant´s Gaming Studio Luminous, we are ready to develop state of the art videogames. We have created the appropriate balance of skills, acquired the talent and methodology to become a new generation of game production studio: lean, scalable, and world class.
The process of designing and developing a “AAA” title, either a Massively Multiplayer Online, a social or a console game is both complex and costly. Luminous attaches to the game production processes seamlessly, building partial to full feature sets, from the core engine, mechanics, and physics to the user interface.
Luminous today has a smaller team in the US and a very large team in various locations in Latin America. If you look at the Latin American gaming industry and entertainment related creative and engineering firms, you will see a big number of small studios, focused on a few genres and platforms. While this entrepreneurial spirit is fantastic for the region, it has not acquired the maturity to produce talent that is consistent and fully aligned with the industry needs in our target regions (North America and Europe). It is unlikely that a small Latin American studio has today the maturity to produce AAA games due to budget and skills restrictions.
The scalability and trained talent at Luminous attains high levels of productivity, conceived using an ingrained agile distributed delivery mechanism, bringing efficiencies across the board and boosting time to market. The studio has more than 500 professionals providing the best services to the most demanding customers.
We are not enthusiasts, we are professionals in this industry, working with the top layer of clients that believe and invest in developing this part of the world.
Our portfolio of services include:
Social games
- Flash 2D, 2.5D (isometric engines)
- Facebook Connect authentication
- MySpace and other networks supported (via OpenSocial or native APIs): we were part of the OpenSocial development team with Google
Console Development
- PS3 and XBOX360 games. Luminous participates in feature development of large titles
- Rendering/ 3D Engine development
MMO Development
- Client development (Unity 3D or Flash)
- Virtual Worlds
- Server backend infrastructure development: custom or Smartfox powered backends
User Interface Development and In-game gadgets
We have UI teams dedicated to:
- Chat systems
- Animated Widgets
- Data driven components
- Game Modes
Commerce
- Microtransactions (in game purchases)
- User interface / store front
- Inventory catalog management
- Payment gateway integration (inc PCI compliance)
Game web sites, socialization and community
- Content Management (portlet based systems with powerful CMS backends)
- Leaderboards
- Clans and groups
- Commerce integration
- Game profile/persona integration
- Code redemption and microcontent purchase
- Forums
- i18n
- Game launchers (Integrated browser experience)
- Multimedia publishing (custom portlets)
- Socialization" of web sites
- Web-based Video Editing Flash applications (video and image selection, audio clip mesh, transition management, effects management)
Game QA
- Multi platform testing (all consoles, Mac and PC)
- MMO testing
We are committed to building sustainable value for our customers: A call to Luminous assures innovation, creativity and state-of-the Art technology, with the right performance and an excellent ROI.
