In development · Early Access in 2027
Play. Create. Compete.
A competitive shooter built to be built on. Play the modes it ships with, or create a game nobody has played before and open it to the world, with pro-grade netcode, anti-cheat and hosting already done.
01 — A platform, not a playlist
Most shooters hand you a list of modes. Luderra hands you the engine. Every server can run a game nobody has played before, with its own rules, objectives, physics, interface, maps, models and sounds. The hard parts are done: netcode, movement, anti-cheat, hosting. What's left is the part that's yours.
JavaScript or TypeScript on Node.js, npm packages included. Hook any moment of the game: spawns, shots, damage, deaths, zones, rounds, every tick. Change gravity and air control, spawn solid objects that can be shot down, set the sky and fog, draw the radar.
Your own interface in HTML: shops, scoreboards, skill trees, a whole card table. Your own maps, models, weapons and sounds. A client script for what runs on the player's side.
Players join and get everything automatically, verified on the way in. No mod manager, no installs, no patching the game. Your mode is live the moment your server is.
In practice
Low gravity, auto-hop, a night sky and headshots only. Not a preset, not a settings screen: rules you wrote, running on your server, played by anyone who joins.
// A game that didn't exist five minutes ago
mode.on_start = () => {
mode.physics = { gravity: 250, airaccelerate: 100, autobhop: true };
mode.environment = { sky: [0.02, 0.02, 0.05], fog_density: 0.015 };
};
// headshots only: every other hit does nothing
mode.on_player_damage = (victim, attacker, damage, hitgroup) =>
hitgroup === 1 ? 1000 : 0;
mode.on_player_death = (victim, attacker) => {
mode.message(-1, `${mode.name_of(attacker)} took the shot`);
mode.schedule(2, () => mode.respawn(victim));
};02 — Netcode
Precision is the whole game. Luderra's server runs at 64, 100 or 128 ticks a second, the host's choice, and plays exactly the same game at every rate: same movement, same fire rate, same spray.
Without sub-tick, your shot would wait for the next tick. In Luderra it fires at the exact moment you clicked, with the exact view you had.
The client sends the exact instant and angle of every shot between two ticks. The server checks it against the path your view actually took, so there's no silent aim and nothing gets rounded off.
The server rewinds every hitbox to the moment you saw it, blending between ticks. In our tests, head-shots register on a moving target at every latency we measured.
Players move smoothly on a clean connection and stay smooth on a jittery one: the buffer adapts to your connection, capped so it never costs you reaction time.
03 — Gameplay
Bunny hops, strafe air control, counter-strafing, and the recoil and fire rate of the weapons you already know. The skill ceiling stays high on purpose.
Looks
HDR lighting with filmic AgX tone mapping, volumetric smoke and fire, and a modern menu where every setting lives: audio, controls with key rebinding, graphics and a microphone test. Prefer the old-school look? Switch to the classic style.
04 — Modes
From 5v5 bomb defusal to poker at the table, every mode ships as an open script: play it as it is, change it, or use it as the starting point of something entirely new.
05 — Community servers
Luderra is built around community servers, like the shooters that grew whole scenes around them. One config file, one command, and your server is live.
A native Linux server for your VPS, or host straight from the menu. Tick rate, friendly fire,
voice rules and more live in one plain server.cfg.
Join and you get the server's maps, models, skins and sounds, downloaded and checked by content, never trusted by file name. No mod folders to manage.
Import classic BSP maps, build new ones in TrenchBroom, or ship native .luderra
packages. Textures are resolved by name from the server's own content.
Crisp Opus voice on one key, V. The server decides how it carries: proximity, team only or everyone, and whether the dead can talk to the living.
Record matches on the server, watch them back, and spectate live with a free camera or from any player's eyes.
Fill the empty slots with bots that navigate, fight and pick weapons, in any mode.
06 — eSports
Some of the biggest competitive games in history didn't start in a studio. They started as a community's idea, running on a community's server. Luderra is built so the next one can start on yours, with the netcode, anti-cheat, casting tools and hosting of a pro title already in place. You bring the game.
New objectives, new rules, new movement. Script the competitive game you wish existed, not another copy of the ones that do.
Every mode runs on 128-tick, sub-tick netcode with anti-cheat, demos and live spectating. Your first match can already be your first cup.
Players join and get your game instantly, nothing to install. Your servers, your leagues, your rules: the community you build stays yours.
Competitive scenes are built by communities, not by publishers. Luderra gives them the precision of a pro setup and full ownership of everything around it.
128 tick, sub-tick shots and lag compensation that credits what the player actually saw. Every duel is decided by aim and timing, not by the server's rounding.
Movement, fire rate and spray are identical at 64, 100 and 128 tick. The practice server, the online qualifier and the LAN final play exactly alike.
Ready-up, knife rounds, overtime, tech pauses, map vetoes: script your tournament format in JavaScript. Ban a weapon or a whole category for a cup straight from the config, no code needed.
Easy Anti-Cheat on every protected server, wallhack-proof visibility on the server, statistical flags and evidence clips. Disputes are settled with proof, not guesswork.
A live broadcast with a delay (GOTV) anyone can watch from the game, server-side demos, a free camera or any player's view. Everything your casters, coaches and referees need.
A native Linux server that runs on any VPS or LAN box, one plain config file, remote admin over RCON. A league can run dozens of servers without a dedicated ops team.
No player ever sees another player's IP address, so a rival can't take someone offline before a decider.
Your servers, your maps, your content, your community. No central gatekeeper decides what your league can play or how.
07 — Fair play
Enemies you can't see are never sent to your game. A wallhack has nothing to show.
Protected clients on every protected server, Windows and Linux alike. An unprotected game doesn't get to spawn.
The server watches aim and reaction patterns and keeps short evidence clips for admins to review.
Other players never see your address. Nothing about the connection is shared with them.
In-engine
Work in progress
Luderra is still in active development. Everything on this page runs today in development builds, but features, visuals and balance will keep changing on the way to Early Access, and after it. Early Access opens in 2027.