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, typed from end to end. Hook any moment of the game: spawns, shots, damage, deaths, zones, the map's own triggers, every tick. Change gravity and air control, give one player a faster rifle, burn, slow or stun, walk bots along the map's paths, spawn solid objects that can be shot down.
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.
Movement, fire rate and spray come out the same at 64, 100 and 128 tick. Practice on one server, play the final on another: nothing to relearn.
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.
Smoke
A smoke grenade floods the space around it: it rolls along the floor, stops at walls and fills the corner it lands in. What happens to it stays in it.
Looks
HDR lighting with filmic AgX tone mapping, real shadows from the sun, fire that spreads over the floor it lands on, and characters animated from motion capture.
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.
Virtual worlds split one map between as many games as you like: players in different worlds never see, hit or hear each other. A 1v1 ladder of arenas runs on a single server.
Bring weapons from FBX and characters rigged in Mixamo: the tools fit them to the game's hands and skeleton, and the server hands them to every player.
A mode keeps what it wants on the server: ratings, records, unlocks. Arena 1v1 ships with an Elo ladder and a leaderboard; the bhop mode keeps every map's records.
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, the same game at every tick rate: the practice server, the qualifier and the LAN final play 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.
Every match in its own virtual world on the same map: 1v1 ladders, practice arenas, duels side by side. One box to run, one address for every player.
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.
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, hosted on Windows or Linux. An unprotected game doesn't get to spawn.
The server watches aim, reaction and bhop patterns and keeps a clip of every flag, so admins decide on proof, not on a feeling.
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.