The Lumari family in Proxima's first title, Lumari.
The Lumari family in Proxima's first title, Lumari.
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Proxima raises $1.6M and announces Lumari as 1st game

Proxima is coming out of stealth today as a new game studio with $1.6 million in funding. It also unveiled its first game, Lumari, a social sandbox adventure game.

Based in the U.S. and Canada, Proxima aims to build upon an emerging model in the video game industry, which the company has termed “game-as-a-platform.” In this model, the game acts as a canvas for player communities, economy, and creations.

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Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.