Get To Know Us
Lodestar, evolving from the core team of Lisbon’s Ruim Studios, brings together a wealth of international experience. Our journey has led us to establish a collective of seasoned professionals, each skilled in different disciplines, allowing us to create engaging and immersive digital experiences.
The name Lodestar, inspired by our aspiration to be the guiding light in technology, symbolizes our commitment to leading our customers through an exceptional development journey. By aligning creativity with quality, we illuminate the path to achieving their creative visions, ensuring every project is delivered on time and within budget.
OUR SKILL SET
Lodestar is a small collective of seasoned professionals, with background in multiple industries, from engineers and software developers, to digital visionaries, and producers
You can picture us as a team of industry veterans, where each of one of our core members is a senior expert in their field. From software developers to electrotechnical engineers, art & animation, to project managers and producers, our approach lies in assembling the meanest and leanest team possible to tackle each project, making sure our costumer have exactly the expertise they need to execute on their vision. It’s kind of a “Mission Impossible” team assembly, minus the catchy theme music, but with the same level of determination to exceed all conventional expectations.
We are guided by two core beliefs , on one side a passion for crafting captivating digital experiences rooted in immersive human interactions and gamming elements, and on the other a commitment to ensure our clients embark on a seamless, creative development journey, confident of timely and budgeted results.
In an industry where freelancers abound, we've seen firsthand the challenges that often arise.
Flexibility is great, but it can come at the cost of accountability and commitment. At Lodestar, we're on a mission to change that!
Our commitment to deliver with quality, on time and in budget
To help our costumers navigate an industry where the workforce is spread thin and uncertainty abides , we’ve forged our path guided by processes and methodologies entirely centered on transparent, continuous planning, and unwavering communication with our customers. Our goal? To set the gold standard for development and ideation services.
Picture this: Clear work modules, meticulously budgeted and accounted for; communication with our customers that’s not just a promise but a clockwork reality, always happening at the planned time; and unwavering accountability for the state of development. We’re the sworn enemies of lax planning, murky workstreams, passing the buck, and customers needing to play detective to get a status update. 
The sweet spot where digital arts and engineering meet
It’s a place where the ingrained principles of scalability, reliability, and security that govern engineering practices, seamlessly transfer into the realm of digital arts.
At Lodestar, we’ve taken a culture honed for over a century in engineering and infused it into our development processes, guaranteeing not just quality but also a commitment to continuous innovation in the digital arts. This unique blend allows us to innovate better and faster, allowing more time in the development process, so that together with our costumers, we can unleash creativity and explore the boundaries of what’s possible.
LODESTAR IN NUMBERS
Although being a fairly recent brand, we have been honing our skills by making digital magic for the last 15 years. We have had the privilege to work with both large and small organizations, developing solutions over a wide range of technology stacks.
Game Dev
Installations
UI / UX
SOME OF OUR CLIENTS
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