Isle of Beasts

January 29, 2023 1:36 AM

Isle of Beasts
A narrative strategy game inspired by King of Dragon Pass and A Dark Room. Your people are exiled to an island full of strange creatures, and you must figure out how to survive, building a new society in the process.

Role: programmer

posted by Zarkonnen (7 comments total)

Ooh! This looks wonderful. I can’t wait to dive in.
posted by Kattullus at 3:28 AM on January 29, 2023

This is great, even though I did spend half of it shaking my head at the relentlessly bickering families.
posted by malevolent at 5:26 AM on January 29, 2023 [1 favorite]

I started playing it, thinking huh neat, I'll check this out for a little bit, then ended up not getting out of bed and playing all the way through to an ending.

That was excellently written, and the shaping aspect was delightful. You've economically captured the feel of King of Dragon Pass, without the councilors, even!
posted by ignignokt at 6:11 AM on January 29, 2023

Very nicely written and implemented.
posted by AndrewStephens at 5:39 AM on January 30, 2023

I really enjoyed this!
posted by one4themoment at 4:32 PM on January 31, 2023

I enjoyed this too and recommended it to friends. I also wondered why it basically gave me a blank screen in Chrome, but I found it was because I had "Block third-party cookies" checked, resulting in this error in the console: "Failed to read the 'localStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this document." I don't know much about it, but maybe there's a way to trap that error and give people a heads up or perhaps to work around it. Anyway, I was glad I didn't give up--great work!
posted by Wobbuffet at 12:19 PM on February 4, 2023

Lovely game, thank you
posted by womb of things to be and tomb of things that were at 6:03 PM on January 6