Comments on: Island Update

By: Charles Wenzel

Charles Wenzel — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 06:24:12 +0000

I can’t come up with a better way to say this.

This is the only game that I’m truly looking forward to. After seeing very little footage of it in 2010, I was stunned by its potential. Exploratory puzzle games like this are few and far between, and this one is lengthy and being created by a proven puzzle expert. Can’t get much better than that.

Two years later and I’m still excited. Seeing new updates of the island on here makes me happy as can be (so please update more, haha)!

Thanks for keeping us posted for so long – The work all of you have put into this is insane.

By: ND

ND — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:37:47 +0000

In reply to justin. If it is really releasing on iOS then it should have a simplified version of the Myst controls. I think that this would add a lot of accessibility to players that normally struggle with 3D first person games. Whatever the controls are, I bet they won't be anything close to FPS controls.

By: justin

justin — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 05:59:46 +0000

In reply to Ari.

People always ask that! And Jon always says “When it’s done” I want to try and be more helpfull!
From what I can gather from following this game for 2 yeasr now is…
Late 2012 or early 2013 for sure! not 2014!
Platforms: PC Windows launch and Ipad lauch or soon after, then mayb e a console or a next gen console (eaither Sony’s or Microsoft’s, Nintendo’s not likely)
But this could change at any time… Jonathan and his games have this kind of crazyness.
Just wait, its going to be great : D

capcha: schit increase (lol)

By: Ari

Ari — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:59:43 +0000

When’s this damn game coming out already, I’m ready for some enlightenment : ).

Seriously though, what kind of upper bound are we looking at? 2012? 2013? 2014?

By: ScorpyX

ScorpyX — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:07:26 +0000

it remind me Neverhood game
i mean just feel about exploration a strange united new world to me..

I have not read the text so far
sorry – its just message about passing feel : ]
ps. good luck with develop game

By: Florent

Florent — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 20:33:46 +0000

In reply to Jonathan Blow. Ok, thanks for the quick reply.

By: justin

justin — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:16:44 +0000

In reply to Robert Vargas. Do it here!

By: Jonathan Blow

Jonathan Blow — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 05:05:31 +0000

In reply to Florent. We don't have internships available at this time; sorry! Good luck looking around.

By: Jonathan Blow

Jonathan Blow — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 05:04:52 +0000

In reply to Robert Vargas. This already sounds like more drama than I am interested in being involved with!

By: Robert Vargas

Robert Vargas — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 04:22:40 +0000

Is there any method of communicating conceptual tidbits to you (Jonathan) in confidence. I want to make a comment but given the nature of its content I would not want to give the impression that I intend to make a scene.

By: Florent

Florent — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 20:45:01 +0000

Hey might anyone know how I met in contact with Jonathan or anyone else on the project? I’m a student 3d modeler/texture artist looking for internship opportunities.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 27 May 2012 17:07:59 +0000

It looks to me like a pathway with no texture yet. Maybe players were having trouble finding the entrance it leads to.

By: N

Sun, 20 May 2012 23:53:33 +0000

Is that string of blue rectangles the future site of a river?

By: justin

justin — Sun, 20 May 2012 17:02:00 +0000

Has anyone been thinking about how the game feels to play and not just what is supposed to look like? And by feel I don’t mean like minute to minute visual interest or pacing or what your going to be doing, but… How do you walk, at what speed. How do you look around? How far up can you see and how far dawn can the camara go, how will you turn around. You can’t jump, you can’t sprint, the island is small but dense so I;m not concerned about walking speed or jumping…

But recently I played Datura on PSN from Plastic (creators of Linger in the Shadows) and O MY GOD… that game has to have the worst controls of all time for a first person game! You move as if you were playing an old Resident Evil game, first you turn and the you must go forward, this still uses one analog stick but it feels soo wrong! Then when you turn arounf is not like you would turn arounf on a FPS because there is thius little animation your body actually turning BUT ONLY 90 DEGREES AT A TIME its so bad! and then the camara can only look up and down and to eather side by a small tiny degree if you want to look to your sides you have to turn BY 90 FUCKING DEGREES and to look up or down completely is just impossible, you can’t look up or down.

So I’m just curios of the second to second to millisecond feeling of the game regarding seeing, and moving. Have you played Datutra? One of the worst games I have played in my entire life, not because of the content in the game but because i can’t do jack shit to get to the game and what it has for me because of all this artistic bullshit they try to pull! god why!

By: Matthew Marsala

Matthew Marsala — Sun, 20 May 2012 16:17:31 +0000

The island really reminds me of that episode of The Simpsons where Homer is drugged and sent to an island where he is given a number and he has no idea how or why he is there. I don’t think this is your intent, but this is just what the island reminds me of.

By: Sami

Sami — Sun, 20 May 2012 09:09:42 +0000

It’s looking very nice indeed. I like how you’ve brought the terrain up a bit on the right to show that the building’s really built into the mountain.