Hi everyone! We have some exciting news to share with you! One More Island is officially being published by Freedom Games. For those of you who may not know, a game publisher not only provides funding for developing games that they publish, but also takes care of a lot of the …
I’m happy to announce a first series of One More Island Let’s Play videos has been published by Tom from ResT Gaming. In a peaceful playthrough ResT figures out how to play One More Island and builds up his colony step by step. Improving the game As you can imagine …
A mere two months ago I shared the updated gameplay trailer from March 2021 with you, but several hundred Git commits later it felt like a new trailer was justified. Check out the 1 minute gameplay trailer which shows all core gameplay mechanics, and judge for yourself! Impressed? Don’t forget …
I won’t waste too many words on the new user interface in this blog, pictures say more than a thousand words! It’s safe to say that designer Marco Tonino delivered some great work with the new UI. Update 22 May 2021: check out the new trailer depicting the renewed user …
User interface renewed: clean and understandable Read more »
If you’re a big gamer you might have noticed that most games support multiple languages – even indie-games! As a Dutch person I’m not used to having content localized at all. Of course there are movie subtitles available in Dutch, but aside from that I wouldn’t even consider switching language …
After having started the game countless time I can tell you that it used to get quite repetitive. The same starting island with the same natural resources and fertilities, with the same water/cliff layout… yes, that often lead to exactly the same design of my colony. No longer! With the …
Last Friday the game reached a new milestone: the “Coming Soon” page on the Steam Store is now public so you can put One More Island on your wishlist. That way Steam will inform you when new announcements are posted, the game is released, or if the game has a …
This blog was originally posted on LinkedIn on 22 March 2021 Who doesn’t have a dream slumbering in the back of their head that they haven’t pursued yet? You might want to write a book someday, become an entrepreneur, or in my case: publish a videogame. When I was switching …
Game Development Next To A Daytime Job; Pursuing My Dream! Read more »
A while back I mentioned that Marco started doing the design for One More Island. Several months down the road it’s time for a before-and-after comparison, and I can assure you it’s a huge difference! We’re not stopping here though, stay tuned for another design update in a month or …
Regular players will recognize it when I say building sometimes takes a lot of different actions, which causes a suboptimal building experience. Some players start with creating a zone first, while others choose to lay foundations as the first step. Both will soon run into the fact that there are …