The Other Island

Devlog

• 2024 progress update
  June 19, 2024 by purkka

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  It's been long enough without any news regarding THE WHITE TIGERS, the larger visual novel project set to follow THE OTHER ISLAND. I intended to have this little update and the character reveals up ea... Continue reading

  
• Happy New Year + News on The Horizon
  January 01, 2024 by purkka

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  Happy new year, everyone! It has now been exactly one year since the release of THE OTHER ISLAND. Here's a little status update: I'm planning to post an extensive report about everything I've been up... Continue reading
• Version 1.3 (Experimental Android support)
  January 15, 2023 by purkka

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  Testing Android support! It's the same game, just with slightly larger UI elements so that clicking buttons isn't a precision challenge. There are a few issues I'm aware of and will investigate after... Continue reading
• Making of, part 2: The Engine
  January 09, 2023 by purkka

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  Here are some notes about the design of the game engine, both from the perspective of the user and the developer. First of all: why even build something from scratch? There are a lot of different VN e... Continue reading

  
• Version 1.2 (fixed audio issues for real???)
  January 09, 2023 by purkka

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  I think I finally managed to fix the audio issues some people were experiencing. The underlying cause was, along with bad mixing, things going in the wrong audio bus sometimes due to Godot defaulting... Continue reading
• Making of, part 1: The Script
  January 02, 2023 by purkka

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  #making of

  Spoiler warning for everything in the demo! Also: I go into a lot of detail here. Some of what I write about you may consider to be (fairly vague) thematic spoilers. You may also disagree with my conc... Continue reading
• Version 1.1 (bug fixes)
  January 02, 2023 by purkka

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  Quick hotfix for audio issues: made the ambience tracks quieter and clarified what the volume sliders actually do... Continue reading
• Demo released!
  January 01, 2023 by purkka

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  The Other Island is now available for the low, low price of "an optional donation if you really want to", go play it!! A significant amount of work and thought went into both the script and the game e... Continue reading