And the items Castaway Paradise will launch with are only the tip of the island. There are hundreds of items to collect and use, including furniture and outfits to decorate your home and body. It’s super exciting!”Ĭurrently, however, the game is single-player only-but with plenty to see and do. There’s no lobby system, no complicated Nintendo-like sign-up hassle. And poof-I’m there catching bugs together with you. Without doing anything, the game knows we’re friends and I can visit your island. At the same time, I start the game on my iPhone while I’m in the train. For example: you’re playing the game on your PC. Our goal with multiplayer is to have a completely seamless experience. “Multiplayer is one of the most requested features and also one of the most difficult ones to make.
One of those new features could be synchronous multiplayer, according to Diepeveen.
Since we’ll be constantly adding features, it might happen.” “As for pets, it’s something we’d love to add.
It’s super fun and makes farming a more cognitive experience.” Farming is currently limited to plants only, although ranching is a future possibility. We implemented a match-3 mechanic for farming, for example. “Right now, the farming mechanics of Castaway Paradise are deeper than its Harvest Moon counterpart. While this brings to mind Farmville at first blush, Diepeveen associates it with another Nintendo favorite. A wide variety of crops, like eggplants and peppers, can be grown on a timer. That’s why I designed Castaway Paradise more like a social game.įor anyone tired of running errands for the local baboon, Castaway Paradise will also feature a vibrant farming mechanic. My personal problem with the game is the lack of tasks.
We like Animal Crossing, but we’re not huge fans per se. “We’re diverging from that game by making the gameplay deeper and more task-oriented. “ Animal Crossing is the obvious inspiration indeed,” Eric Diepeveen, co-founder and game designer at Stolen Couch Games told Gamezebo. Similar to Animal Crossing, fishing and bug-catching are lucrative means to expand your coffers, but the bucks don’t stop there. While you’ll start with only a small, donated tent to house your few belongings-basically the clothes and seaweed on your back-it’s easy to begin making money and become a productive member of island society. Players will assume the role of their personally designed avatar, who washes up on shore and decides to make the most of their shipwrecked situation. Castaway Paradise by Stolen Couch Games intends to fill that gap and then some, offering a living, breathing world that is inspired by Animal Crossing but expands upon it in ways that will keep players busy, challenged, and right at home.Ĭastaway Paradise takes place on a collection of islands that gradually open up as the game progresses. Even with vaguely similar entries like Happy Street and The Sims 3 available on iOS, nothing quite scratches our itch for a colorful, cartoony world where you can spend all day fishing or decorating your den-until now. If there’s one game type that is egregiously missing from the ever-growing trove of the App Store, it’s the Animal Crossing-like life sim.
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