This game is fantastic! I’ve played it over and over and finally beat it. It’s installed on my flashcart and I’ve been playing it on my GBA. I just went back and paid you something for it. Thanks for making it name-your-own-price.
I can’t get other how simple this is, but how engaging the gameplay is. Everything you put in here is polished and fun. Great job.
If I could change one thing in it, it would be to add a run when you hold down the b button. I think it would speed up gameplay without making it feel rushed.
This looks fantastic and feels like a high quality original gameboy game. Any chance is could be posted as a .gb file so we could play on a flash cart? I'd love to play this on original hardware.
This is a fun, simple service-style game (not sure what the official name of that genre would be). But it's fun!
If you plan on continuing to work on it, I could this being super replay-able with a few wrinkles ironed out. Being able to pick up multiple tools at once makes it a little too easy. Having a loss potential in there would make the game more engaging too maybe, but even as-is it's nice and relaxing.
Overall I really enjoyed what you've put together here and I hope it was a rewarding experience for you to make!
Thank you so much for letting me know! I’ve been playing Island in browser since the decomp team released it. And I’ve been enjoying that immensely. But baraklava’s remaster here adds so much more content while still feeling like the original game that it’s making me itch for the original island with updated graphics, controls, and then more to do. If that never happens though I am so glad to have isle dot pizza.
I do appreciate your highlight! Very kind of you to spread the news.
Man, that’s a bummer. I support you as a developer. But I won’t be buying this game I guess. Sorry.
I do appreciate the update and the frankness! Thanks for letting your fans know what’s happening even when it’s news that may not be fun to deliver. And thanks for checking for us.
Venerable Ben, I am beyond ecstatic to see you publish a new game. I am so sad to see the ROM file is locked behind bars though. I'd love to buy your game, but I can't justify dropping the money on a physical cart when I've got a flash cart ready to receive a file. Please, do what you can to get this ROM-shoppable.
The fact that this game has the original tucked inside to play without any polish, is so great. But then 3 remastered campaigns plus the ability to load in user submitted content? What a tribute! Inspiring! I hope Island and Racers 1 gets this sort of TLC from the community too.
Dude, this looks awesome! Is it still in development? Manic Miners being completed, I wonder if there are devs interested in teaming up on this project that aren't working on that one anymore. Not to mention assets that could help in development.
This looks legendary. It'd be awesome to see it finished.
You were absolutely right. Sound and music made it even better! And I found out there's more than just the two endings I thought I'd find? Gotta play again.
What a well-made game. Artwork and game mechanics are all so well-done! I played without sound, but I saw Coffee Bat did music, so I'm sure it's amazing too.
It seems like zooming in and out of the webpage effects a lot of the gameplay. I had terrible luck with the miners when my zoom was set to 100%. They wouldn't climb back up to chop another block after they finished the first one, but it looked like they were programmed to do so.
And when I upgraded their speed (I think lvl 6 with the red boots) they became so fast they could not center on a block to break it rendering them completely useless.
Also I could not figure out what the secret Click Radius power up was or how to unlock it.
Zooming out on the webpage itself seemed to be the answer. I set zoom to 25% so the game was ridiculously tiny and the miners were able to dig again and they could climb back up to break multiple blocks after finishing their first one. I think even setting zoom to 75% is enough to get these features to function as intended.
And hovering over the center of the spire (at 25%) allowed my power click to reach nearly every block in the layer without moving.
Anyway, was finally able to max out every upgrade after that. Fun game. For me the bugs were simultaneously obnoxious and a fun mystery to solve.
Aw man! This game is so cute and chill. Why the nudity? So many other fun and family friendly surprises could've been hiding behind the blinds! Aside from that, terrifically cute game.
Wow! I've played the older version of this and loved it! So cool to see all the under-the-hood updates! Not so mention some of the quality-of-life upgrades you've listed.
I'll definitely be playing this again. My wife and I love this nanogram-style games. I'll have to show her this one.
I don’t know if anyone’s told you this or not, but gameboy games have absolutely no business being this beautiful. Dial the artwork and animation knobs down a bit. And maybe don’t polish the game mechanics and story telling so much either. This is supposed to be homebrew after all.
I play on an EZ Flash Jr for my gameboy. No mod required. I think they run around $40 now. There are cheaper knock-off flash carts you can get though.
Actually EZ flash is a knock-off of Everdrive. Any of those are great options honestly. I’ve run mine for over a year now and I play it all the time. It’s as easy as popping the micro SD into my computer, putting the game file on it, and popping it back into the flash cart.
This game is awesome. Not gonna lie, when I first opened it and moved around I thought, "this won't hold my attention for long." I think the tiny sprite and the movement felt a little floaty or something. Not sure. But I pressed on and before long I discovered the catch.
This game is built on very tight platforming. Challenge rating is very high. It reminds me a bit of I Wanna Be The Guy mixed a bit with Celeste. I couldn't put it down! As I kept playing it kept going on! I'd come across a room and be like "nope!" Come back to it a while later and have equipment that enabled me to do it, or just a better handle on the controls. The map is very open, but also kind of grows in challenge as you move through it.
Super super well done! I have not finished it, but I definitely will keep playing until I do.
(Also, I'm playing on a flashcart on my GBA... and I'm not one to use save states for the purpose of easing the difficulty or fast-tracking through stuff, but... I don't know how you're supposed to complete this game without it. For real! So... I apologize for cheating, but also I intend to continue. I am not this good. Maybe a day will come when I'll cycle back around and play through save-state-free. But it is not this day!)
Thanks for making it and thanks for making it free. Just sent you a Coffee. It's totally worth at least that much!
