Shaki Shaki Island is a ravishing Game Boy-style journey the place it’s essential to use your artistic skills to redraw sprites to progress.
Created as a part of the Game Off 2024 game jam, Shaki Shaki Island is a deceptively good ‘sketch-em up’ that actually pushes expectations by means of its dual-interfaces. In this sport, you’ll journey to a distant island outfitted with solely a drawing pencil and pocket book. From then on, you’ll discover the island, speaking to the inhabitants and making an attempt to gather secrets and techniques. However, most of your interactions will probably be finished by means of doodling stuff you see round you in the world.
Doodling, on this case, means selecting one in all three colors on your pencil and filling out blocks on a handy-dandy, stuck-to-the-bottom-of-your-screen eight-by-eight notepad. If these shapes occur to match choose issues in the world then one thing will occur. Regardless of what that really is, it’s actually, actually satisfying whenever you handle to transform the ‘world’ occasion onto the palette, even when it does take a little bit little bit of getting used to.
The important purpose that it would take a little bit little bit of getting used to is as a result of it’s not made abundantly clear that the colors aren’t vital to the drawing, and since the sprites in the world aren’t 8×8, as an alternative being (probably) 16×16. Once it’s clicked although — and that may have nearly actually occurred by the time you’ve sketched the first couple of flowers — it feels actually, actually satisfying and, critically, cool. It’s extremely simple to lose your self in Shaki Shaki Island‘s whimsy.
At current there’s no definitive finish. However, with 22 issues to sketch there’s greater than sufficient there to lose your self for some time. That mentioned, the developer has mentioned that they’re planning on including extra content material, together with an ending, to it in time.
Shaki Shaki Island is playable now (without cost) on itch.io.
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