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🌊 ISLANDERS: New Shores Demo Is Here – Try the Next Chapter Today!

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490d ago

Hey ISLANDERS friends, we’ve got something special to share… We’re incredibly excited (and honestly, a bit emotional!) to finally let you know that the next step in the ISLANDERS journey is here! 🏝️ ISLANDERS: New Shores is part of Steam’s City Builder & Colony Sim Fest, and we’ve released a DEMO that’s live for a limited time. This is your first chance to get hands-on with the game, and as long-time fans, we’d absolutely love for you to be among the first to try it out. 🌋We’ve taken everything that made the original ISLANDERS special and expanded on it - gently and carefully, like one of your best building placements. Whether you're a high-score chaser or someone who just loves zoning out and building something beautiful, there’s so much here for you to explore.

Just some of what’s new in ISLANDERS: New Shores:

New Islands - Explore majestic new island types. Volcanic peaks in the “Lava” islands, or the tranquil beauty of the “Fantasy” islands.
Photo Mode - Capture and share your stunning island creations with customisable filters and a turntable camera.
Expanded Soundtrack - Enjoy 75 minutes of original music that sets the perfect mood for your building adventures.
Dynamic Scoring Systems - Master innovative scoring methods - such as line of sight, distance bonuses, and inter-island strategies - to enhance your gameplay.
Boons - Unlock single-use power-ups that give you unique tactical advantages as you progress.
Twitch Integration - Streamers can now engage their audiences directly with interactive features built into the game.

We Want Your Feedback!

As the OG fans of ISLANDERS, we would love to know your thoughts and feedback on how we can make ISLANDERS: New Shores even better. Let us know what you enjoyed & what could be improved from the demo, by filling out our short survey here: ISLANDERS: New Shores Demo Feedback.

Watch the Devs Play the Demo Live!

Want to see the game in action first? Head over to the ISLANDERS: New Shores Steam page where we’ll be displaying the stream throughout the festival. Come watch the Devs play, share their tips and tricks to getting the highest score, and insight into how they made the game! Thanks again for being part of this community - we’re so excited to finally share ISLANDERS: New Shores with you. Let us know what you think, and happy building! 💙 From our Island to yours, we hope you enjoy the demo. The Station

Sandbox, Mac & Linux

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2596d ago

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Hey everyone, we're super excited to introduce Sandbox Mode and bring ISLANDERS to MacOS and Linux!

With this update, we're bringing another bunch of exciting features to ISLANDERS and making it accesible to new players out there. Here's what's new:

Sandbox Mode
MacOS-Support
Linux-Support
Undo Feature
Save/Load System Fix

Sandbox Mode

Introducing Sandbox Mode, a whole new game-mode for ISLANDERS. For this new mode, we've made every building available and removed all placement restrictions so you can go nuts and build whatever you want. We've had tons of fun playtesting this feature and hope you will, too! If you want to make our day, share your creations in the community, we'd love to see what you come up with :) You can access the sandbox mode by pressing the New Game button after finishing at least one highscore match. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34682547/2f13d37fde90e59377511e705287577253e19d1e.jpg https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34682547/3218da49a25dc4d91713610af62ea810c1147685.jpg

MacOS & Linux

We're super happy so finally bring ISLANDERS to players on MacOS and Linux. All of this is a bit new to us, since we're not used to working on Mac or Linux so please let us know if anything doesn't work!

Undo Feature

You've asked and we've listened: This update introduces the much requested undo button which you can use to undo your last building placement. Just click the undo-arrow that will appear in your building inventory after placing a building. Alternatively, you can just press the "Z" key. Undo becomes unavailable when you lose the game or open a new building pack. https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34682547/39ab99e7fb2f5a1838780ae6a54fb3f274179d2e.jpg

Reworked Save/Load System

We've taken some time to completely overhaul the system with which games are saved and loaded. We hope that this will permanently fix all "floating stuff" issues when loading the game. Pray with us and let us know if floating objects still occur.

Endgame Rebalancing

We rebalanced the score required for new buildings in the late game. Our goal with this is to prevent people from playing indefinitely and crashing the game because too many buildings have to be loaded/rendered at once. This change shouldn't have an effect on most players.

Future Planning

We're slowly approaching the point where we feel like everything we wanted to see added to the game has been implemented. There's still some things left but with this update we've crossed most of the big remaining ToDo's off our list. Now we're slowly getting ready to move on to new projects and challenges. This way, we get the chance to start something new, creative and exciting which keeps us motivated and you'll get new games from us. :)

Thank you for being super supportive and encouraging - we are incredibly grateful to have such a positive community. Have fun with the new features and let us know what you think!

Cheers, Friedemann, Paul & Jonas aka GrizzlyGames

CONTENT UPDATE I

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2639d ago

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Hey everybody, we’ve been working on an exciting little content update and are finally ready to share it with you.

We've read through tons of your comments, threads and reviews and with this update we aim to bring you some of the most requested features and increase the gameplay variety of ISLANDERS. This update features:

4 New Buildings
New Island Types
Screenshot Mode & Zoom
Balance Adjustments
Quality of Life Improvements

Thanks for all of your awesome feedback so far. Here is a comprehensive list of all changes we made:

NEW CONTENT

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Buildings Added: Seaweed Pack

The seaweed pack contains seaweed fields which need to be placed on water and the seaweed farms which needs to be placed on land. With this addition we wanted to increase the variety in the early game. The range sphere of the seaweed farm has an offset to allow for some new and interesting placement strategies.

Building Added: Balloon

The balloon is a flying building that gets points from the circus, towers and markets. This will give you a new option in the mid-game and it should be a nice addition to your beautiful city.

Building Added: Monument

The monument is a relatively small building that loves being next to parks and the temple but heavily dislikes fields and hop fields. Why? Cause the gods say so. This is supposed to be a new toy for our most skilled optimizers out there. Let’s see how many points you can squeeze out of this!

New Island Types

As you might know islands in ISLANDERS are procedurally generated so “new island types” just means you’ll see even more variety from now on. Enjoy! :)

Screenshot Mode & Zoom

With this update we’re adding two of the most requested features: Camera zoom and a screenshot mode that hides the ingame UI and cursor. You can enter the screenshot mode by clicking the camera icon in the bottom left corner of the main menu. We love seeing the amazing cities you build, so please keep sharing your screenshots and tag us with @_grizzlygames on Twitter if you post there! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34682547/b7b254139c8253788c6fe5586b857cc5f59ef7a2.png

Balancing Updates

Reduced Wall-collider size to make them easier to place. Walls now have two range-spheres to allow for more visually pleasing placement.
More water plateaus in late-game to decrease chances of running out of space.
Slight rebalancing of Tower to allow for placement on higher ground (because it looks so cool).
Slightly nerfed the “Air Temple” (Temple on Wall Plateaus over cities) by making it more centered in its range sphere but we also increased its range a bit for compensation.

Other Small Changes

Fishers, Warehouses, Plateaus, Breweries, City Centers and Shamans now get points from Seaweed Farms or Seaweed Fields and were rebalanced accordingly.
Mills can now be placed on wooden platforms.
Resort Oasis is a bit easier to place (reduced collider size and allows for more uneven ground).
Jewelry earns 35 instead of 30 points from Gold Mine.
Other small adjustments to incorporate the new buildings.

Quality of Life

Your online highscore is now updated every time you enter the main menu.
Added a safety prompt when clicking “New Game” to avoid losing progress on an active session.
Base score-values for buildings (like the temple's infamous -75) show up in the tooltips now.
Improved score-preview-UI readability. The little score numbers have an outline now.

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/34682547/c7b83a2a0c384f24ccdabffbd0a8d2eef259d983.jpg We’re still humbled and excited to have such a positive and passionate community. Our approach has always been to be open and honest with you and therefore we want to give you a clear idea where we’re headed with ISLANDERS. Our midterm goal is to move on to new exciting projects. We feel like that’s how everybody gets the best deal: We can keep doing what we love with new challenges and you’ll get new games! That being said, we’re listening to your feedback of course and still have a couple of cool things headed your way for ISLANDERS.

Thank you all so much for being such a supportive and positive crowd, keep it up! :)

Cheers, Friedemann, Paul & Jonas aka GrizzlyGames

ISLANDERS news & patch notes

ISLANDERS news & patch notes

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Just some of what’s new in ISLANDERS: New Shores:

We Want Your Feedback!

Watch the Devs Play the Demo Live!

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Preorder your escape today!

Improvements

Bugfixing

Bugs Fixed:

Updates:

Quality of Life improvements:

Bug fixing:

We're excited to announce that ISLANDER is available in 5 new languages!

As always, thank you all for being such a positive and supportive community! :)

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