‘Shaki Shaki Island’ is About Drawing the Things Around You

Shaki Shaki Island is a good looking Recreation Boy-style journey the place you need to use your inventive expertise to redraw sprites to progress.

Created as a part of the Recreation Off 2024 recreation jam, Shaki Shaki Island is a deceptively sensible ‘sketch-em up’ that actually pushes expectations via its dual-interfaces. On this recreation, you’ll journey to a distant island geared up 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. Nevertheless, most of your interactions can be executed via doodling stuff you see round you on the planet.

Doodling, on this case, means choosing 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 on the planet then one thing will occur. No matter 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 primary purpose that it’d 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 on the planet aren’t 8×8, as an alternative being (presumably) 16×16. As soon as it’s clicked although — and that may have nearly definitely occurred by the point you’ve sketched the primary couple of flowers — it feels actually, actually satisfying and, critically, cool. It’s extremely straightforward to lose your self in Shaki Shaki Island‘s whimsy.

At current there’s no definitive finish. Nevertheless, with 22 issues to sketch there’s greater than sufficient there to lose your self for some time. That stated, the developer has stated that they’re planning on including extra content material, together with an ending, to it in time.

Shaki Shaki Island is playable now (totally free) on itch.io.

About The Creator

Dann Sullivan

After nearly a decade of promoting video games, Dann determined to strive his hand at writing about them as an alternative. Just a few years in and he’s the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Massive Boss Battle, the place he and his staff cowl video games of all styles and sizes. When not within the function, he can usually be discovered looking for out small, memorable recreation experiences.