‘Shaki Shaki Island’ is About Drawing the Issues Round You

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

Created as a part of the Sport Off 2024 sport jam, Shaki Shaki Island is a deceptively good ‘sketch-em up’ that basically pushes expectations via its dual-interfaces. On this sport, 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 trying to gather secrets and techniques. Nevertheless, most of your interactions will probably be completed via doodling stuff you see round you on the planet.

Doodling, on this case, means choosing certainly one of three colors to 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 once you handle to transform the ‘world’ occasion onto the palette, even when it does take slightly little bit of getting used to.

The principle motive that it would take slightly 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 usually are not 8×8, as a substitute being (probably) 16×16. As soon as it’s clicked although — and that can have nearly actually occurred by the point you’ve sketched the primary 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. 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 (without spending a dime) on itch.io.

About The Writer

Dann Sullivan

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