The game is finally available for download on itch.io! We’re working on getting the game into other stores, such as Desura and the offical Oculus Share, but for now you can download it here: http://kaorin.itch.io/black-island itch.io is super easy to use and has been positively surprising me all the way! Definitely recommended! 🙂
We are proud to announce that Black Island is finally finished! The game is uploaded to desura.com and itch.io and will be available as soon as they process it. While you wait, here are our presstext and screenshots: Presstext: http://sdrv.ms/1hA3aDl Screenshots: http://sdrv.ms/1aOczSR Logo: http://sdrv.ms/1hA3hyT More media will follow! Enjoy! 🙂
While our Indiegogo campaign is still running , we’re hard at work to create new, interesting areas for the game! In traditional games, you tend to only look around on the horizontal axis. That’s because the action is happening there, and you need to react quickly, so you don’t have time look away. But with Read More …
Yay, we have started our indiegogo campaign , please help us make Black Island the most terrifying(ly good) game for Oculus VR (also playable on standard PC/MAC). Naturally we made some trailers, here is our in-game trailer you can find the campaign trailer with additional information on indiegogo, watch if you want to see the Read More …
Find us and other Swiss game developers on the IGDA Lists of Excellence.
The SRF (Swiss Radio and Television) interviewed us about Oculus Rift and Black Island. You can find their whole podcast here (the interview starts at about 19:50): http://www.srf.ch/sendungen/digital-plus/virtuelle-welten-reale-gefahren-und-viel-gemuese It’s only available in German.
Look at this shiny, new set of business cards! We’ll be handing them out at GDC and Gamescom this year!
We released a demo beginning of June, which got some nice feedback in the Oculus Forums and many other places: https://developer.oculusvr.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=2630 Some nice guy even made a little video about it: If you want to get the demo too, just download it via torrent here:Â http://sebastiantobler.com/blackisland_alphademo.torrent If you read this after GDC, please be aware Read More …
A bit (very) late, but here’s a little something about the demo night on June 26th. http://igda.ch/2013/05/game-demo-night We had a lot of test players and very positive feedback. But there were also a lot of suggestions on what to improve, which is exactly what these nights are for. The other games were super cool, as Read More …
