During March-July 2007 we decided to recover from the loss of Wicked Mansion by using the left over resources to make a quick casual game. We managed to get the game ready in time for CGDC, however we ran into the exact same issue we ran into with Wicked Mansion, we had no money, we had no one willing to create models and animations for free. So all we had to use were the models and animations Eric Nadeau kindly passed to us from his ventures with Biyu Biyu Rocket. As good as the artist was who made the animations for free in his early years of experience, when he made them they weren’t made with a high level of quality, they were quite bad. So now we faced the problem of making enemies with personalities, attacks and defences completely based on one or two of these low quality animations they came with. We did a good job with what we had and they look alright. It severely limited us in making bosses, unique enemies and whole bunch of other things we would have liked to have done. So once the game hit completion there was a lack of desire to polish it or extend it from where it’s currently at now. From my point of view it’s a watered down game from it’s potential but fun none the less. Rather than having it sit around collecting dust we’ve released it for free, please enjoy

Download Monster Island

Yes there are bugs, some solutions are found in the readme.txt file.

David

PS: Don’t forget to check out David Stevenson’s interview, he is the voice of Axys and is now in a really awesome band named Manic Bloom.

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