We've contacted Stolen Couch Games for its take on how much Nintendo inspired the game. It's not the first mobile game we've seen which owes a debt to Animal Crossing - free-to-play iOS and Android title Happy Street has also been widely compared to Nintendo's series. There's also a farming mechanic, which looks similar to Harvest Moon. Unlike Animal Crossing, the game features a free-to-play economy which you pay for in real-world cash. A UK date has yet to be announced.įamilyGamerTV has recorded a look at some of the game's features in the video below - note the similarity to Animal Crossing even in Castaway Paradise's animations for fishing and swinging your bug net. The product of Stolen Couch Games, Castaway Paradise has been given a soft launch on the iOS App Store in Canada, Australia and Vietnam. It sounds and looks a lot like Nintendo's Animal Crossing. ORIGINAL STORY 20/6/14 4.15pm Have you heard about Castaway Paradise? It's a life simulation set in a bright, stylised village where you live with anthropomorphic animals, catch fish, collect bugs and help out your neighbours. "I hope everyone will check out Castaway Paradise and let us know what they think of the game, when it launches later this year." There are many differences between the before mentioned games and Castaway Paradise. We're even considering bringing Castaway Paradise to the Wii U. We've showed Castaway Paradise to them and everything is fine. All I can say it that we've been talking to Nintendo for years. "Some people are concerned of Nintendo's opinion of our game. The team has even considered bringing the free-to-play life sim to Wii U, Diepeveen continued. We've taken the best aspects of life simulators and improved and expanded on these aspects." "What we tried to do is create an experience similar to those games but for all platforms, including mobile and Steam. "Animal Crossing, Harvest Moon and The Sims are all inspirations for Castaway Paradise," Stolen Couch co-founder Eric Diepeveen told Eurogamer. In this game, you wash up on a desert island populated by weird animal critters, and immediately set out to beautify your new. While fans of Animal Crossing won’t be unfamiliar with having to wait around (the series implements a 24-hour day/night cycle with new items and quests available each calendar day at certain hours only), it remains to be seen how players will feel about Stolen Couch’s attempts to monetize such a classic aspect of the Nintendo series.Ĭastaway Paradise is currently only available on the Amazon App store, with no word on when or if it will appear on Google Play.UPDATE 23/6/14 2.15pm Castaway Paradise developer Stolen Couch Games has told Eurogamer that Nintendo is aware of the game and "everything is fine" - despite its similarities to Animal Crossing. Castaway Paradise is a town-building game from Stolen Couch Games. The FTP elements takes the form of limiting item usage with recharge periods and wait times for activities like construction and growing plants, both of which can be skipped using collectibles or the in-game currency, pearls. That said there are differences between them, the key one being Castaway Paradise’s implementation of a free-to-play structure. The island of Castaway Paradise even has a museum to house the more valuable items you find on your travels. There are plenty of insects and fish that can be caught and sold, flowers and fruit trees that must be nurtured to harvest, and the trash and artifacts that litter the island, waiting to be found. The most apparent is how gameplay is structured, with the player helping build a thriving community by helping the local villagers, who also all happen to be animals, while developing relationships with them through dialogue. Developers Stolen Couch have put in a lot of work during that time to recreate the style of Nintendo’s long running series, and there are more than a few similarities. Initially announced in 2012 with a 2013 release date, the title has been in works for over two years. Likened to Nintendo’s Animal Crossing series, in which players carry out everyday activities and undertake quests in an effort to redevelop Tan Island community after it’s been hit by a tropical storm. Castaway Paradise is a casual simulation game that recently arrived on the Amazon App store.
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