The Island is my 7DRL submission for 2025, a HTML5 game that you can play in your web browser. This is an incomplete entry due to me over-scoping what I could realistically accomplish in a week but there is a small dose of gameplay, around 10-20 minutes, albeit with just a handful of the intended mechanics. No combat, hunting, fishing, inventories, etc.

The Island is a survival-style roguelike adventure game. The key idea is that the Island will evolve outside of your control as you play. Unfortunately, you will only see a snippet of that towards the end of the game. 

On the technical side, I did implement a voxel rendering system in the Canvas, which was a fun exercise although there are still a few gremlins in the implementation. Currently the game requires a keyboard to play but I will eventually add touch controls.

Keyboard controls: W/A/S/D to move, SPACE to pause, bump into things to interact with them.

Acknowledgements: A big inspiration for the design is Ignacy Trzewiczek's Robinson Crusoe board game, especially the event system. Thanks also to Kenney for his micro roguelike pixel-art pack, which I customized slightly.

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