Procedural Island Happiness

by nonatomicpaul

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.12

Fun★★★★★★★★★★1.51

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★2.48

Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.60

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.99

Audio★★★★★★★★★★1.17

Humor★★★★★★★★★★1.64

Mood★★★★★★★★★★1.82

Coolness★★★★★★★★★★14%

"Procedural Island Happiness" is a procedurally generated, island terrain sim. Equipped with ghost ship, homing buoys and world rotation.

Minimal rules and minimal skill required.

Soak up the sun and cast off your Seasonal Affective Disorder in this nautical sea faring adventure. Who needs Majorca when you can play "Procedural Island Happiness"

Warning procedural map generation may be to much fun for the elderly to handle.

Comments35

neight30 Apr 2013, 02:46

As advertised.

Zathalos30 Apr 2013, 02:47

Not much to do here. Cool tech though. Add some gameplay in like fighting other ships and it'll be great. Good try though.

qdowngames30 Apr 2013, 02:55

Hmmm. Nice islands but no much else I suppose. Great start!

CloudiestNights30 Apr 2013, 03:26

Quite a happy amount of islands! Not a lot to do, but that's what the instructions say.

tcstyle30 Apr 2013, 04:47

Not a game yet, but interesting start for a level generator.
The ship has some strange behaviour.

donan30 Apr 2013, 07:16

Quite a good generator, but as stated before, not a game yet :)

lotusgame30 Apr 2013, 08:59

To strange, don't know if it is a game. Nice minecraft cubes :)

Beardbotnik30 Apr 2013, 09:00

It's a pretty cool proof of concepts, procedural land for a game where you sale sounds fun. Though with no sound and no collisions it is a little hard to play for very long I think. Even a looping sound of seagulls and waves could really add a lot to the atmosphere. Tech wise I think it's fantastic though, and quite amazing that the generation animation could function through the web player!

AirRider330 Apr 2013, 09:03

It's a shame there's no much to do.

GeorgeBroussard30 Apr 2013, 09:25

More of a tech demo but something you can maybe build on.

lasergans30 Apr 2013, 09:44

As advertised more a simulation than a game.

nixeldev30 Apr 2013, 10:05

Very impressive tech, awesome stuff. Gameplay certainly follows the theme ;)

Mago30 Apr 2013, 12:05

Not much to do here. Nice islands though.

kbm030 Apr 2013, 12:21

The aesthetics are nice, although there is not much to do yet.

Tipyx30 Apr 2013, 12:23

Cool tech, but not very funny :)

Jacques_le_lezard30 Apr 2013, 12:24

Like the idea, but sad that you go through the island ...and no any goal =/ Good work, but not a game yet!

delanghe30 Apr 2013, 12:30

beautiful game,but what is the principle ?

blackmagic30 Apr 2013, 13:10

Nice engine but hard to understand the game itself :)

AestheticGamer30 Apr 2013, 14:34

Fun to look at, but not really much to it. There also are weird clipping issues with the ship going through islands and sinking whenever it hits a checkpoint.

boboKat30 Apr 2013, 15:08

interesting start. the boat tends to run into the land before I can get to it. I like the way the land forms at the start.

Roffe30 Apr 2013, 15:08

looks like a promising start for something, but as is it feels empty

Diamonde30 Apr 2013, 16:01

I like the style and I had hoped to be able to play with the world some more. I think this kind of playground can be much further explored, because it's really cool and minimalistic! :)

EdoMiyamoto30 Apr 2013, 16:21

Nice islands that's true

belickim30 Apr 2013, 16:48

I really hoped islands are destructible :(
Are you planning to make it more game-like?

Jubjub.30 Apr 2013, 16:57

I like the graphics, and moving my ship around for a while was fun, but I don't really know what else to do haha. I'm not sure if I'd classify it as a game per se, but it's definitely minimal.

Sylvain.p30 Apr 2013, 17:06

Shame about the lack of game because the "terraforming" is good.

PTSnoop30 Apr 2013, 19:35

Quite an intriguing toy-thing. Is it a game? I'll let the experts debate that one. :)

Jiddo30 Apr 2013, 20:56

I like how it looks. There seems to be a bug with the ship reaching the red destination markers and turning vertical, facing upwards. I tried the web version, so I don't know if it's because of Unity's web player. Also the ship was moving through the islands and not around them. But I really like games with ships, so I enjoyed quite alot directing the little ship around the environment.

JohnnySix30 Apr 2013, 21:13

Liked the tech - as others have said, some kind of simplistic gameplay element would have been a nice addition. The ship also appeared to sink when hitting the buoys. :O