Post-Mortem: Isle Of Spirits, a survival game designed for casual gamers
Isle Of Spirits is a casual oriented survival game released on PC/Xbox One . I will tell you how I designed Isle of Spirits to offer a unique survival game experience to be played casually so that this kind of game is accessible to all players , mostly those who don't play games frequently. How the idea emerged I was playing some survival games like Don’t Starve when I ended up to be a little frustrated because the games didn’t let me play peacefully and casually, and was so hard for me. I asked myself, is there any survival game for casual gamers ? I started thinking about how a survival game could reach an often forgotten public of this genre. The technical choices Before starting coding for months, I started to design the core gameplay and the different ambiances of the game. First, the 3C (camera / controller / character). I liked the view we get in some games like “The Sims” or “Animal Crossing”. Casual gamers are not often comfortable managing themselves the camera. I chose