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Here’s a theroy for your game sky island:
I was thinking earlier in the car that this game somewhat is like street arrows. youre probably thinking what the hell but hear me out. if one arrow is pointing up on the 2d sign then you’re going forwards in third dimensional space/time. Same as arrows pointing down. So if you jump up on this game in 2d mode then the 3d part of the game compressed in the second dimensional plane means that you are propelling yourself forward in the 3rd deminsional plane. Please make another one.

This morning, I had a couple of minutes to spare before I had to report to the office I work at. I decided to take a look in the new games section of Kongregate, and found a little title named ‘Sky Island’. At first, it looked like a generic platformer. I remember hearing myself think “meh, at least someone put up the effort to include a soundtrack.” Still, I liked the artstyle and therefore decided to try it out for a little while.

What happened then is almost indescribable. The game told me to click and move my mouse, and in following said instruction something inside my mind snapped. I remember sitting there for fifteen minutes trying to wrap my head around what had just happened, realizing that a feeling like that had not occured in me for a very long time.

When I finally regained my ability to move, I found myself playing the first couple of levels, amazed at the concept and the very smooth learning curve of the game. Looking at the built-in clock of my computer I noticed I was getting late, so I had to quit. The only thing I could do – after completing one more level – was search for a 6th star, reluctantly hit the 5th star, adding the game to my favourites and promising myself that I would get back to this after work was done. All day in the office I couldn’t resist thinking of that little gem I found, thinking of interesting applications in leveldesign, and how this technique would impact gameplay.

When I got home, I took a sprint towards my computer, booted up my browser and started the game again. To my further amazement, all those little things I thought of did end up in the final set of levels. The game also did not fall into a pitfall that so many other puzzly games tend to end up in, namely the last levels being way too hard to perform or becoming a speed/luck challenge rather than a logic/skill test.

Congratulations on making this awesome creation a reality, and thank you very much for making my day.

Man, I’m speechless. It’s the first time that I try to post something to the developer of a game.
The concept about Sky Island, it’s simply AMAZING! It must have been the hell to program all this “3D” universe.
I was like, “Oh… another plataform game, weel let’s play a little more, how am I supposed to get that white star? Use your mouse huh? Ok. HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLYYYYYYYYY MOOOOOOOOTHER!”

Seriously man, congratulations.