Kingdom of Islands
A downloadable game for Windows
Kingdom of Islands is a singleplayer Casual 2D Tycoon Game where you start a Kingdom by building Industries, and earn money.
EP01 - Health&Hospitals
EP02 - Crime Control
Version History
Kingdom of Island 1.0.0 - January 4th 2023 - Game realesed
Kingdom of Island 1.0.1 - January 6th 2023 - Fixed glitch where after opening a save game, it would replace objects
Kingdom of Island 1.0.2 - January 9th 2023 - Instead of manually putting the save game code in a document to save it, it does it automatically using the PHP save system.
Kingdom of Island 1.0.3 - January 15th 2023 - Instead of pressing 1 and 2 to scroll up and down, you use the mouse wheel. Instead of the mouse cursor only being in the game and not on any menus, the custom cursor is everywhere, on menus and in game. It also shrinked in size a little. Also, instead of when it is being scrolled down, it would only increase see more of the bottom and in the right, you can see more of the bottom, of the top, of the left and the right. Also, you can create mods in ingame files, and install them through putting them in ingame files.
Kingdom of Island 1.0.4 - February 26th 2023 - Introduced Edge scrolling, you can put your mouse on the edge of the screen and it will scroll there. Use tags instead of names to recognise different object. This fixed a lot of bugs but might make old save games malfunction. Change the game ui to blue instead of plain white, giving it some style. Added a new scroll bar. Changed the height limit of the menu into only one row, use the scroll bar to see the rest. Changed trash processing center to landfill (in name). Changed background of all the object list into a dark gray translucent background, added the stats menu to see change overtime for money, population and profits from resources. Made main menu button blue when hovered over, made main menu button go up smoothly when hovered over. Changed the example kingdom to make it suitable for the new version of kingdom of island to read and not malfunction. Added death to game. Citizens will pass away after a while, and will be replaced by new citizens.
Kingdom of Island 1.0.5 - May 13th 2023 - Added Cheats Console (Press C to unlock). Created a Menu bar for selecting Map. Made Game compatible for creating new Map. Added Name to Original Island (Saint Wrights Island). Added building water. Cannot build over buildings. Added notification bar.
Kingdom of Island 1.1.0 - June 25th 2023 - Health&Hospitals DLC added, 6 new objects (Gym, Pool, Park, Hospital, Clinic, Graveyard). Epidemics (once every ten years) and Flu seasons (once a year) now occur. FPS added to title of Game. Save System fixed. PHP no longer required to save. Electron used instead. Music removed. Quit Game button removed. Added new Map (Maple Leaf Lake). Death system completely changed. Disease can be the only cause of death. Sick rate depends on if there is a pandemic or if many people are sick. Seconds per day setting removed. Volume slider added in settings. Game starts in 800x600 resolution when opened, can be changed by maximising.
Kingdom of Island 1.1.1 - June 28th 2023 - Added Ingame Menu Bar, putting already existing save game and exit game, adding Main Menu, resume game, and option bar. FPS currently disabled in game, but can be turned on in ingame options. Added kingdom of Island beginner guide, teaching how to start a game, building essential buildings and saving the game. Game starts in 1920x1080. Pandemic and sickrate gets saved so pandemics dont end when you open and close the game.
Kingdom of Island 1.1.2 - July 3rd 2023 - Fixed the save menu...again. Added a setting for edge scrolling.
Kingdom of Island 1.1.3 - August 26th 2023 - Fixed the pandemic occurence so instead of having it occur every 101 days, it can never occur. Made cheats be turned on or off in the save game menu, to prevent you from cheating if you want to create a non cheat game. Added a cheats help guide. Menu can be shwon by pressing 'M'. Removed the welcome to kingdom of island sign when making a new save. Data gets transferred through a file instead of through the link for less bugs when opening a game.
Kingdom of Island 1.1.4 - October 14th 2023 - Added a help guide for cheating in the game. Readded music into the game. Now there is a menu music, and then there are ingame music. Also when you go into a game, it starts off by playing bird chirping music.
Kingdom of Island 1.1.5 - November 1st 2023 - Added a Income tab and Expenses tab in the statistics menu of the game. Added a volume change setting in the options system in the game to change the volume, removed the options from the main menu. Added the quit bar in the main menu. When opening the game, a new intro will come, showing Miscos new logo and showing the games new logo. Game logo on the main menu has been replaced by the new one, credits has been changed showing the credits for all the music. Added a better, more informative cheat guide. Added the delete button in the game so you can delete buildings.
Kingdom of Island 1.1.6 - December 15th 2023 - New high definition cursor, main menu was redesigned. DLC now shows the DLC promo pic instead of the name of the dlc. New mouse cursor when hovering over objects. Instead of showing FPS a new informative stats for nerds option. New Help button in main menu. Added a finance button. Added ability to take out loans, and added ability to sell stock. Added language selection (Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi, Korean, Japanese and Russian). Added noise when hovering over buttons in main menu.
Kingdom of Island 1.2.0 - January 1st 2024 - Added a new expansion pack called Crime control with 6 new buildings: Mental Hospital, Prison, Maximum Security Prison, Police station, police headquarters, drug rehab center. There are now criminals, violent criminals and people addicted to drugs. Added 3 new charts, sickness, criminals and violent criminals and people on drugs (in one chart) and the hapiness rate. Added a new map called Goose Green Archipeligo. Fixed a bug where in the hospitals wouldnt work. Fixed a bug where multiple save games would appear per saved games in the save game menu. Added a FPS graph in the stats for nerd section of the game. Optomised the game significantly changing it from 10fps to around 40 to 100 fps (depending on the zoom and amount of objects).
Kingdom of Island 1.2.1 - February 3rd 2024 - Made edgescrolling not occur when you are on the menu. Limited the size of the map, to avoid getting lost. Added a delta time stat on the stats for nerds menu. Changed the rarity of the rebellion message and made it have more inequality to occur. Changed the text of the rebellion message. Prevented the game from moving when you are typing something in. Main menu is optimized to prevent a slowdown when opening a menu. PDF guide now closable when you open the help guide. Made the quantity of the not enough workforce message not appear/reappear everyday if you're workforce is low. Made when hovering over the build menu, movement will be stopped incase you are using the scrollbar. Prevented the game from scrolling in and out when you are using you're mouse to scroll in the buildmenu. Changed "save and quit" into just "save". You cannot save with a blank name.
Kingdom of Island 1.2.2 - February 6th 2024 - Emergency update because of game breaking bug. Fixed glitch where screen would randomely freeze. Fixed glitch where game would randomely not be able to move because of faulty code causing movement permissions to glitch out. Added a new load game menu on the main menu, with a picture of the state of your island. Readded the blur affects to the menu in the main menu screen.
Kingdom of Island 1.2.3 - March 10th 2024 - Added a smiley face on the hapiness statistics. Added an option to change Max FPS. Added an optimised boot system where all assets are being loaded before entering a save game. You can now press P to pause the game. Added an error display if an error has been found in the game.
Note from Author
Hello, I know this games art style might seem bad, and I truly apologize if the product is not good or what you expect. This is my first game, and I'm only 14 and I have to work a lot on it to make it good! Thanks for understanding - Conner (maker of Misco)
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Install instructions
1. Install the file
2. Open the file
3. Go through Setup
4. Play
At least 400MB of free space is required to play (1.0.2)
From 1.0.2 onwards, it requires PHP to function properly. Don't worry. PHP will be preinstalled in the installer and uninstalled when the game is uninstalled. Don't close PHP when you open the app, but close it when you have quit the game.
Hello, new note. From 1.1.0 onwards. PHP is no longer required to play the game. PHP is still in game files, but will be removed in later game files once we move on with this transition. Electron is now used to save game files.
Comments
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Hi. I saw you post on reddit before it got taken down(it was because of rule 4 btw, tough luck) and decided to have a look at it.
First impressions - The graphics. You know it, I know it. When people see graphics like the ones in your game they'll most likely just scroll past it. If you want your game to be given the time of day you'll have to polish it up significantly. Here's my advice regarding that:
Itch.io asset store! its full of free/inexpensive assets you can use for your game
Lospec.com is a great site for learning and making pixel art - a medium perfect for starter games such as yours
Commissioning an artist (If you can afford it)
The start screen - Just after booting up the game i could see lots of room for improvement, heres some things i've taken note of that you should consider working on:
Playing the game - This is the point where i started taking notes on how it felt play the game
Navigation
Other games - There's this game called The Wandering Village that i think you should take a look at, not to compare to your own game of course, that team has been at it for years and have way more resources than you. but i do think you should take note of its mechanics, and how they do those mechanics as well as they do. What I like about the Wandering Village is how easy it is to get a hang of it, when villagers are dying it's easy to find out why, and making them stop is the challenging part. If you want to keep making city builders I’d highly recommend really analyzing what city building games are as fun as they are.
Sorry if I'm being a bit harsh on you. But tell you this, no one’s first game is ever good. That's pretty much a fact among game devs. There's just no way around that. Your first ever game is always always bad. The good thing about that though is that you only make one first game, so no matter what you do your second game will always be an improvement. i can't guarantee that your second game will be good either though, or your third… or fourth. But it will always be an improvement. I sense you have a real passion for games, and I sincerely hope you read this comment as a positive one and keep making games. Don’t be too tough on yourself, there's still a long road ahead.
Hi!
Thank you for your review, I truly appreciate it. I will try and update all the problems in next months update.
Regarding the art, I will try and find a good way to create good looking 2D art from an above perspective.
Thank you for trying my game and submitting your feedback. Programming and game development is truly my passion and your feedback helps be become better at developing games!