Beasts of Maravilla Island
Beasts of Maravilla Island Joins the Aim & Snap Games Event This Week
In celebration of “World Photography Week”, the event organized by Runaway Play features a selection of photography-focused award-winning games. The Aim & Snap Games event runs from August 19 through August 26 and includes fantastic indie games available at a discount, demos to play, and a chance to win some fantastic prizes.
All of the games participating in the seven-day event feature a camera mechanic as part of the core gameplay. As the rise of camera mechanics in games is celebrated, the event organizers, Runaway Play, hope to highlight the popularity of photography games as a rising sub-genre and connect fans with games they love.
The week-long event includes a giveaway competition, where participants can enter for a chance to win keys from the featured games, including a major prize winner who will receive a key for the eight participating Steam games! Interested entrants can submit their entries by visiting the Aim & Snap official website!
Prominently featuring photography and camera mechanics as core gameplay elements, these featured games belong to a niche sub-genre yet to be officially categorized on gaming platforms – Photography games. Nevertheless, celebrated titles such as TOEM (BAFTA Games Awards), Umurangi Generation (Indie Games Festival), SEASON: A Letter to the Future (BIG Festival), Alba: A Wildlife Adventure (Games For Change Awards) have garnered prestigious gaming awards. All of the participating games have a dedicated and passionate audience, with games like Beasts of Maravilla Island leaving a lasting impression on players and the gaming industry alike. Play the games, say cheese and enjoy the depths of each title, all of which are the perfect experience for aspiring Virtual Photographers!
Check out the week-long event’s official website and search #AimandSnapGames on social media.
Update Notes for 8/29/22
After our first few months of maintainence on Beasts, many of our teammates started new opportunities and things became a lot busier for all of us. Since we are a team thats run by folks who also have full-time work and just did beasts on the side, after completing our big release push for fixes, our work on Beasts slowed down significantly so we could refocus a little bit on our main jobs and responsibilities.
We spent time tinkering here and there throughout the year adding polish, fixing bugs, and adding some acessibility features. We finally are getting it out to you all!
Thank you all for playing our game and for the continued support, and we hope you enjoy this new version of Beasts with more things ironed out and some additional polish added :)
Patch Notes
- Added new acessibility features to the pause menu for brightness and contrast
- Added the ability to read journal pages in high-contrast plain text
- Fixed some wonkiness with certain jumps being difficult to start
- Fixed bug that prevented cursor from disappearing sometimes
- Several polish fixes for incorrect playerposition after cutscenes
- Fixes for cutscene music improperly playing if you loaded in to the final checkpoint
- Fix for "Apology" achievement not completing if you skipped the related cutscene
- Fixes added for the game sometimes freezing up at the tutorial
- Fixed Baby binkeys sometimes not being visible outside of camera mode
- Mitigated issue where sometimes game can crash during credits if players have taken hundreds of photos
- Update to chapter select in beach sometimes not displaying the proper lighting
- Added some more particle effects to Griffin sequences
- Fixes to some occlusion areas being very visually severe
- Fixed some materials not being double sided
- Added ability to reset defaults in settings
- Several small bug fixes tod reduce areas of jitteriness or wonky animal movement
- Tons of tiny fixes to create an overall smoother experience :heart: (edited)
Update Notes for 7/13/21
-No longer possible to get teleported underneath geometry when you open your journal in certain spots
-Fixed issue where Marina could get stuck for a few seconds after she got gusted by the griffin, even though she had returned to her idle animation
-(Hopefully) fixed players being able to get gusted out of the play area in the plateau
-Players who were unable to get the Draguar to gust at the teetering rock should now be able to get him to gust!
-Edge detection refactor (should not run into issues with being able to walk on air or getting stuck on odd branches)
-Fixed issue where marina visibly snapped to the ground every time she returned from being frozen
-Fixed a few jittering creatures in the plateau
-Fixed bugs relating to chapter select sometimes not taking you to the right location
-Birds/Bats should no longer stop in midair during cutscenes
-Areas where occlusion was causing things to flicker fixed
-Fixed issue where players could get caught when climbing down off of the first vine
-Fixed bug where the character could freeze if you opened photobook from camera
-Fixed bug where players could open a broken journal from the photobook
-Fixed issue where if you had two photos and deleted one, it would show the incorrect one as the main photo
-Save file will show correct location even after chapter select
-Fixed small white line on the edge of fullscreen photos
-Fixed issue where final game modal was sometimes really huge on certain sized monitors
-Improved framerate of final cutscene
-Some tweaked level design to help draw attention to certain flowers, climbable vines, and pathways.
-Fixed bug where basilisk lizards could get caught underwater
-Many other tiny bug fixes!
Update Notes for 6/23/21
-Fixed localization issues in Italian and Russian languages
-Fixed issue where player could go underground when checking journal at the end of the game
-Fixed issue where screen would flicker when accessing the photobook from selfie mode
-Improved Optimization
Update Notes for 6/21/21
-Fixed the opening and final cutscene videos not playing for some players
-Fixed issue where Snail could get under spring plants and cause the player to get stuck
-Fixed issue where multiple options were highlighted when you paused the game
-Fixed issue where resolution would get reset every time you loaded into a level when windowed
-Added more barriers around levels to prevent players from getting stuck
-Improved Save System that will always load you into valid areas
-Improved Optimization
-Improved Radar
-Improved trophy rotation
-Improved camera dithering
-Added ability to fast forward credits scroll by pressing any button then holding "Confirm"