TextCraft: Alpha Island

External Links

AlphaIsland-v1-04.jar
This is the standard version that should work for most people. The font size is chosen to fit your screen but there have been some reports of the font being too small.
Defaults - All Systems Application
Large-Font-AlphaIsland-v1-04.jar
This version uses a large font size for larger screens (such as 4k displays). Using it on an older monitor or laptop screen will probably cause layout issues, as the window won't fit in your display.
Defaults - All Systems Application
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About the Story

You talked big. Now prove it. Survive for a week on Alpha Island with no equipment save a pair of khaki shorts and a cell phone. Bear witness to escalating physical surreality as you come to understand your altered course. Brave dehydration, hunger, and intense weather in a daily struggle to make use of your environment. Build and customize Alpha Island into your home in this real-time, crafting-based, sci-fi adventure game.

To play you may need to right click and select "open" or "open with Java". You also might need to install/update Java. Visit the wiki (contains separate spoiler-free and spoiler sections)

Awards

57th Place - 23rd Annual Interactive Fiction Competition (2017)

Ratings and Reviews

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based on 6 ratings
Number of Reviews Written by IFDB Members: 1

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

A live-action parser survival crafting game, October 23, 2017*

by MathBrush

Related reviews: about 2 hours

I beta tested this game.

This is an interesting concept: a Java game (just like minecraft!) which is a parser game with a real-time timer.

You find resources, and craft materials with them.

As it is, the game is difficult; however, a Wiki is provided that is especially helpful.

However, the difficulty was tuned just a bit too hard for me, and that made it hard for me to get sucked in.

* This review was last edited on November 16, 2017

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Game Details

Language: English (en)
First Publication Date: October 1, 2017
Current Version: 1.04
License: Freeware
Development System: Java
IFID: Unknown
TUID: 3smc797y5bywzi1