Boklin - The island of the Dead
A downloadable game for Windows
A 1st person adventure game with puzzles, made in 2-3 days for Yaz Jam 5.
You are the soul of a man who awakens on the small island of Boklin. You are alone. The island is mysterious: the cypress trees are bent like by wind, but there is no wind and the trees don’t move. No seagull. The waves of the surrounded sea are static, as if the whole world was in pause. There doesn’t seem to be anything at the horizon, no continent, no other island, even no time… What are you going to do?
Hold shift to run
Please check the Mini Guide if you get stuck with the puzzles.
Credits
Created by Simon Mesnard
Based on the art of Arnold Böcklin
Thanks to Juanjo Barcelo Molina
Music by Eric Matyas
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Development log
- Mini guide26 days ago
Comments
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I finally played it. :D Congrats for finishing this game, Simon. It's beautiful and unique and I love this kind of projects. While the puzzles are not for me, I managed to "crack" the generators puzzle by brute forcing/just trying different combinations. I know this isn't supposed to work that way, but I have low patience when it comes to maths. I wasn't able to solve the colors / numbers puzzle even with the mini guide, but I saved the game for now and will try it again on another day. Your island of the dead interpretation is really interesting and I would actually like to see more of such experiments. But I am also looking forward to whatever's next, because your creativity in game dev is so fresh and unpredictable.
Thanks Hexenwerk for your kind words! I hope too that what comes next will be interesting (it's difficult to renew ideas and stay "fresh and unpredictable" over the years ^_^), but at least I am quite happy with what I did here on Boklin, even if it's not perfect.
If you "cracked" the generator puzzle instead of solving the puzzle normally, that's fine for me. There can be several ways of solving a puzzle, and the most important is to find a solution to progress in the adventure!
The colors and numbers puzzle is not very difficult in fact (it is the last puzzle in the game), you just have to be sure that you gathered all the clues found previously - Spoiler: The plan of the temple, the columns with their colors, the code on the portal at the center of the island, and the color code on the paper with the 0 to 9 digits). Just make the link between the colors, their position with the roman numbers, and the value in digits, and you should get a code to enter in the temple.
I'm glad you liked my interpretation of the painting! It was fun to recreate my own version of it for the game. All credits for using this specific and inspiring painting go to @BlurredGames (Juanjo).
already stuck at the first puzzle ! I know I have to convert some code, OK, but I can't figure out how I am supposed to understand the temple numbers paper and exctract the source code from it. (as the other code does not work)
Hi! Thanks for playing! The game is not easy. I hope this helps: https://the-icehouse.itch.io/boklin/devlog/823127/mini-guide
thank you for the hints ! :D I'll go on and investigate !