Meh, had the same reaction. Was pretty excited for this, but I'm definitely not using my Facebook account, and I don't see why that would be so important. I'm not going to spam my Facebook friends. Maybe it's time to make a Facebook account just for gaming. I´m afraid for the developers that this will put off a lot of costumers... Too bad.
By optional do you mean 'don't have to sign in but will miss a huge chunk of the game' or 'all of the game can be played without it'?
You will miss the ability to compete with your FB friends in leaderboards. Possibly also multiplayer features. But thats still TBA. Here is a new screenshot
Please make this as much like animal crossing as possible. Animal crossing is like me of the best adorable at game ever.
ok sounds neat I look forward to this! Thank you for answering my questions, and great job on the game I think it will hit it big. So reminds me of Animal Crossing.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14645742/SocialMedia/Castaway/Screen%20Shot%202013-08-02%20at%209.05.36%20PM.png Here is a new screenshot of Castaway Paradise
when it says develop and decorate your whole island you should show a zoomed out view of what you've made, that would be really cool - especially since its all in 3d!
We'll do that when we release an awesome launch trailer. This was just some footage I took with the in game video recording function
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Next week we're going to announce where we are going to soft-launch Castaway Paradise in! You can still sign up for the beta!