Volcano Island HD Once a quiet peaceful heaven, our island is now under the threat of its volcano. Your task is to move the inhabitants to… $0.99 Buy Now Watch Media DetailsOnce a quiet peaceful heaven, our island is now under the threat of its volcano. Your task is to move the inhabitants to safer places. Volcano Island is a turn-based strategy game. Before the eruption of the volcano, the island is gradually sinking beneath the ocean. Your challenges are wandering sharks and octopuses. Also there are some people who can't swim. You should accompany them with swimming ones.Each task is composed of 3 levels. In each level, you have different challenges and tools. And there are 5 different islands to play with. We know that the game rules are not easy to learn at once. To make things a bit easier, we provided a very comprehensive and easy-to-read help. Volcano Island is one of the few sophisticated games on mobile platform that can provide you the lasting fun and playing experience even after months or years of playing. Save the islanders before the eruption!----------Your five star reviews motivate us for more updates and games.You can follow us on Facebook and Twitter.http://www.facebook.com/pages/Volcano-Island/194413850612818http://twitter.com/#!/VolcanoIslandHDFor all questions and feedback please write to [email protected]----------- Information Seller: Genre:Board, Strategy Release:Jul 17, 2011 Updated:Nov 30, -0001 Version: Size:0.0 TouchArcade Rating:Unrated User Rating: (5) Your Rating:unrated Compatibility:HD Universal The rules of the contest: 0. Volcano Island is a turn-based strategy game. This is a special genre. The game is extremely fun to play and very addictive once you get all the rules. Some people love this genre, and some people hate it. If it's not type of your game, you can just leave it. 1. Download Volcano Island from the App Store and play the game Paid Version : http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/volcano-island-hd/id449447895?mt=8 Lite Version : http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/volcano-island-hd-lite/id449448328?mt=8 2. Leave an honest review for Volcano Island on the iTunes. If you reviewed before, just update it. 3. Post your iTunes nickname in this thread along with your comments. Also indicate which country's store you made the review. You're free to make a review other than US market, but keep in mind that the gift coupon is for US Store. 4. One person will be chosen randomly to win a $25 iTunes AppStore Gift Card (US Store only !!!) 5. This contest is mainly focused on iPad version of Volcano Island. We discovered a bug related to iPod Touch 4th gen, and a fix is on the way; so we wanted to keep iPhone thing separate for this time. If your version runs smoothly, you're welcome to participate. Also, there will be another prize for iPhone version soon. 6. You can review the Lite or Paid versions. It's up to you. 7. Contest ends: 29 August 2011, 18:00 GMT If you want to review for the paid version you can request a promo code. I have 10 or so codes in hand, and I'll try to provide codes for those who need them. iANiMeX Well-Known Member Jun 10, 2011 3,106 1 38 Male Bum Philippines #2 iANiMeX, Aug 22, 2011 Can I have a promo code for this game? Thanks in advance. stevenc89 Well-Known Member Aug 15, 2011 430 0 0 #3 stevenc89, Aug 22, 2011 I love strategy game! I would like to have a promo code~ Nice contest anyway. : ) Nishimare Well-Known Member May 19, 2011 183 0 0 Freelance Model , Full time ShoppEr iN YoUr HeArT~ #4 Nishimare, Aug 22, 2011 Volcano Island HD Promo Code Hi , i would like to request a promo code if there is any left. Thank you for your generousity for providing the code and contest bem69 Well-Known Member Oct 20, 2010 712 0 16 #5 bem69, Aug 22, 2011 I'd like a promo code to review. Thanks! m13 Well-Known Member Feb 5, 2011 1,622 7 38 http://iosdevelopmentandbetatesting.blogspot.com/ #6 m13, Aug 22, 2011 I would like a promo code and review both versions. Thanks. autumnray Well-Known Member Jun 18, 2011 85 0 0 #7 autumnray, Aug 22, 2011 I would like a promo code to review. thx! Tango Well-Known Member Sep 11, 2010 455 0 16 #8 Tango, Aug 22, 2011 I would like a promo code to review please! Rokrdude Well-Known Member May 14, 2011 1,286 0 36 #9 Rokrdude, Aug 22, 2011 I would love a promo code Thanks! SupercrazY Well-Known Member Feb 11, 2010 257 0 0 #10 SupercrazY, Aug 22, 2011 from the screenshots it looks like a big game i would really appreciate if y would get a promo code flameon Well-Known Member Jul 26, 2011 1,172 0 0 #11 flameon, Aug 22, 2011 I actually have volcano island on my itouch is it ok if i review that? :/ Rokrdude Well-Known Member May 14, 2011 1,286 0 36 #12 Rokrdude, Aug 22, 2011 Reviewed as Rokrdude2 on U.S. appstore Agas Well-Known Member Jan 28, 2011 2,347 0 0 #13 Agas, Aug 22, 2011 Saw the articles on videogamegeek.com and really want it. Don't have iPad though, so maybe you have iphone code for the upcoming contest. Thanks. BilginEsme Well-Known Member Aug 1, 2011 138 0 0 http://bilgin.esme.org/ #14 BilginEsme, Aug 22, 2011 OK We discovered a bug related to iPod Touch 4th gen, and a fix is on the way; so I wanted to keep iPhone thing separate for this time. If your version runs smoothly, you're welcome to make a review, I can add you to the list. BilginEsme Well-Known Member Aug 1, 2011 138 0 0 http://bilgin.esme.org/ #15 BilginEsme, Aug 22, 2011 I'll continue tomorrow It's sleep time for our hemisphere, so I'll continue to follow up requests tomorrow morning 23 Aug 10:00 GMT. yys Member Aug 19, 2011 22 0 0 #16 yys, Aug 22, 2011 i would like to try this game autumnray Well-Known Member Jun 18, 2011 85 0 0 #17 autumnray, Aug 23, 2011 Last edited: Aug 23, 2011 Reviewed as ronan ray on U.S. appstore. thx! araczynski Well-Known Member Oct 5, 2009 1,467 0 36 programmer omaha, ne #18 araczynski, Aug 23, 2011 reviewed the lite as myself. good luck to whoever wins, won't be me but honest feedback is honest feedback. ========== Tried this on a whim. Seems like a decent game for those that like strategy board games with a generous sprinkling of randomness. The premise appears to be moving people around a hex grid (parts of an island) before the island disappears completely, and onto boats for rescue. Of course the waters are infested with sharks and octopus which can eat life boats and swimmers, not to mention some people can't swim in the first place. Overall a nice game, although seems a bit bland in the art department, probably a programmer did the art Not so much the art, but more the lack of fluid animations. Also, the playscreen has a strange squished/vertical look to it. almost as if a direct port from some other device. And no, I probably couldn't do better myself, I'm a programmer as well ============= m13 Well-Known Member Feb 5, 2011 1,622 7 38 http://iosdevelopmentandbetatesting.blogspot.com/ #19 m13, Aug 23, 2011 Thanks for the promo code for an excellent game. I have gone through the paces of both the lite and paid versions and left reviews in US iTunes store under agleung. -----(lite version) A wonderful single player turn-based strategy game demo. A turn-based strategy board game based on a real board game, variously know as Survive! or Escape from Atlantis. The original game is a multiplayer game whereas this iPad optimized version is a single player adaptation. Your primary goal is to move everyone safely to the boats. Islanders can drown (non-swimmers if left alone) or be killed by shark or octopus. Your secondary goal is to chain multiple rescues to boost you scoring multiples. Each turn you get 3 moves plus bonus moves equal to the number of rescued people from the previous turn. After your moves, the shark and octopus gets to move one block. Also one slice of the island may disappear. The hexagon with more adjacent open sea will melt away first. A lifeboat, a shark, or an octopus may appear when that happens. Each hexagon or lifeboat can hold up to two people. You can pick which of the two islanders to move by dragging that individual. It is best to play the game to understand how everything works and formulate your own strategies. This is a very polished game. The tropical themed music screams aloha. The graphics is nicely illustrated. The potentially unstable hexagon is only a tad darker than the stable ones, which in my opinion is not enough of a contrast. The entire game seems to be 960x640 rather than utilizing the entire 1024x768 iPad real estate. Hopefully the devs will find time to further optimise the HD version for the iPad by getting rid of the ugly black borders. The lite version lets you experience the first level on Banana Island. I have encountered 2 additional minor issues in this lite version. The game crashed a few times but was stable once I turned the iPad 2 off and back on again. My new high scores don't seem to be updated. It is no big deal since this is just a demo level. For me, after completing the lite version a few times, I feel that it is fun enough to explore the 5 complete islands with 3 levels each in the paid version. (4/5) -----(full version) A wonderful single player adaptation of a multiplayer turn-based strategy game. A turn-based strategy board game based on a real board game, variously know as Survive! or Escape from Atlantis. The original game is a multiplayer game whereas this iPad optimized version is a single player adaptation. Your primary goal is to move everyone safely to the boats. Islanders can drown (non-swimmers if left alone) or be killed by shark or octopus. Your secondary goal is to chain multiple rescues to boost you scoring multiples. Each turn you get 3 moves plus bonus moves equal to the number of rescued people from the previous turn. After your moves, the shark and octopus gets to move one block. Also one slice of the island may disappear. The hexagon with more adjacent open sea will melt away first. A lifeboat, a shark, or an octopus may appear when that happens. Each hexagon or lifeboat can hold up to two people. You can pick which of the two islanders to move by dragging that individual. It is best to play the game to understand how everything works and formulate your own strategies. This is a very polished game. The tropical themed music screams aloha. The graphics is nicely illustrated. The potentially unstable hexagon is only a tad darker than the stable ones, which in my opinion is not enough of a contrast. The entire game seems to be 960x640 rather than utilizing the entire 1024x768 iPad real estate. Hopefully the devs will find time to further optimise the HD version for the iPad by getting rid of the ugly black borders. This paid version has 5 islands with 3 levels each. The difficulty goes up correspondingly, thereby providing hours upon hours of fun challenging strategy gameplay. I look forward to future updates with Game Center integration. Global leaderboard would be a no brainer. Achievements would add to the challenge. A multiplayer mode would complete full adaptation to the original strategy board game. (5/5) Agas Well-Known Member Jan 28, 2011 2,347 0 0 #20 Agas, Aug 23, 2011 Last edited: Aug 23, 2011 Have played some levels on this game and here are my several opinions so far (NOT A REVIEW, just impressions): 1. Overall the gameplay is good. It may not have great graphics but it's a nice strategy game. It needs a better tutorial though (maybe a step by step tutorial with one small island). 2. The game is indeed crashes several times on my iPhone. Usually it's when I finish/win a level or when it's game over. Until now I've always win 3rd level, but never be able to see how it's ended. Definitely needs an update. 3. Several things are missing from the help section. > How many moves left is important for the game, should be explained. > The randomly destroyed hexagonal landand the way it works 4. The sign for risky places with different tone is not clear. When there are people in it, it's easier to see since the people blinks, but when it's empty I can't notice the difference. I am not color blind and a slight darker is way too similar. So sometimes I put people in risky places. You should make an easier way to distinguish risky places. Maybe red color, noticable blinking land, or cracked land images for better play. 5. Randomly destroyed land can produce sharks, octopuses, or boats - or simply just destroyed. Since this is a strategy game, it may be better if we know that something will come up after it's destroyed (though it's good to leave it as a surprise whether it's a boat or enemies, 50-50 chance) compared to regular destroyed lands. Then we can create better strategy to move the people. It's just an idea though since it's allright as it is (except that I can't distinguish different tone!!). 5. The magnifying glass is really helpful but at the same time it's confusing since it only highlighted the road in red. With longer moves in 3rd level, sometimes I encounter lots of red places and I'm confused which one is the ending road. Maybe it's better if the selected people is moving along during the transport to indicate its final position. 6. It's nice to see the buoy token above the characters that cannot swim. Maybe for easier understanding and better view, you can declare that babies, grannies, and dogs cannot swim while other can. Only these 3 characters have buoys on top of them. Therefore we don't have to scout every time we play for buoys icon, after several games we will be adaptive. 7. You said that each islands has different challenges, but they all are similar. Maybe you can add one liner under the island's name or add a description page after we select the land to describe the level. For example: Wasabi island - Sharks everywhere, no boats, can you survive? With this line you can add more levels so that the game will have more variety. Some ideas: island that destroyed fast, island full of non-swimming babies, island with faraway rescue ships, etc. 8. The sharks and octopuses are sometimes stupid. There are preys next to them and they move to another place. You should make the enemies cleverer so it's more challenging. So with more challenging levels and its random gameplay, we'll keep coming back for more. That's so far. Waiting for update then. (You must log in or sign up to post here.) Show Ignored Content Page 1 of 3 1 2 3 Next > Share This Page Tweet Your name or email address: Password: Forgot your password? Stay logged in
Volcano Island HD Promo Code Hi , i would like to request a promo code if there is any left. Thank you for your generousity for providing the code and contest
Saw the articles on videogamegeek.com and really want it. Don't have iPad though, so maybe you have iphone code for the upcoming contest. Thanks.
OK We discovered a bug related to iPod Touch 4th gen, and a fix is on the way; so I wanted to keep iPhone thing separate for this time. If your version runs smoothly, you're welcome to make a review, I can add you to the list.
I'll continue tomorrow It's sleep time for our hemisphere, so I'll continue to follow up requests tomorrow morning 23 Aug 10:00 GMT.
reviewed the lite as myself. good luck to whoever wins, won't be me but honest feedback is honest feedback. ========== Tried this on a whim. Seems like a decent game for those that like strategy board games with a generous sprinkling of randomness. The premise appears to be moving people around a hex grid (parts of an island) before the island disappears completely, and onto boats for rescue. Of course the waters are infested with sharks and octopus which can eat life boats and swimmers, not to mention some people can't swim in the first place. Overall a nice game, although seems a bit bland in the art department, probably a programmer did the art Not so much the art, but more the lack of fluid animations. Also, the playscreen has a strange squished/vertical look to it. almost as if a direct port from some other device. And no, I probably couldn't do better myself, I'm a programmer as well =============
Thanks for the promo code for an excellent game. I have gone through the paces of both the lite and paid versions and left reviews in US iTunes store under agleung. -----(lite version) A wonderful single player turn-based strategy game demo. A turn-based strategy board game based on a real board game, variously know as Survive! or Escape from Atlantis. The original game is a multiplayer game whereas this iPad optimized version is a single player adaptation. Your primary goal is to move everyone safely to the boats. Islanders can drown (non-swimmers if left alone) or be killed by shark or octopus. Your secondary goal is to chain multiple rescues to boost you scoring multiples. Each turn you get 3 moves plus bonus moves equal to the number of rescued people from the previous turn. After your moves, the shark and octopus gets to move one block. Also one slice of the island may disappear. The hexagon with more adjacent open sea will melt away first. A lifeboat, a shark, or an octopus may appear when that happens. Each hexagon or lifeboat can hold up to two people. You can pick which of the two islanders to move by dragging that individual. It is best to play the game to understand how everything works and formulate your own strategies. This is a very polished game. The tropical themed music screams aloha. The graphics is nicely illustrated. The potentially unstable hexagon is only a tad darker than the stable ones, which in my opinion is not enough of a contrast. The entire game seems to be 960x640 rather than utilizing the entire 1024x768 iPad real estate. Hopefully the devs will find time to further optimise the HD version for the iPad by getting rid of the ugly black borders. The lite version lets you experience the first level on Banana Island. I have encountered 2 additional minor issues in this lite version. The game crashed a few times but was stable once I turned the iPad 2 off and back on again. My new high scores don't seem to be updated. It is no big deal since this is just a demo level. For me, after completing the lite version a few times, I feel that it is fun enough to explore the 5 complete islands with 3 levels each in the paid version. (4/5) -----(full version) A wonderful single player adaptation of a multiplayer turn-based strategy game. A turn-based strategy board game based on a real board game, variously know as Survive! or Escape from Atlantis. The original game is a multiplayer game whereas this iPad optimized version is a single player adaptation. Your primary goal is to move everyone safely to the boats. Islanders can drown (non-swimmers if left alone) or be killed by shark or octopus. Your secondary goal is to chain multiple rescues to boost you scoring multiples. Each turn you get 3 moves plus bonus moves equal to the number of rescued people from the previous turn. After your moves, the shark and octopus gets to move one block. Also one slice of the island may disappear. The hexagon with more adjacent open sea will melt away first. A lifeboat, a shark, or an octopus may appear when that happens. Each hexagon or lifeboat can hold up to two people. You can pick which of the two islanders to move by dragging that individual. It is best to play the game to understand how everything works and formulate your own strategies. This is a very polished game. The tropical themed music screams aloha. The graphics is nicely illustrated. The potentially unstable hexagon is only a tad darker than the stable ones, which in my opinion is not enough of a contrast. The entire game seems to be 960x640 rather than utilizing the entire 1024x768 iPad real estate. Hopefully the devs will find time to further optimise the HD version for the iPad by getting rid of the ugly black borders. This paid version has 5 islands with 3 levels each. The difficulty goes up correspondingly, thereby providing hours upon hours of fun challenging strategy gameplay. I look forward to future updates with Game Center integration. Global leaderboard would be a no brainer. Achievements would add to the challenge. A multiplayer mode would complete full adaptation to the original strategy board game. (5/5)
Have played some levels on this game and here are my several opinions so far (NOT A REVIEW, just impressions): 1. Overall the gameplay is good. It may not have great graphics but it's a nice strategy game. It needs a better tutorial though (maybe a step by step tutorial with one small island). 2. The game is indeed crashes several times on my iPhone. Usually it's when I finish/win a level or when it's game over. Until now I've always win 3rd level, but never be able to see how it's ended. Definitely needs an update. 3. Several things are missing from the help section. > How many moves left is important for the game, should be explained. > The randomly destroyed hexagonal landand the way it works 4. The sign for risky places with different tone is not clear. When there are people in it, it's easier to see since the people blinks, but when it's empty I can't notice the difference. I am not color blind and a slight darker is way too similar. So sometimes I put people in risky places. You should make an easier way to distinguish risky places. Maybe red color, noticable blinking land, or cracked land images for better play. 5. Randomly destroyed land can produce sharks, octopuses, or boats - or simply just destroyed. Since this is a strategy game, it may be better if we know that something will come up after it's destroyed (though it's good to leave it as a surprise whether it's a boat or enemies, 50-50 chance) compared to regular destroyed lands. Then we can create better strategy to move the people. It's just an idea though since it's allright as it is (except that I can't distinguish different tone!!). 5. The magnifying glass is really helpful but at the same time it's confusing since it only highlighted the road in red. With longer moves in 3rd level, sometimes I encounter lots of red places and I'm confused which one is the ending road. Maybe it's better if the selected people is moving along during the transport to indicate its final position. 6. It's nice to see the buoy token above the characters that cannot swim. Maybe for easier understanding and better view, you can declare that babies, grannies, and dogs cannot swim while other can. Only these 3 characters have buoys on top of them. Therefore we don't have to scout every time we play for buoys icon, after several games we will be adaptive. 7. You said that each islands has different challenges, but they all are similar. Maybe you can add one liner under the island's name or add a description page after we select the land to describe the level. For example: Wasabi island - Sharks everywhere, no boats, can you survive? With this line you can add more levels so that the game will have more variety. Some ideas: island that destroyed fast, island full of non-swimming babies, island with faraway rescue ships, etc. 8. The sharks and octopuses are sometimes stupid. There are preys next to them and they move to another place. You should make the enemies cleverer so it's more challenging. So with more challenging levels and its random gameplay, we'll keep coming back for more. That's so far. Waiting for update then.
