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Faraway Islands · published 14 Dec 2020, 15:57 UTC

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Hello everyone,


I am really glad I can finally tell you that the game is fully released. I have play through it several times and fixed all game-breaking bugs I encountered and hopefully caught all of them but you never know.

Anyway, if you experience such bug, I intend to fix or tweak it, but I'm not implementing any new features or major game changes.

I know FI is not the best game and there is a lot that can be improved, but I'm immensely glad I managed to get it to the state it is in now.

I have started the development years ago at high school. Since then I already realized it was too big of a scope for my first "bigger" project. But thanks to that I learned a lot about programming, graphics and game development as a whole which I intend to utilize more in my future projects. (hopefully something smaller :-D)

At the end of this post would like to thank to all who purchased, supported and more importantly to those who played (and will play) my game.

Have a lovely day.

- Peter

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