summer island vs holiday island

[Busenfreund.®]

where is the difference

[Matt]

Hello & Thanks for your comment,

As you can imagine, we grew up in the 90s with Holiday Island when you could still play it on win XP.
That's why Summer Islands have been inspired by the genre and the retro style.
If you remember the game principle/content, you could come up with the following differences:

• More versatile and larger maps with deep and shallow water
  
• Other calculations of capacity and finances
  
• MULTIPLAYER
  
• Other textures with their own style
  
• Dynamic computer opponents with different behaviour
  
• Other Music/SoundFX and User Interface
  
• Other catastrophes and buildings by modern, powerful engine

We are currently in Early Access. There will be many free enhancements in the next months.
We hope to be able to revive the genre.

[Busenfreund.®]

klingt nice

[⎛⎝Tiùwilo⎠⎞]

Will you have a bunch of crazy animations for the buildings as well? Can't be a true Holiday Island successor if you don't have those hilarious, disgusting sewage plants with the toilet flushing noise and all.

[schrottinator]

When I saw this game I instantly thought of Holiday Island. I loved that game pack then and it's great that you create a modern day version.

Will Summer Island have the same kind of humor?

[Global Fish]

Hallo Freunde,
ich habe heute morgen ein Video zu dem Spiel bei Graystillplays gesehen.. und als der Ladescreen fertig war und die Spielwelt zu sehen war. Wow, ich hab direkt gedacht, das ist doch Holiday Island - nur in neu. Und anscheinend ist das ja so. Das freut mich, hab schon seit Jahren gedacht, wieso macht da keiner eine Neuauflage?
Also schön, dass es sowas gibt. Die meisten anderen Spiele in dem Setting waren ja eher Murks.
Ich kann jetzt zu Summer Islands nicht viel sagen, außer, dass es mir zu leicht vorkommt (und dass man endlich die blöden Urlauber am Strand einfach überbauen kann!!!!). Ich hoffe wirklich, dass da noch einiges ins Spiel integriert wird und es einfach super toll wird. Ich hatte solche Diskussionen schon bei Pizza Connection 3: Ich bin nicht mehr im Jahr 1996 und ein Kind, sondern im Jahr 2019 und habe sehr viel mehr gespielt und sehr viel höhere Erwartungen.

Also ich bleib am Ball und hoffe einfach, dass alles toll wird :)

[momomo]

came here for the same reason. this looks like a blatant copy of holiday island

https://www.gamer83.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Holiday_island-810x564.jpg

except that holiday island came out as a fully fletched game while this one here comes out as overpriced alpha build.

[Aeon]

My first reaction as well, maybe the polished some buildings but don't see many differences so far

[socket0]

From what I see early on, different endgame and playstyle.

Holiday Island: Raising land on sea has a hefty price (800k vs ~20k on raising land on land), discouraging raising land only for building buildings but can be useful to break monopolies on one rival-controlled, dense island.

Summer Island: Raising land on sea is cheap (4k, no difference whether on land or sea) but deep waters act like hard borders. (EDIT: Breaking monopolies is not only possible, it's much cheaper to do, since in here, roads, not land, connects access between buildings.)

Holiday Island: Does not need roads to grant access for tourists to buildings, but *requires* connected roads for sewage, garbage, and power plants.

Summer Island: Does not have plants, but require roads to connect buildings.

Holiday Island: Has a big variety of "island environment" profiles that could be accessed as early as early-game. (e.g. houses-only, camps-only, hotels-only, beach-food only, etc. and some of them even have tiers within such profiles; cocktail bars and ice cream bar are both beach-food while belonged in different tiers)

Summer Island: Smaller variety of "island environment" profiles that could be accessed early-game. I see that some higher-tier buildings unlock over time, but I really like the possible cohesion of early-game and mid-game buildings.

[Jush1]

Hello,

does this game have similar sound track eg summer music as legendary Holiday Island? :D
loved those songs way back in the day.

[Matt]

Originally posted by Jushi:

Hello,

does this game have similar sound track eg summer music as legendary Holiday Island? :D
loved those songs way back in the day.

Thanks for your question.
We don't have any music integrated yet. It is still WIP.
But we're working on it. :)