First 20 Minutes: Ostrich Island
Have you ever wished that you could run around a tropical island, collecting eggs and attempting to escape all while being an Ostrich? Nope, me neither, but that doesn’t make playing Ostrich Island any less fun!
Ostrich Island, developed by the one-man band of MeDungeon Games, is a game where the main objective is simply to reach the end of the island and escape, however, if you want to rack up those points (and who doesn’t want to rack up lots and lots of points) then you’re going to have to do some exploring, in every single nook and cranny of the titular island, in order to find as many ostrich eggs as you can. There are lots of other little hidden treasures for you to find too, just to get that score a little bit higher, and the whole game is presented in an aesthetic that is pleasing to the eye and actually makes you want to stay on the island at times, instead of escaping.
The calming nature of the visuals doesn’t mean that the game’s easy though, not by a long shot, you’ll spend a great deal of time trying not to fall in the water, running away from the rising tide and avoiding a whole host of other hazards that dot the sombre looking, but entirely deadly, island.
Don’t take my word for it though, check out the video we created and see it for yourself:
Ostrich Island is currently looking for funding via Indiegogo so if you want to get a piece of the action for yourself, you should over there as soon as you can and pledge some of your hard earned cash to the cause.
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Martin Baker
By day I play video games, test video games or just simply write about them. By night I fight crime on the streets of London as a masked vigilante known only to a select few ... damn SECRET identity. Could never get the hang of that.
I've been writing about video games for about 10 years now, and playing them for even longer, starting off with a Spectrum ZX passed down to me in about 1988. Yes, I used to play games that came on cassettes. Yes, they were AWESOME!
I've been writing for God is a Geek since October 2010 and loving every minute of it, aside from that I write for my own website and work as a video game tester for Testology. So, yeah, I'm pretty much living the life of a gamer, and I don't intend stopping anytime soon thank you very much.
Unless I run out of money, then we might have a problem.
