🌴 How the hell did we get here?

In our game, you play as a cynical mailman suddenly stuck in a tropical archipelago. And we know what you're thinking:

How the hell did he get there?

We’re glad you asked, because honestly, we’re still figuring that out too. But let’s start from the beginning: this guy.

A game developer in a small Tuscan hill town. Not exactly seaside, but you can almost smell the salt air if the wind’s right. So, It’s 2020. Lockdown. Existential-crisis-o’clock. He’s replaying Monkey Island (again), and just as dawn breaks, fog rolls into the valley. Only the hilltops remain visible and They look like islands. (Obvious, right?)

And just like that, a new idea was born: A game. A world. An archipelago. An adventure.

🗺️ Building a world from scratch

Fast forward a few years (yes, years) and here we are: building an entire archipelago, one scene at a time. Every background drawn by hand. Every character scribbled, scratched, rewritten.

We’ve filled this world with weird people, sillier legends, and a lot of clickables. Buuuuuut... only one small issue:

We’ve never been to a tropical island. Not once. (We’re working on it.)

So… we studied. Hard.

And now we know way too much about:

• 🏝️ Pitcairn Island and its wild history

• 📜 The Tuamotu archipelago and obscure Pacific routes

• 🧭 Rapa Nui and a church we didn’t even know existed

• 🦪 Some very fancy oysters we still don’t understand—but they felt important, okay?

🎬 When in doubt, watch movies

Let’s be honest

research is exhausting. Sometimes, your brain just melts.

So we switched to another kind of research

Movies. So. Many. Movies.

The kind that kept us glued to CRT TVs as kids:

• Lost worlds

• Jungle mysteries

• Deserted islands

• Giant orange titles screaming ADVENTURE

Those movies taught us something: It’s okay to be a kid again. To lose yourself in a story. To explore an island far from everything.

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🇮🇹 Looking closer to home

We also turned to something closer: Our roots.

We’re Italian. And if there’s one thing Italians are good at, it’s telling big stories with a bag of wooden nickels as budget and a wild imagination.

We thought about:

• 🎥 Sergio Leone’s dusty frontiers

• 🤜 Bud Spencer & Terence Hill’s sunny brawls

• 🎞️ And the hidden wonders of Folco Quilici (look him up—thank us later)

Quilici was a filmmaker and anthropologist who documented distant tropical communities—far from modern life. His work stayed with us. So much that we left a few easter eggs in the game, just for him.

🏝️ Still building. Still dreaming.

So no, we’ve never been to the Pacific. But this game?

It’s made from everything we’ve loved, studied, and imagined. It’s the game we’ve always wanted to play. And now we’re building it so you can play it too.

Video devlog: Part 1 | Part 2 | Parte 3