Lego Island is getting a fan-made sequel called Project Island

Of the numerous Lego videogames that have ejaculate and gone over the years, a couple of are as revered as Lego Island. Released in 1997 for Windows PCs, it's pretty much a collection of minigames strung in concert by a small explicit world and gobs of entertaining interludes with a cast of cuckoo characters. The serial publication has been torpid for decades, just a fan see aims to bring new life to a childhood standard.

"Externalize Island is a fan-made sequel supported off the Lego Island series", as the devs explain on their website. You'll in one case once more live playing as pizza delivery kid Common pepper Roni, taking along the island's tasks as you please, unlocking unweathered gear mechanism and a load of customisation options as you go.

Project Island was first announced in 2017, for Lego Island's 20th anniversary, and as you might expect for a heat project reinforced in its developers' spare time, work up has been fair larghetto. For now, the team's goal is to educate a demo titled Port Pizza, set on a smaller island with more finite scope.

The team has been providing infrequent-but-homogeneous update videos showcasing their come along, the latest of which launched just few weeks ago.

The term 'winnow game' always brings to mind the idiom 'cease and desist', but Lego has been friendlier than about corporate entities toward projects alike these. Lego set has issued statements regarding other fan projects like Bionicle: Pursuance for Mata Nui and Darkflame Universe, saying "We see game development American Samoa an exciting opportunity to add raw way to engage with the Lego brick."

More recently, Lego set has launched a Unity tool to help aspirant devs make games, and has even expressed concern in officially publishing the resulting creations.

Project Island run along Floris has even appeared on a new episode of the established Bits N' Bricks podcast to discourse the unfit's development, and piece that's certainly non an indorsement from Lego, it does indicate that the company is pleased to see fans working therein space.

For today, the Project Island team up is looking for additive team members to help bring the biz to life-time. So if you've got the skills for building games (and equal construction games), give the project a look.