Spider Island
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LEVEL 1 Major Updates
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Tour Guide
Tour guide now follows a node based path rather than acting out a one way journey to the visitors center
Intelligent Behavior
The tour guide now waits for player to catch up and continuing dialogue
Construction worker NPC
Primitive semi-procedural NPC. Relies on randomizers, timers, navigation nodes etc to emulate a busy worker.
Draft Spider
Draft of one of the spiders
Atmospheric Improvments
Some large chains hanging from cranes are now animated to appear blowing in the wind, combined with ominous creaking noises.
Collision boundary fixes
Prior to update the player could walk into un-desirable locations and clip through barriers. This has been fixed
Major Performance Optimizations
Due to major performance optimizations shadows have been re-introduced, while game still maintains a consistent 60fps
Foliage
Example of foliage
The Island
white structures are placeholders
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white structures are placeholders
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white structures are placeholders
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white structures are placeholders
What is Spider Island?
Spider Island is a story-driven horror action experience set on a massive tropical island that doubles as a spider-themed amusement park with a dark secret beneath it.
You play as a new security applicant arriving on the island, expecting a routine job in a high-tech tourist paradise. The surface world is vibrant and deceptive—filled with themed attractions, resorts, towns, villages, jungles, and entertainment zones where giant spiders are presented as harmless exhibits for guests.
However, everything changes when you witness the truth: the spiders that once “entertained” visitors are no longer contained… and the island’s carefully maintained illusion begins to collapse.
Stranded and cut off from proper support, the player is forced into a desperate struggle for survival. Across jungles, abandoned attractions, quiet towns, and collapsing underground facilities, you must restore power, navigate hostile environments, and find a way off the island. Each step deeper reveals that beneath the mountain lies a network of secret laboratories where unethical experiments have reshaped the island’s ecosystem into something far more dangerous than anyone was meant to know.
Spider Island focuses on environmental storytelling, exploration, and survival under pressure, as the player uncovers the horrifying reality hidden beneath the island’s polished surface while trying to escape it alive.
You play as a new security applicant arriving on the island, expecting a routine job in a high-tech tourist paradise. The surface world is vibrant and deceptive—filled with themed attractions, resorts, towns, villages, jungles, and entertainment zones where giant spiders are presented as harmless exhibits for guests.
However, everything changes when you witness the truth: the spiders that once “entertained” visitors are no longer contained… and the island’s carefully maintained illusion begins to collapse.
Stranded and cut off from proper support, the player is forced into a desperate struggle for survival. Across jungles, abandoned attractions, quiet towns, and collapsing underground facilities, you must restore power, navigate hostile environments, and find a way off the island. Each step deeper reveals that beneath the mountain lies a network of secret laboratories where unethical experiments have reshaped the island’s ecosystem into something far more dangerous than anyone was meant to know.
Spider Island focuses on environmental storytelling, exploration, and survival under pressure, as the player uncovers the horrifying reality hidden beneath the island’s polished surface while trying to escape it alive.