v0.8 · 14 Oct · Fishing

New

• Fishing! A fishing rod is in your first hotbar slot. Pick it, face the water from the beach (or stop the dhoni out at sea), cast with a power bar, wait for a bite, hook it, then keep the fish inside the green bar until the catch meter fills.
• Four fish to catch: reef fish and red snapper near the shore; trevally and tuna out in deep water from the dhoni. Bigger fish fight harder.
• Hotbar now has 10 slots and you can tap or click a slot to hold that item.

v0.7.5 · 14 Oct

New

• New hand-pixelled baraveli (hermit crabs): a coiled turban shell, stalked eyes, antennae, a big purple-red claw and jointed legs that step as they scuttle. They face the way they walk and tuck into their shells when startled.

v0.7.4 · 14 Oct

New

• Effects volume slider in Settings.
• Footsteps, punches and splashes are louder so you can hear them on a phone speaker.

Fixed

• Music volume slider did nothing on iPhone; it now works.

v0.7.3 · 14 Oct

New

• Errands from the villagers: Dhaththaa, Keyolhu, Kambaa and Katheeb each ask for help once you’ve done Dhon Hiyala’s first mission. Look for the yellow “!” over their heads. They use your inventory: coconuts, breadfruit, sticks, stones, and Kambaa’s crab count.
• The sea glistens: sparkles twinkle across the water with slow ripples of light drifting over the deep lagoon.
• The dhoni’s sail is rolled up on the beach and unfurls when you set sail; it rolls up again when you land.

Fixed

• Sound effects stopping after a while. The sound engine now checks itself every couple of seconds and restarts on your next tap if the phone has frozen it.
• RUN button on phones not responding while you held the stick; it now works with a second finger and shows RUN ON.

v0.7.2 · 14 Oct

New

• Inventory is always on screen as a hotbar at the bottom centre, like Stardew Valley. No bag button any more. On a computer, 1 to 8 picks a slot.

v0.7.1 · 14 Oct

New

• Dialogue choices: in some conversations you pick what Maniku says, and people answer differently.
• Two new conversations each for Katheeb, Keyolhu, Dhaththaa, Kambaa and Dhon Hiyala.
• Villagers stroll around their spot and turn to face you when you come close.

Fixed

• Odi logo on the phone title screen sat too high; it is now lower, nearer the middle of the sky.

v0.7 · 14 Oct · Villagers

New

• Four more villagers to talk to: Katheeb (the village chief) by his joali, Keyolhu the fisherman near the beach, Dhaththaa by her house and Kambaa on the south side. Each has four conversations, with three moods.
• Inventory bar for your items.
• The dhoni now looks like pixel art, with chunky pixels and a dark outline.

Fixed

• Sound effects stopping on iPhone (after the app went to the background, or with the silent switch on).

v0.6 · 14 Oct · Sailing

New

• A sailing dhoni: board it on the beach facing the wooded island and sail across the lagoon.
• The wooded island across the lagoon, with palms, breadfruit trees and a secret.
• Two new missions: Tracks across the lagoon and Round the island (a two-minute sailing race).
• Inventory bar: pick up sticks, stones, coconuts and breadfruit.
• Hit palms and breadfruit trees and now and then a coconut or breadfruit drops.
• Baraveli (hermit crabs) scuttle along the beaches and hide in their shells.
• Sounds for footsteps on sand and in the shallows, punches, hits and splashes.

Fixed

• Palm tree shadows were streaky and broken; they are now solid. No more shadows painted on the sea.

v0.5.4 · 14 Oct

Fixed

• Odi logo on the title screen sat too high on iPhones, behind the Rotate and music buttons.

v0.5.3 · 14 Oct

Fixed

• Buttons and text hidden under the iPhone’s status bar and Dynamic Island (especially in Rotate mode). Everything now stays clear of the notch, Dynamic Island and home bar.

v0.5.2 · 14 Oct

Fixed

• Green strip at the bottom of the screen in the installed iPhone app, upright and sideways. The whole game, title and menus now size themselves from the real screen.

New

• Screen size readout at the bottom of Settings, to help track down display problems.

v0.5.1 · 14 Oct

Fixed

• Green strip down one side when playing sideways (Rotate) in the installed iPhone app.

New

• Version number on the title screen and in the menu.
• What’s new now lists bug fixes too.

v0.5 · 14 Oct · Missions

New

• Three missions from Dhon Hiyala, each in a different part of the island: Coconuts for tonight, Check the tide flags, The lost sea glass.
• Mission tracker, markers, floating text and sound effects. Progress is saved.
• What’s new page in the menu.

Fixed

• Green strip on the right of the title screen in some desktop browsers.
• Rotate button showing on tablets.

v0.4 · 14 Oct · Talking

New

• Conversations go both ways: Maniku answers back with 12 expressions.
• Dhon Hiyala: new look, three moods, seven conversations, moved to the open square by the valhu.
• Soft blip sound as words appear (switch off in Settings).

Fixed

• Bits of Maniku’s hair cut off in his portraits.
• Portraits cropped at the top of the head.
• Dialogue box too wide on phones held sideways.

v0.3 · 14 Oct · The island

New

• White coral sand with grass only under trees.
• Waves wash up the beach; cloud shadows drift over the island.
• Houses, walls, breadfruit trees and coconut palms from Matheen’s art; the village is now an island with a beach.

Fixed

• Square patches in the sand.
• Blocky, oversized cloud shadows.
• Grass growing where it shouldn’t.

v0.2 · 14 Oct · Phones

New

• Big, centred menus on phones; Rotate button; installable app with its own icon.

Fixed

• Play and menu buttons not responding to taps on phones.
• Maniku vanishing when punching on phones.
• Music not starting on the first tap.
• Old versions of the game sticking around after an update.

v0.1 · 14 Oct · First version

New

• Walk, run, punch and talk around the village. Title screen, music and menus.