My Friendly Little Island
MY FRIENDLY LITTLE ISLAND
DELUXE
A cozy platforming Adventure
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The new Deluxe version of My Friendly Little Island is now released. You can find a list of the new features here.
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🏝️ A Friendly Island Awaits You🏝️
My Friendly Little Island Deluxe is a cute game about personal growth and making friends. It starts out as a slow, simplistic adventure game. However, with every new skill you unlock, the game’s dynamics change more and more into a fast-paced platformer.
- Unlock new skills to fully explore your island
- Help new friends and populate your village
- Feel the music become livelier with every new villager
- Change your looks with cosmetic items
- Experience the day-night cycle
- Save feature unlocked early into the game
- Enhancements and a bit of additional content of the Deluxe version
- Lots of coconuts :)
🎮 Controls 🎮
(if the embedded web player does not register your inputs, just click into the web player again - it might not be selected for input by your browser)
| Game Boy Controls | Keyboard Controls | |
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| Move | D-Pad | Arrow Keys |
| Interact | A | Z / J |
| Jump | B | X / K |
| Menu | Start | Enter |
| ??? | Select | Shift |
🎁 What you get 🎁
The Deluxe version of My Friendly Little Island is my first paid game on itch.io. However, the full game can be played entirely for free within the embedded web player.
Buying the game allows you to download a ROM of the game that is compatible with the original Game Boy Color (and respective emulators).
A version for the Analogue Pocket is also included.
This way you can keep your save and your island forever 😊
🕹️ Physical Release 🕹️
Would you like to add a physical copy of this game to your collection? My Friendly Little Island Deluxe will be available on cartridge from publisher retrospiel at a later date. Follow me on Bluesky or Instagram if you don’t want to miss it.
🏆 Originally created for GB Showdown 2023 🏆
Thank you so much to everyone who rated my game and to everyone who left helpful feedback! I never would have expected to reach 3rd place in my first game jam 🙏
👾 Used Software 👾
- Built in GB Studio
- GB Studio Plugin: Platformer Plus by hauntology (for wall-jumps, dashing, etc.)
- GB Studio Plugin: Dialog with Name Tag from the GB Studio Plugin Collection by Yousurname
- Aseprite for creating the pixelart
- FxHammer for creating the sound effects
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $3 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Development log
- Update – Minor Fixes and OptimizationSep 18, 2025
- Release: Deluxe-Version of My Friendly Little IslandMay 01, 2025
- Post-Jam Update with Minor Bug FixesMay 28, 2023
Comments
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What an amazing game!! Carry the island in your heart!! :D
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Has become my son's favorite game :)
That's so cool! Thanks for letting me know 🧡
I like this game a lot :3
Thank you so much
Thank you 🧡
Just completed it. Wonderful game! Great example of turning mechanics into progression. It worked so well. Lovely!
Thank you. Glad you liked it 😊
Beautiful game- it's so rare to get to play such a thoughtfully executed and balanced adventure! Not only is a whole lot of fun, it is so good-natured and it so freely lets the player feel good about important things. You've not just made a game. You've done a service for others, be they hurting or not.
Thanks a lot 🙏 I really hope that the game can bring a little joy to people who are going through hard times.
Any significant changes in the new update?
Nope, nothing new 😊
Loved this game, especially the incrementally building music.
Be sure to carry the island in your heart.
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;-; what a treat. thank you for making this game!
And thank you for playing it 🧡
i hope the islands the only thing little
Just beat the game, I have but one complaint. I wish it was longer, this game is incredibly charming and the characters are great with a heartwarming ending I wound up wanting more. Love this.
Thanks a lot 🙏😊
Did you get to the post-game island?
You're right, the game is pretty short. I originally thought about creating a whole archipelago zu explore. But that would have diminished the importance of the friends you made on the first island. I didn't want the friends to become a just another checklist you have to tick off so that you can move on to the next island. That's why I left the game small and condensed.
Lmao of course you made this game--i almost teared up at the end, honestly most cozy 44 minutes of 2026 lol--i went to the post-game island but couldnt figure out what to do after i maxed out my stats. I even bought the crown
Glad you had a good time 😊
I don't want to spoil things. But I think there should be enough information in the comments here to reveal the secret of Coconut Island if you're interested 😉
hi. I just cleared your game and I spent a really good moment 😊 well done !
Maybe you can add some different language for the next update ?
Hi playinstinct,
I’m organizing an itch.io community bundle. All proceeds go 100% directly to itch.io. If you’d like to join, here’s the submission jam: https://itch.io/jam/thank-you-itch.
This is a huge opportunity to support Itch.io for creating such an amazing platform.
If not, that’s completely fine.
This game is so good, is so entertaining and I love the characters. I thought that the game ends with the credits but it kept going, I love that 🖤
Thank you! Very happy to hear you had a good time with the game 😊
-Replay game
-Max out Jump and Speed
-Great
-Get tons of friends
-Great
-Do stuff for like 15-30 min
-Get crown
-Yay this game is amazing
-Climb mountain
-Great
-Get surprise party
-Amazing, its as good as i remembered
-Write this comment
*Without saving at all
-Find Coconut island
-Find back of island
-Save
-Go play something else because idk what to do with the thing at the back but great game
Thanks so much! Very glad to hear you had a good time with the game 🧡
If you ever want to revisit the game, there are a lot of hints in the comments here what you can do in the back of Coconut Island. But it's just a small thing to reward further exploration 😊
ok! by "go play something else" i mean "go play something else for now"
Oh thanks! I got it yay
Nice! 😊
A really great game! Adorable characters, some funny dialogue too. My only issue was I wished it was longer, but what was here was amazing and having little secrets at the end was a nice touch.
Thanks a lot 😊
I originally thought about adding lots and lots of different islands with villages to build. But I think that would make the first island feel a lot less special and the connections with the villagers less meaningful. That could have turned the experience into a checklist. I wanted to keep it condensed to make it more personal and memorable.
I completely understand keeping it to one island and agree it would have dulled the shine of the first one. The best way in my eyes would to add new secret areas like the temple and the clouds, those parts really felt special to me.
Either way it was an amazing game and makes me long to make a cozy game myself.
you can make multiplayer with link cable to visit other island!
you did a great job with this! Really fun and cute game. You handled the gameboys limitations really well
Thank you 🙏
Bonjour,
Je suis désolé de vous demander cela ici mais je savais pas comment vous contacter autrement 😅
Est-ce que la rom de votre nouveau jeu "Buck" sera un jour disponible à l'achat ?
Ou seulement en version physique comme c'est le cas actuellement via ModRetro ?
Merci et bravo pour votre travail 👌🏼
En ce moment, Buck and the Cursed Cartridge est disponible seulement en version physique. C'est à GameStop et ModRetro de décider s'ils veulent une version digitale à l'avenir. (Pardon, mon français est plutôt mauvais 😅)
Merci pour votre réponse !
Je réfléchis à une commande chez ModRetro mais ce n'est pas donné depuis l'Europe si on ne veut qu'un jeu ou 2.
Faites vous un peu de vente en direct ?
(Votre français est excellent 😉)
Oh gosh geez! I just love this game with these little colorful... Circle.... Guys!
I did play old version and it felt WAY TO SHORT for how fun it was... I even 100% it I actually felt very disappointed it was that short but hopefully with the newer features I can try to only play a little bit each day so I don't kinda waste the experience in a sitting.... But anyway it's one the best homebrew games ever especially when you play as a happy circle with stick limbs and grow your village of other Happy colored circles! C: :3 <3
Haha, thanks so much 🙏😊
Well, the main game of the Deluxe version isn't really any longer. Just more polished. But there's a bit of additional post-game content. Hope you will enjoy your time as a little circle with stick limbs again 😄
I did already enjoyed a little yesterday... CX xp
Played and completed this on a long plane journey, loved it
Glad to hear you enjoyed it 😊
This was so cute!!! I loved playing through this.
Thanks! Glad you liked it 😊
I loved this game. I played it on my game boy on a real cozy Brazilian coastal village. I think the world needs the message you created throughout this game, specially in the Global North.
What a perfect game to enjoy this game 😊
Very happy to hear you enjoyed playing the game. And yes, I wished the world was a friendlier place 🥲
You know… in the first 10min of gameplay I suspected the dev was German, and a good person, because the entire narrative is the complete opposite of the awful experience I have with common Germans and German authorities, including all the prejudice I have been through when traveling to your country a couple of times. I appreciated mainly the detail about the archaeologist and teaching the importance of respecting native cultural heritage.
I'm really sorry to hear you had a bad experience travelling to Germany 😔
Which places have you been to?
Just out of curiosity - what revealed me as a German? 🤔😅
Hi! I visited several places in 2008, including the Rhine Valley (Bonn, Koblenz, Andernach, and small towns). I have also been on Berlin in 2018, and crossed the country by train to Bonn. I have also been to Magdeburg. I have a clearly Semitic Middle Eastern appearance and experienced prejudice all over the country on both trips. But I also suffer prejudice academically, by reading awful comments of some terrible German
criminalsscientists. But, of course, I notice you could only be German because the history of the game is perfectly the German society upside down. I even laughed at how you touch every concerning ethical misbehaviour, typical of what is going on in Germany. Other cultures in Europe are more respectful towards other nations' cultures, and especially, intellectual and cultural property. But Germany and the UK lead the list of nations that most break international laws in Europe to commit cultural crimes against foreign peoples and cultures. We made a short documentary here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3S5wyvGYkA&t=252sWhat a lovely game! I play it on my GBC and it's the perfect experience for me. Calm, peaceful, relaxing. One question [Spoiler, scroll down]:
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I'm unable to solve the temple mystery. I understand that I have to use the magically summoned clouds to jump in the sky and find something up there, yet I only find one place where I can do that - to the right of the village, in the screen where the ghost appears. Alas I'm unable to get anywhere in the sky - I can jump some clouds but I'm unable to reach anything. Is the solution up there or is there another place? Thank you!
Very glad to hear you're enjoying your time with the game 😊
About your question in the spoiler section:
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Yes, you're in the right place. You probably need to go even higher within the sky area. When you reach a dead end, try jumping to the left as far as you can.
Thank you! I totally forgot to use *that certain magical thing* in the sky part. I guess I reached the end now, after I got the *treasure* in the temple. Again - it was a delightful game, so sweet and relaxing. We should have more games like this. Thank you for this experience.
Yes, that's the end of the game. Glad you managed to find the solution. Thanks a lot for playing 😊
An absolute breath of fresh air, such an enjoyable experience from start to finish!
Wow, thanks a lot! 🧡🧡🧡
Let’s gooooo more updatesssssss
This was a delightful little escape for an hour or so. Very charming and cozy!
Video Review
Thanks so much for reviewing my game 🧡
Is anyone playingthis anymore?
You wrote the exact same comment a month ago. You should be more careful about your volume settings.
I came back not knowing it's now paid but it's ok, i have played it before it was paid.
You can still play the full game completely for free in the browser 😊
I can still see, but overall it's still cute tho...
I just LOVE ur games
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I absolutely loved this Deluxe version! Excellent little game!
Thanks a lot! 😊🙏
I loved it! It's like a bite-sized version of A Short Hike. You meet interesting characters in a lovely world with great music and atmosphere that becomes better with each person you help. This is of my favorite games now for sure.
I hope they make more games like it or maybe a sequel would be very cool :)
Thanks so much! It's an honor to be compared with A Short Hike. It's one of my favorite games. But strangely I didn't notice the similarities until the game was finished. My original plan was to explore what would happen if I mix gameplay elements of Animal Crossing and Super Mario. Maybe the creators of A Short Hike had a similar approach 😄
Glad to hear you enjoyed playing the game 😊
I'm definitely going to work on other cozy games in the future. But probably neither a sequel nor something too similar to this one. There are just too many other games I would like to create 😅
A Short Hike by way of Animal Crossing and Mario? Very cool. I can definitely see it.
A Short Hike probably is my favorite game so I guess it's not crazy for me to call this a favorite of mine too 😊
I loaded it up on my EZFLASH JR on GBC and played through it again and all the way up to the secret message. That was fun to decipher🤗
I thought it was an awesome and complete game when I helped everyone earlier but hey... more secrets! Awesome. I love the bunny ears btw.
On actual Gameboy it took me a while to get used to the B is JUMP and A is USE control scheme but idk it grew on me. It's a simple enough game mechanically that it gave it an added challenge and skill arc that I ended up appreciating.
There was a bit of slowdown in the village at the end on real GBC but I mean really it's like Clock Town at that point lol.
Oh and that little slow burn at the beginning lol. You mean I gotta get ANOTHER coconut all the way over there? I imagined a little Qbert expletive cloud popping up at that point lol.
Wonderful game. It truly lefted me fascinated by how simple it was while make me feel so relaxed through most of it.
But still not understand if there's more to do at the final mysterious temple and are an bug where if press much times repeatedly 'Select' button it gonna get more slower in FPS. Besides of that 10/10 title.~ 💖✨
Thanks a lot. Glad you liked it 😊
Does the "select slowdown" only persist while you keep pressing select repeatedly? Or is it still there when you stop pressing select?
(It's definitely caused by the cloud summoning ability. Currently it does not check whether the clouds have already been summoned. And summoning clouds over and over again takes a lot of processing power 😄)
Kaizo Mario ppl?
Translated the braille at the end of the game <3. Thank you for making this game!
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Thank you for playing 😊
And what it said? Please tell me. I not know braille 😅
spoilers!
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Always keep the island in your heart.
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Very happy to hear you enjoyed playing the game 😊
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What if u say no to everyone in the game
You will get alternative dialogue and won't progress through the story until you talk to them again and say yes.
Mannnnn
I just loaded the game and the title song DESTROYED MY EARS( I HAD THE VOLUME ON MAX) when it happened I screamed “ MY EARS😭😭😭😭😭”
That was really fun! Thanks. Cat ears ftw.
Glad you liked it 😊
I assume, you came here from my game jam entry "Capybara Village"?
If not, I think you might enjoy that, if your name is any indication 😄
I did but I did not get to finish it