Hello Kitty Island Adventure Developer highlights character selection and content updates in new interview
Hello Kitty Island Adventure is now multiplatform and fans old and new have been enjoying the island life with Hello Kitty and friends for a while now. While you’ve settled in well enough surely you must be wondering the status of new updates for the game? Or perhaps when your favorite Sanrio character might get added? Well if that’s the case, no need to worry as the fine folks at siliconera sat down with Chelsea Howe, Chief Product Officer at developer Sunblink for all the details.
We’ll only be providing a sampling of some of what Howe had to say about the games development if you want all the details we highly suggest clicking the link below to read the full interview.
The first question we want to look into is how the games will receive new content updates and according to Howe it seems that fans can luckily look forward to a smooth rollout.
All platforms should get the same event content at the same time. We’ll be releasing free content updates prior to upcoming events to ensure that everyone is experiencing the story and rewards together. Characters and regions require more QA, and while we release storylines bit by bit on Apple Arcade, we’re cognizant of the difference in Nintendo Switch and PC audiences and would like to release things more holistically there. That, in addition to the aforementioned timeline differences, means the update cadence outside of events is likely to be staggered between platforms.
[Chelsea Howe of Sunblink via siliconera]
Another question one might have is how Sunblink zeroed in one which characters from Sanrio’s library would be featured in the game. According to Howe, the decision really came down to which characters Sanrio wanted to push and the ones the fans wanted to see.
There are two main sources of priority: Sanrio and Sanrio fans! Sanrio has characters they love to spotlight, but we also want to enable fans to befriend their favorite characters in the game.
The latter means paying a lot of attention to the annual Sanrio rankings. It’s also a great excuse to peruse official merchandise and see what folks are most excited about. My Cinnamoroll plushie collection speaks for itself.
[Chelsea Howe of Sunblink via siliconera]
Speaking of character choices, fans might wonder what the odds are of getting crossover characters like Yoshikitty are. Unfortunately, it seems that if that were too happen it might not be for a while, but who knows what the future holds?
At the moment, the red tape and licensing complexity mean we’re unable to add “collab” characters, as we call them. We have a ton of folks at our office who love Yoshikitty, or Adorozatorumary. My favorite is Gaopoweroo! But alas, it’s simply not to be.
Perhaps if we’re successful enough, the collab partners will come to us asking for inclusion. We can dream, right?
[Chelsea Howe of Sunblink via siliconera]
The last question will be covering today is how long can fans expect Island Adventure to keep receiving support, and the answer is pretty simple…as long as fans keep playing!
While we have a roadmap that extends years ahead, it really depends on if folks are continuing to play the game! As long as we have an audience, it just makes sense for us to continue building out the world and enriching the mechanics.
[Chelsea Howe of Sunblink via siliconera]
That’s all we’re gonna cover today but if you want to read some additional information on the game’s development such as win the timeframe of when development started or Howe’s perspective on obscure character choices we highly suggest you give the full interview with siliconera a read down below!
