Likwid Games is proud to announce that we are in development of a brand new online flash experience. Code-named "Castaway Online", this game will encompass your favorite features of the Castaway series in an online setting.

Here is a preliminary list of what you can expect from this revolutionary new game:

- Select between a boy or girl character

- Customize your character's initial appearance (hair styles, colors, eyes, etc)

- Build and customize your own plot of land with your very own customizable house

- Plant crops on your land to earn additional money

- A new friends system that will show you when your friends are online

- Send private/public messages to friends or other players in the same room as you

- Visit and interact with land owned by your friends

- Explore and battle with up to 4 friends in real-time

- Craft hundreds of items including equipment, weapons and accessories

- Use professions like Carpentry to craft items for your land and home

- A new, large town with the ability to actually go inside of buildings

- An auction house where you are able to buy or sell your treasures and crafted items to other users

- Easy to use point and click movement/attack system. No more keyboard controls (besides shortcut keys)

- Simple, strategic turn-based battle system

- Control your pet's actions in battle

- Raise pets for battle and show them off to your friends

- More features to be revealed as development continues

The game will launch initially on Facebook as a global application. This allows users all over the world to interact with each other and their existing friends similar to other games like Farmville. We may change the name upon release, due to possible issues with using the name "Castaway".

We will be releasing alpha/beta versions of the game throughout development and will be selecting users from this site to participate. These will be users who we feel are good at contributing good, useful feedback and have shown it based on their game comments and forum posts. Obviously, a Facebook account will be required as well.

We will not be releasing any timelines on the completion of this game, but understand that a game of this magnitude will take much longer to develop than our previous games.

Feel free to share your ideas, comments and questions.

oh my gosh that is awesome and i have the first post!!!!!

Ur making castaway an rpg game? Hurray i hope its as cool as epic duel

cool but are you gonna release it on google+ too?

In the future perhaps.

nice, but if this is going to be an online game, can you do your best to reduce as much lag as possible?

also, hopefully there wont be premium items in the game, or at least not much, games with item malls usually gets carried away with it, and seriously unbalances the game, godswar online for example, premium players will have god like characters (pun intended) while the non-premium characters gets nothing but crap, or how tyrant is turning up right now, the developers are getting carried away and making crap cards for non-buyers, and making god like cards hard as hell to get, or for buyers only.

if you must have premium items in the game, hopefully it is only for styles or items that gives a slightly higher boost than normal items.

other than that, i cant wait for the game

We will definitely try to minimize lag, but it will also depend on how far you are from where the server is hosted (Chicago, USA). You will not notice much lag if any when playing solo. When you have a party or another user in the same room as you, slight lag may occur. We're hoping it won't be very noticeable at all.

Items can be purchased with real money if the player does not have enough in-game currency to buy it. There will also be some premium items in the game, as it will follow the same model as other freemium games like Farmville.

k, just dont get carried away in those premium items like the other games with premium items.

also i got an idea, why not make the game a bit like tradewinds/uncharted waters? I.E. you can explore the seas, and trade goods, etc. i mean it is your game, you dont have to make it based on 2 games

Omg, fantastic. And thanks likwid for being a friend and waiting till i was out of school!
The funny thing is that I got out 4 hours early because a pole decided to go all ninja on me and put a small hole in my head... Don't worry, blood was spilt, but I'm fine. And I'm not joking, there seriously IS a hole in my head.

Also I have great love for being a beta tester...(Hint, hint!)

ok im sure this is going to be amazing. but i have two things to say. 1 come n guys the last thing we need to do is bombard likwid with ideas. 2 i am agreing with pixlekiller. likwid please dont make the whole game about having topay for items or other features. when ever that happens it ruins the game for people who cant pay for it.