Community:LordJurrd/Island Royale

Island Royale is a battle royale game, created by. It was formerly available for 100 Robux as a paid-access game and is now in a BETA phase where everyone is able to play for free as of June 29, 2018. Players who bought the game when it was paid access received two exclusive emotes and 25,000 bucks.

Island Royale is heavily inspired from the massively popular game Fortnite Battle Royale, in which around 100 players skydive onto a massive island and hunt down other players or survive while gathering resources, weapons and building structures to be the last man standing. Due to the striking similarities and being considered the closest Roblox version of Fortnite Battle Royale, Island Royale is gaining new players every day.

Lobby
When starting the game, players will be greeted with a lobby screen in which their avatar is shown on a podium along with 3 other empty podiums. From here players can view their level, current balance of the in-game currency called Bucks, and a number of friends online.

In terms of matchmaking, players can choose between Solo, Duo, and Squad matches and whether they want to automatch with random teammates or not. In Duo or Squad matches, players can manually request teammates by clicking the '+' signs on the podiums. Once the Ready button has been clicked, players can unready themselves by clicking it again before they are placed into a match. As of the update on May 18, 2018, Keybinds can be changed to allow the player to designate custom keys to each function in-game.

Customization
The Locker tab is where the player can view their cosmetics, where the red top row are character cosmetics while the yellow bottom row is for special effects & emotes.

To get more cosmetics, the Item Shop sells two loot chests from which random items can be acquired; the Character Chest gives character cosmetics such as gliders, hats, faces, etc. while the Flair Chest can give effects, trails or emotes. However, there are also featured items available for direct purchase in the Item Shop which refreshes with every update, but they can be much more expensive than buying a loot chest.

Stats & Leaderboard
The Stats tab is where a player can view their weekly & all-time stats for each mode, which include their wins, kills, KDR and highest placement record. The Leaderboard tab displays weekly listings of the top players in each mode by deaths, wins & kills. It is important to note that weekly stats & the Leaderboard reset every 7 days, while all-time stats remain forever.

Currency & Passes
The Shop tab will display options to exchange various amounts of Robux for Bucks (similar to V-Bucks, a Fortnite currency, which is the sole form of currency in Island Royale and is used to purchase new cosmetics.

Aside from purchasing, players can also earn Bucks from daily rewards that become larger with each consecutive day that the player enters the game and also earn them simply by playing the game, as well as when they level up. Passes are not currently implemented into the game, but it is assumed that these will be used to display gamepasses for features similar to the Battle Passes in Fortnite.

Finally, the Codes tab is where players can input codes that LordJurrd gives out on his Twitter posts in order to redeem free Bucks, but these codes often expire in a day or two.

Criticism
Island Royale has been criticized by players for "ripping off Fortnite", as both games share similarities. The lower-tier graphics compared to Fortnite has also spawned criticism, however this is largely due to the game being on Roblox rather than LordJurrd's design choice. However, Jurrd has apparently claimed to have been contacted by lawyers representing Epic who told him the game differs enough from Fortnite to not be considered a copy, so it is unlikely to be taken down.