A beautiful landscape with a "simple" puzzle and a re-introduction of a new mechanic, which was displayed on Hex complex. Take your time with this map, enjoy the moment.

Note, for the best effect, set shader details to "High" or "Very High". While playing with lower settings, the map looks incredibly bad and may even have some extra issues. Please switch shader details in the main menu rather while playing the map, it might actually crash the game while doing so.

Known issues or problems, but not really noticeable:
* It might be hard to know or notice protable surfaces.
* Water reflections might get wonky sometimes.
* env_embers (flying particles) can go nuts sometimes.
* Water textures on portals.
* First loading time might take a while, due that the map has many things to load up (almost 100 Mb).

If there are any issues, please report.
Enjoy, relax and leave a feedback if you can.

You can also check some of my work with similar style:
Memorial - secret area
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Thanks to:
emreovus33 - testing
Qbeh-1: the Atlas Cube - music and inspiration (cool game)
Beemod 2 - Custom cube prop
Unknown - skybox (not mine)
Valve - for some of the models from other source games

I might continue making a map or two with this style.

Click here to download Islands

Click here to download Islands

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2 little 'bugs':

On the plattform where you get the cube, theres a hole you can swim in (near the portable surface on the bottom), there are some blocks untextured

And here i got stuck in the cubes at the beginning, couldnt even grab the gun,
maybe place a clip there which disappears after the rotation
||I know you could also just not run into it, just to be sure https://youtu.be/SpKROzG65cY||