Kalicinski was inspired by Minecraft, and originally only worked on the game for fun, with his son as the sole pre-release tester. And the Adventure mode is used for quest maps and parkours. The Creative mode gives the player unlimited items and health. of which the first four involve the player gathering necessary resources to stay alive.
The game has six different game modes: Survival, Challenging, Cruel, Harmless, Adventure, and Creative. The game is set on a deserted island in an open world, where the player collects resources and items that can be made into survival tools.
Following early test versions, it was released on 16 November 2011 for the Windows Phone, and is also available for Android, iOS, and Microsoft Windows. Survivalcraft is a 2011 open sandbox video game developed by Marcin Igor Kalicinski under the brand Candy Rufus Games.
