The screensaver depicts a man stranded on a very small island with a single palm tree. It follows a story which is slowly revealed through time. It takes many days to catch on to the story. While Johnny eats, fishes, builds sand castles, and sleeps on a regular basis, there are a number of unusual events such as the island getting crushed by a ship that Johnny attracted, Johnny getting tied up, and a mermaid coming to the island.
Character design was done by Shawn Bird while he was at Dynamix. The game had been developed at Jeff Tunnell Productions, the eponymous company of the original founder of Dynamix. According to Ken Williams, the screensaver was one of several products by Dynamix that were cheap to create and very profitable.
Johnny Castaway is a screensaver released in 1993 by Sierra On-Line/Dynamix, and marketed under the Screen Antics brand.
"Johnny Castaway" also features holidays of the year such as Halloween, Christmas, July 4th and others. The scenes played out as normal in those times, except for some detail representing the event. For example, in the last week of the year, the palm tree would have a "happy new year" banner. Halloween has a jack-o'-lantern in the sand, and so on. This feature was easier to see than the normal antics, requiring the user to simply change the system clock to the chosen day.
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