Derek Yu from TIGSource posted about a game recently called William and Sly by a developer named Lucas Paakh. I played through it on Sunday and really enjoyed how it was put together.
It’s a platformer in which you play a fox, romping through a magical forest to reignite a series of portals for your master. Along the way you must collect “fairyflies” to enable the portal stones, and there are underground beasts you must avoid, each looking to rob you of your magical tinkerbells.
It feels like a world out of a Miyazaki film, the mood of the forest feels sleepy and ethereal, even inside a Flash player. I loved the music and sound design. For a little while, I had the game paused and the thunder sounds in the game had us thinking that the picnic we were about to go on (in real life) would be a waste. It’s a short game, but worth playing to explore the environment and have fun with the platforming controls.
