Fly Guy is a 2002 graphic adventure video game released for Adobe Flash and designed by Trevor van Meter, an illustrator and graphic designer from Greenville, North Carolina.[5]
| Fly Guy | |
|---|---|
 Starting location | |
| Publisher(s) | Trevor van Meter |
| Designer(s) | Trevor van Meter |
| Programmer(s) | 2002: Jason Krogh,[3] 2016: Tom Sennett[4] |
| Artist(s) | Trevor van Meter |
| Composer(s) | Brian McBrearty Vas Kottas |
| Platform(s) | Adobe Flash |
| Release | 2002,[1] 2016[2] |
| Genre(s) | Graphic adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
Gameplay
editGameplay in Fly Guy is minimal; players control a man with the arrow keys, letting him move left and right and fly up and down. Throughout the world of the game, players can encounter many abstract and nonsensical things, such as a floating monk, a sumo wrestler, and a man tiling bricks to make the sky, revealing a starry backdrop behind them. There are no goals or loss states in the game. When the player ascends high enough, the game ends.
Development
editIn an interview, van Meter said that he created Fly Guy because he felt that people with jobs wanted to escape, so he built a Flash game around that idea.[6]
Reception
editTime magazine listed Fly Guy as one of their favorite websites of 2004, calling it "A delightful bit of interactive flash" and "not a bad place to be".[7] The New York Observer's Very Short List called it "whimsical and deceptively simple".[8]
Legacy
editOn July 29, 2016, Fly Guy was re-released on mobile platforms and was available for iOS and Android.[2] The game was rebuilt in GameMaker by Tom Sennett.
As of 2021, these versions are no longer available.
References
edit- ^ "Communication Arts - 2009 Interactive Annual - Crappy Cat". Retrieved July 21, 2014.
- ^ a b "HeyTVM on Twitter". Retrieved July 29, 2016.
- ^ McManus, Sean, Impromptu Weekly, archived from the original on August 20, 2014, retrieved September 15, 2016
- ^ "Tom Sennett on Twitter". Retrieved July 29, 2016.
- ^ "Making a Living // Making a Life" (PDF). January 25, 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on October 19, 2013. Retrieved August 12, 2014.
- ^ Rondal (July 19, 2010). "The Tao of Crap: An Interview w/ Trever van Meter, creator of Crappy Cat". Strange Kids Club. Archived from the original on August 20, 2014. Retrieved August 19, 2014.
- ^ Buechner, Maryanne (August 23, 2004). "Trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy - 50 Best Websites of 2004". Time. Retrieved July 21, 2014.
- ^ "Everybody Plays the Game VSL". The New York Observer. July 26, 2010. Archived from the original on July 29, 2010. Retrieved July 22, 2014.