Fly Guy
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.
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Key facts
Key facts
• Title — Fly Guy • Designer — Trevor van Meter • Publisher — Trevor van Meter • Engine — * Adobe Flash (2002) • GameMaker (2016) • Platforms — * Web browser • iOS • Android • Released — * Web: 2002 • iOS, Android: 2016 • Genre — Graphic adventure • Modes — Single-player • Programmer — * Jason Krogh (2002) • Tom Sennett (2016) • Artist — Trevor van Meter • Composer — Brian McBrearty Vas Kottas
Gameplay
Gameplay
Gameplay 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
Development
In 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.
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2002
Fly Guy published.
2002
Fly Guy is recorded as published in 2002.
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Reception
Reception
Time 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". The New York Observer Very Short List called it "whimsical and deceptively simple".
Legacy
Legacy
On July 29, 2016, Fly Guy was re-released on mobile platforms and was available for iOS and Android. The game was rebuilt in GameMaker by Tom Sennett. As of 2021, these versions are no longer available.
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- 1.Communication Arts - 2009 Interactive Annual - Crappy Cat.
- 2.HeyTVM on Twitter.
- 3.McManus, Sean. Impromptu Weekly.
- 4.Tom Sennett on Twitter.
- 5.Making a Living // Making a Life. January 25, 2008.
- 6.Rondal. The Tao of Crap: An Interview w/ Trever van Meter, creator of Crappy Cat. Strange Kids Club. July 19, 2010.
- 7.Buechner, Maryanne. Trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy - 50 Best Websites of 2004. Time. August 23, 2004.
- 8.Everybody Plays the Game VSL. The New York Observer. July 26, 2010.
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