Fly Guy (video game)
{{Short description|2002 flash game}}
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{{Infobox video game
| title = Fly Guy
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| image = FLY GUY Screenshot.png
| caption = Starting location
| designer = Trevor van Meter
| publisher = Trevor van Meter
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| platforms = Adobe Flash
| released = 2002,{{cite web|url=http://www.commarts.com/interactive/cai09/crappyCat.html|title=Communication Arts - 2009 Interactive Annual - Crappy Cat|accessdate=July 21, 2014|archive-date=August 20, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820110840/http://www.commarts.com/interactive/cai09/crappyCat.html|url-status=live}} 2016{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/heytvm/status/759029974888099840|title=HeyTVM on Twitter|accessdate=July 29, 2016|archive-date=May 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516203732/https://twitter.com/heytvm/status/759029974888099840|url-status=live}}
| genre = Graphic adventure
| modes = Single-player
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| programmer = 2002: Jason Krogh,{{citation |url=http://www.prompt-communications.com/impromptu_weekly/12_August_05.htm |title=Impromptu Weekly|last=McManus|first=Sean |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820094435/http://www.prompt-communications.com/impromptu_weekly/12_August_05.htm |archive-date=August 20, 2014 |access-date=September 15, 2016 }} 2016: Tom Sennett{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/TomSennett/status/759140055952654337|title=Tom Sennett on Twitter|accessdate=July 29, 2016}}
| artist = Trevor van Meter
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| composer = Brian McBrearty
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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.{{cite web|last=|first=|date=January 25, 2008|title=Making a Living // Making a Life|url=http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/soad/upload/Making_a_Living_Schedule.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019233714/http://www.ecu.edu/cs-cfac/soad/upload/Making_a_Living_Schedule.pdf|archive-date=October 19, 2013|accessdate=August 12, 2014|website=}}
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
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.{{cite web|last=Rondal|date=July 19, 2010|title=The Tao of Crap: An Interview w/ Trever van Meter, creator of Crappy Cat|url=http://www.strangekidsclub.com/2010/07/19/the-tao-of-crap-an-interview-w-trever-van-meter-creator-of-crappy-cat/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820150054/http://www.strangekidsclub.com/2010/07/19/the-tao-of-crap-an-interview-w-trever-van-meter-creator-of-crappy-cat/|archive-date=August 20, 2014|accessdate=August 19, 2014|work=Strange Kids Club}}
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".{{cite magazine|url=https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2012560_2012539_2012530,00.html|title=Trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy - 50 Best Websites of 2004|magazine=Time|last=Buechner|first=Maryanne|date=August 23, 2004|access-date=July 21, 2014|archive-date=July 15, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715213349/http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2012560_2012539_2012530,00.html|url-status=live}} The New York Observer{{'s}} Very Short List called it "whimsical and deceptively simple".{{cite web|last=|first=|date=July 26, 2010|title=Everybody Plays the Game VSL|url=http://www.veryshortlist.com/vsl/daily.cfm/review/1614/Website/?tp |work=The New York Observer|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729222009/http://www.veryshortlist.com/vsl/daily.cfm/review/1614/Website/?tp|archive-date=July 29, 2010|accessdate=July 22, 2014}}
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.
References
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External links
- [http://www.trevorvanmeter.com/flyguy/ Fly Guy]