Developer(s) Trevor van Meter Designer(s) Trevor van Meter Initial release date 2002 | Publisher(s) Trevor van Meter Artist(s) Trevor van Meter Platform Adobe Flash Player | |
Programmer(s) 2002: Jason Krogh, 2016: Tom Sennett Composer(s) Brian McBreartyVas Kottas | ||
Fly Guy is a 2002 flash game created by Trevor van Meter, an illustrator and graphic designer from Greenville, North Carolina. This makes it a notable example of an early web game that went viral.
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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.
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 Observer's Very Short List called it "whimsical and deceptively simple".
Re-release
On 29 July 2016 Fly Guy was re-released on mobile platforms, and is now available for iOS and Android. The game was rebuilt in GameMaker by Tom Sennett.
References
Fly Guy (video game) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA