Good Game Get! When Pigs Fly

When Pigs Fly is Auntie Pixelante’s (Anna Anthropy’s) first commercial game, and it’s pixelated goodness is currently exclusive to New Grounds.

The game’s short opening scene establishes that you are a pink pig, and that this frolicking pig has fallen into a hole and can’t get out. You may try jumping, but shortly after much desperation, the little pink pig squeezes itself together and hatches wings, ridiculously big (and cute) and hard to control wings. After that, the game teaches you it’s controls, and then through some awesome music, some cute pig squeals, and spectacular title work, your adventure as the unfortunate flying piggie begins.

The controls are simple enough, but the difficult gameplay quickly overshadows the space bar/arrow key simplicity as you’ll have to have quick reflexes to guide your pink flustered self throughout the dark catacombs in hopes of searching for a way out. Your wings may not touch anything but air, and that doesn’t sound as hard as it actually is. The pig may bump her head, and you can use that to your advantage, but if your wings touch anything, it’s back to the beginning of the screen, not back to the beginning of the game which would have made the game torturous.

The game feels less of a web game and more of a solid and original title. The pig’s cute personality, coupled with an increasingly dark and strange underworld, really make for some interesting interactivity moments, as I found myself getting angry at the game, but not at the pig. After all, it didn’t choose to fall in the hole, did it?

However, it did choose to fly.

- Kyle