The pair then teamed up with Ben Britten and Matt Ditton of Mighty Games and began work on Shooty Skies. Though both Sum and Hall were hardly green in terms of their experience with games development, the success Crossy Road enjoyed very definitely took the games press by surprise, with word of mouth proving a vital component in the game’s early success.
“I then met up with Matt, and started to work on Crossy Road.” But Faerie Solitaire didn’t actually fire the starting pistol on his career. “My first release was called Faerie Solitaire for the guys at Big Fish Games,” Sum explains. Sum, who has been one of the leading forces behind two massive mobile hits – Crossy Road and Shooty Skies – spent years developing titles for his own entertainment and didn’t actually release his first game commercially until 2009. Original? No, but none the worse for it.Andy Sum began making games as little more than a hobby more than a decade and a half ago. It ain’t no passing craze!ĭisney Crossy Road is a fantastic little package that wonderfully combines its two properties. Next Buzz Lightyear unlocks a toy world, and so on as I realize every film has its own environment to navigate.īetter still, characters unlock at a good rate with only 100 coins needed to get a new one and coins regularly gifted to you… though of course you can pay if you are inpatient or really want a specific character. My second character is Rapunzel from Entangled, and suddenly the world is completely changed into knights and other medieval items. It is only when I start unlocking more characters that I realize the variety Disney Crossy Road injects. Starting with Mickey Mouse himself, I am treated to the typical road crossing gameplay: trying to hop through busy traffic, work my way around trees, and using logs to cross rivers.
Bringing in Disney stars from all manner of movies, each one is a beautifully blocky representation of a familiar face. Where Disney Crossy Road does mix things is with its characters. It is a look now seen often, but the first game took it to a new level and popularized it in a way few games before it had. Simple, and a perfect modern take on Atari’s classic arcade game Frogger.ĭisney Crossy Road keeps the original’s isometric blocky style that gives the feel of playing with models made from LEGO.
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