Snapshot

What's going on with Snapshot? I see a pixel art video, and a different looking screenshot.
The video that is shown on our site right now is from our prototype build of the game that was in the Independent Games Festival in 2009. We're currently working on a high res version of the game, and when we are ready to reveal that version in full motion we will replace the old pixel art video. The video is there to give people a glimpse at what Snapshot will be like.

When do I get to see more of the game?
When we're ready to blow the doors off the new style and feel of the game, we'll be posting a lot more media. Stay tuned!

Give me a run down of the game, if you could.
Oh, I could.

A 2d side scrolling platformer with one twist. The player can take photographs of things through the use of some sort of magical camera attached to the head of a seemingly innocent robot. Everything caught in the camera is captured inside of the photo. But wait, there's more! The photos can be pasted back into the world through a different somewhat magical process. What's the big deal about that? Everything captured in the photo is then restored!

What does that mean? Well lets say you come across a trap in a mystic cave of some kind. Suddenly a boulder is rolling toward you from atop a giant hill. It's rolling faster and faster and you can do nothing to avoid it -- so snap a photo of it! You're safe! For now. Until a giant monster comes leaping out of the darkness at you. What should you do? Okay, spoilers, I'll tell you what you're going to do.

Using your photo powers, paste that photo back into the world in front of that monster. What? Why not take a photo of it? The monster is a little too big for your lens, so you cant capture him inside of it. Anyway, back to the photo pasting. Before you paste that photo, you're going to rotate it. Yeah, that's right. Rotate it so that boulder is facing the monster. As soon as it's pasted back into the world, the boulder comes shooting out and slams into the monster, hopefully blowing it away.

You see, objects that are captured in photos retain all their properties of when they were photographed. So this includes everything physical about the object, and since that rolling boulder was barreling down a slope at a ridiculous speed, it shoots out of the photo at that same speed, and saves the day.

It's pretty awesome, and that's just one grain of sand in the Snapshot desert.