{"id":9594,"date":"2022-11-04T20:14:45","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/influential-toy-like-puzzle-game-windosill-is-coming-to-switch-after-13-years\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T20:14:45","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T20:14:45","slug":"influential-toy-like-puzzle-game-windosill-is-coming-to-switch-after-13-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/04\/influential-toy-like-puzzle-game-windosill-is-coming-to-switch-after-13-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Influential Toy-Like Puzzle Game ‘Windosill’ Is Coming To Switch After 13 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Waving through a windo.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cast your mind back to 2009, if you can. It was a Wii year, with Wii Sports<\/a>, Wii Fit<\/a>, and Mario Kart Wii<\/a> dominating the charts, and indie games were really kicking off, with niche-but-beloved games like Flower<\/a>, Canabalt<\/strong>, and Minecraft<\/a> (okay, fine, that one’s not niche any more) all being released within months of each other.<\/p>\n

Among those games was a brilliant little surreal toy-puzzle called Windosill<\/strong>, which you may not<\/em> have heard of. It’s a game by vector artist Patrick Smith, who would later go on to make a similar game called Metamorphabet, and even if you haven’t played it, you’ll recognise the games that drew on Windosill as an influence \u2014 Monument Valley<\/strong>, Donut County<\/a>, Alto’s Adventure<\/strong>, and Blek<\/a> have all publically acknowledged Windosill as one of their guiding stars.<\/p>\n

Read the full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[#item_image]Influential Toy-Like Puzzle Game ‘Windosill’ Is Coming To Switch After 13 Years<\/p>\n

Waving through a windo.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cast your mind back to 2009, if you can. It was a Wii year, with Wii Sports<\/a>, Wii Fit<\/a>, and Mario Kart Wii<\/a> dominating the charts, and indie games were really kicking off, with niche-but-beloved games like Flower<\/a>, Canabalt<\/strong>, and Minecraft<\/a> (okay, fine, that one’s not niche any more) all being released within months of each other.<\/p>\n

Among those games was a brilliant little surreal toy-puzzle called Windosill<\/strong>, which you may not<\/em> have heard of. It’s a game by vector artist Patrick Smith, who would later go on to make a similar game called Metamorphabet, and even if you haven’t played it, you’ll recognise the games that drew on Windosill as an influence \u2014 Monument Valley<\/strong>, Donut County<\/a>, Alto’s Adventure<\/strong>, and Blek<\/a> have all publically acknowledged Windosill as one of their guiding stars.<\/p>\n

Read the full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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