Fancy Pants Adventures creator Brad Borne interviewed

by John Bardinelli { Mar 11th 2007 at 4:57PM }

The Flash game Fancy Pants Adventures is one part Super Mario Bros., a dash of Sonic, and a heaping tablespoon of originality. Brad Borne's fancy-pants-wearing stick figure stars in a side-scrolling platformer that emphasizes speed, exploration, and acrobatics. It's a well-polished title that stands tall over the deluge of second-rate Flash platforming games.

PlanetFreeplay sat down with Brad and prodded out details about his past as a programmer and the Fancy Pants development process -- we also get his top five. But the question we all wanted to ask was left out: boxers or briefs?

The first world of Fancy Pants is a great start to the series, and Brad is hard at work on World 2. This is one of the few Flash platformers that actually feels like an original game and not some dull Mario clone.

Tags: casual, flash, free, independent, indie, interview

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Eaode @ Mar 11th 2007 5:14PM

I LOVED that game.

Best Flash platformer I've played.

Myke @ Mar 11th 2007 5:21PM

Never played that game before until I read this article and now I think I'm well on my way to wasting the rest of the night. Thanks Joystiq!!

Crazylink @ Mar 11th 2007 5:22PM

I played it all the time last semester. It's pretty fun game.

Martez @ Mar 11th 2007 5:50PM

Super-fun game. Can't wait for a full version. Can you play this on the Wii's browser?

Amul @ Mar 11th 2007 7:36PM

He's got a new game out on AddictingGames. Completely different but kinda fun:

http://www.addictinggames.com/nocomment.html

Stu L Tissimus @ Mar 11th 2007 8:35PM

I wasn't expecting much out of this game, as years of bad Flash games have trained me to do so... But seriously, the game is pretty fun. The elasticity of Fancypants feels great!

Ben Hobbs @ Mar 11th 2007 9:16PM

This would be an ideal candidate for Xbox Live Arcade IMO.

Nino @ Mar 11th 2007 9:18PM

Great game! I miss how platformers were once an important genre. These days you can't even find that many on the DS.

John B @ Mar 11th 2007 9:37PM

"Super-fun game. Can't wait for a full version. Can you play this on the Wii's browser?"

It uses the keyboard, so no, not yet. However, Wiicade.com has an unofficial workaround that Flash developers can integrate into their games to map keyboard commands to the wiimote buttons. So it's not impossible.