Within a Deep Forest creator Nifflas interviewed

by John Bardinelli { Mar 18th 2007 at 11:04AM }

Two very small, unassuming freeware platform games have made a big splash in the indie gaming community: Within a Deep Forest and Knytt. Created with Multimedia Fusion, a game creation suite similar to Game Maker, designer Nifflas wanted to make something different than the thousands of platformers swarming the internet.

Nifflas' games focus on exploration and intrigue, breaking a few gaming conventions along the way. Both WaDF and Knytt feature large game worlds with very few enemies and tons of secrets to uncover. Knytt has practically no background music and instead relies on ambient sounds played at key points during the game.

PlanetFreeplay has just posted an interview with Nifflas who is hard at work on a new game. He continues to forge ahead with his current philosophy to create more of exactly what we want. These games may look simple, but they're just as epic as many commercial titles on the market. Plus, they're free.

Tags: casual, exploration, freeware, fusion, independent, indie, knytt, nifflas, withinadeepforest

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Matt @ Mar 18th 2007 11:21AM

Was going to try this, but I'm missing "COX" files? Are those supposed to be OCX files? And...yeah, not registering on the forum to fix such a bug.

FAILED.

PhoenixJ @ Mar 18th 2007 11:40AM

Within a Deep Forest was a great game.
A bit slow at the beginning though..

John B @ Mar 18th 2007 12:18PM

@ Matt:

The errors are caused by a rare glitch in MMF 1.5. The forums have a solution:

"The missing .cox errors are caused by DEP (data execution prevention). If you have enabled DEP, you must add WADF to the list of exceptions."

"To add a program to the DEP exceptions list, open control panel, system. Under the advanced tab, click performance settings. Under the DEP tab, if DEP is enabled for all programs, there will be an add button which will allow you to browse for programs to add to the exceptions list. Make sure to add the secret games program, as well as the main game."

cheesyhoboee @ Mar 19th 2007 6:30PM

Within a Deep Forest is rather meh, to be honest, but Knytt is freaking beautiful.

xerus @ Mar 18th 2007 4:36PM

If anyone out there is interested in making their own games, and cant code worth crap... then I highly suggest checking out ClickTeam's products. www.clickteam.com Multimedia Fusion 2 is what theyre talking about a lot in this interview. ;D

Matt @ Mar 18th 2007 5:08PM

OK thanks, I'll do the DEP thing. Glad I didn't have to register on the forums just for this.

fraxyl @ Mar 18th 2007 7:49PM

Within A Deep Forest is a fantastic game, not too long, but still mostly fun to play... the glass ball is a bit frustrating, but once you figure it out, it's quite rewarding. :)

Didn't know about Knytt, so it looks like I'm going to be playing that next!

emmzee @ Mar 18th 2007 8:07PM

I'm glad he mentioned cly5m's seiklus in the interview, because the art and possibly gameplay style of his games seems strongly influenced by that game (also free):
http://autofish.net/clysm/art/video_games/seiklus/index.html

While I personally didn't enjoy seiklus that much, it was nonetheless innovative, and if you enjoy 'within a deep forest' and 'knytt' you'll probably like seiklus too.