GDC08: Spend some quality time with Fez's developers

Go Team Redundant! :)

I felt deja vu for the first 40 seconds.

Oops didn't notice 'innovative platformer'.

yeah where's phishy?

It's a two-dimensional platform that exists in three dimensions. Eloquent? Maybe. Helpful...? Ehhhh.

It's effectively a 3-dimensional game that can be played from four possible angles, at which the "trixels" (? I think that's their word for three-dimensional pixels) appear and behave two-dimensional. Although it may appear similar at first, it's actually significantly different from Super Paper Mario. In Super Paper Mario, you switched between 2D and 3D modes. In this game, you are always playing a 3D world as if it were two-dimensional, just from different angles. See the teaser trailer Moofree posted up there ^^^^^^.

So slightly like the 2D sections of Super Mario Galaxy?

It really is a design that could be exploited well but hopefully won't be (and probably will be) whored out by every developer and their gran.

Apologies.

I did get it, I was just taking the piss out of the "Uh it's uh a 2D/3D type of uh game like uh Super Mario but uh you can uh rotate the world uh 90 degrees at a time" dude. What a douche.

The version at GDC was played on a PC, but uses an Xbox 360 controller. Don't know if that means anything, though.