{"id":129489,"date":"2022-11-04T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-140536"},"modified":"2022-11-04T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T19:30:00","slug":"influential-toy-like-puzzle-game-windosill-is-coming-to-switch-after-13-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/04\/influential-toy-like-puzzle-game-windosill-is-coming-to-switch-after-13-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Influential Toy-Like Puzzle Game &#8216;Windosill&#8217; Is Coming To Switch After 13 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/45c97b0f31eeb\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/45c97b0f31eeb\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"7WWzxIB2XF4\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Cast your mind back to 2009, if you can. It was a Wii year, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/wii_sports\">Wii Sports<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/wii_fit\">Wii Fit<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/mario_kart_wii\">Mario Kart Wii<\/a> dominating the charts, and indie games were really kicking off, with niche-but-beloved games like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps3\/flower\" class=\"external\">Flower<\/a>, <strong>Canabalt<\/strong>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/minecraft\">Minecraft<\/a> (okay, fine, that one&#8217;s not niche any more) all being released within months of each other.<\/p>\n<p>Among those games was a brilliant little surreal toy-puzzle called <strong>Windosill<\/strong>, which you may <em>not<\/em> have heard of. It&#8217;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&#8217;t played it, you&#8217;ll recognise the games that drew on Windosill as an influence \u2014 <strong>Monument Valley<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/donut_county\">Donut County<\/a>, <strong>Alto&#8217;s Adventure<\/strong>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu-eshop\/blek\">Blek<\/a> have all publically acknowledged Windosill as one of their guiding stars.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"cols\">\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Windosill\" class=\"scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7424ae63efb3d\/windosill.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA0NDUgMzM0Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"445\" height=\"334\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7424ae63efb3d\/windosill.445x.jpg\" alt=\"Windosill\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"col\"><a title=\"Windosill\" class=\"scanlines scanlines\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f041213d0ce24\/windosill.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA0NDUgMzM0Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"445\" height=\"334\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/f041213d0ce24\/windosill.445x.jpg\" alt=\"Windosill\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Images: Patrick Smith\/Vectorpark<\/em><\/figcaption><\/aside>\n<p>All of which to say that Windosill is coming to the Nintendo Switch \u2014 a perfect home for the bright, simple lines of the game, if you ask us. Developer Patrick Smith has even said that the game is &#8220;redesigned for controllers&#8221; and now supports two-player co-op, plus &#8220;tasteful rumble effects&#8221; and a &#8220;dynamic gravity mode&#8221; that uses the Switch&#8217;s accelerometer. There&#8217;s even an art gallery of &#8220;Windosill-adjacent paintings&#8221; to find!<\/p>\n<p>You can download Windosill on the Nintendo Switch eShop from the 11th of November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content]Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube Cast your mind back to 2009, if you can. It was a Wii year, with Wii Sports, Wii Fit, and Mario Kart Wii dominating the charts, and indie games were really kicking off, with niche-but-beloved games like Flower, Canabalt, and Minecraft (okay, fine, that one&#8217;s not niche any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}