{"id":64211,"date":"2018-11-23T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/11\/video_a_history_lesson_on_switch_launch_title_snipperclips_and_its_developer_sfb_games"},"modified":"2018-11-23T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T10:15:00","slug":"video-a-history-lesson-on-switch-launch-title-snipperclips-and-its-developer-sfb-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/11\/23\/video-a-history-lesson-on-switch-launch-title-snipperclips-and-its-developer-sfb-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: A History Lesson On Switch Launch Title Snipperclips And Its Developer SFB Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0614627347a6d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0614627347a6d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Snipperclips\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0614627347a6d\/snipperclips.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0614627347a6d\/snipperclips.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Snipperclips\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If you were closely following the Switch and Nintendo as a company around the time of the console&#8217;s launch back in March 2017, you&#8217;ll no doubt remember this particular launch title. Sitting amongst the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\"><strong>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/just_dance_2017\"><strong>Just Dance 2017<\/strong><\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/1-2-switch\"><strong>1-2-Switch<\/strong><\/a> was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/snipperclips_-_cut_it_out_together\"><strong>Snipperclips<\/strong><\/a>, a unique little title which captured the hearts of players and even became an important part of Nintendo&#8217;s marketing efforts at the time.<\/p>\n<p>While the game was published by Nintendo, the creative minds behind the project were actually two brothers, Tom and Adam Vian, otherwise known as the lovely folks at UK-based developer SFB Games. Their history is a particularly interesting one, with their original ideas for Snipperclips &#8211; which was actually called &#8216;FriendShapes&#8217; in early demos &#8211; effectively being scouted by Nintendo specifically for the Switch. <em>Not a bad thing to put on the old CV.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To help spread the message about the studio and to inform viewers about some of the finer details, YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCyy7dZhgfeMMctSoo3wDXlQ\">Thomas Game Docs<\/a> has shared a new video on the company and Snipperclips&#8217; journey. Check it out for yourself below.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not the video-watching type, or if you want to know even more, you can also check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/03\/feature_snipperclips_-_working_with_nintendo_to_create_a_switch_co-op_classic\">our interview with the two brothers<\/a> from around the game&#8217;s launch.<\/p>\n<p><em>Did you pick up Snipperclips when you first got your Switch? What did you think of it? Let us know in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you were closely following the Switch and Nintendo as a company around the time of the console&#8217;s launch back in March 2017, you&#8217;ll no doubt remember this particular launch title. Sitting amongst the likes of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Just Dance 2017, and 1-2-Switch was Snipperclips, a unique little title [&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-64211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64211","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=64211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}