Thanks to Brawsome for letting me know about Lylian, a game in development on and off for the last two years by Pixelpickle Games. Pixelpickle Games is a a small company founded by Robert Dowling who does contract cinematics and animation work and somehow manages to fit in development on Lylian when he can find it. He describes PixelPickle Games as...
...a very small independent company focused on creating small yet fun and unusual games initially for the PC with an outlook to develop for multiple platforms including next gen consoles and mobile devices.
Pixelpickle Games is so small, in fact, that there is just a small team working on its current project.
Robert Dowling: In the industry for 7 years. With a background as lead animator on various games, now leads his own projects under the name Pixelpickle Games.
Lylian looks to be an interesting arty-flavoured side scrolling action game where the protagonist has some extended attacking moves due to the length of her straight jacket. The artwork in the game is exceptionally good and very arthouse, and equally impressive is the concept art and Lylian comic on the website.
It received some very constructive feedback at the Independent Games Festival competition earlier this year, so hopefully Pixelpickle will be tackling those issues to make Lylian the standout game that it has the potential to be.
Lylian is coming out at the end of September/early October, so be sure to keep an eye out for it. Here are some further links on Pixelpickle Games and Lylian which are very much worth checking out!
Official website including Video footage www.lyliangame.com
Facebook community www.facebook.com/pages/Lylian/16224211601
Developer blog www.pixelpicklegames.blogspot.com