

Knowing this, Tux and Fanny has an appealing sense of ease it’s not that the game’s puzzles aren’t hard, but it’s comforting to know that every piece of them has a purpose. It’s structured around the joy and surprise of discovery, and it’s clear that every seemingly random detail - down to a worm in a digestive tract - has a purpose. Tux and Fanny may sound like it lacks structure. The journey starts inside their quaint, shared home, then it sprawls outside into an ever-expanding world. The initial goal of inflating a soccer ball opens up Tux and Fanny to so many little questions.

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Like the movie before it, Tux and Fanny (the game) is constantly surprising. Of course, it’s not as simple as just finding a pump and filling the soccer ball with air. Created by Birney and Gabriel Koenig of Ghost Time Games ( Test Tube Titans), Tux and Fanny once again stars Tux and Fanny - still purple, pink, and pixelated - who want to kick around a soccer ball. That idea has since been adapted into a video game, also called Tux and Fanny, and it’s something of a prequel. The New Yorker described it as possessing “giddy inventiveness” that’s both “precise and emotionally calibrated,” its simply-drawn world and characters toying with a sweet and strange story. The characters originated in a series of 79 one-minute Instagram clips depicting a weird and wonderful exploration of friendship and hijinks. Tux and Fanny, the 2019 film by Albert Birney, begins with the two characters - both pixelated in a striking, blocky style, one purple and the other pink - kicking around a soccer ball before a cat with fleas strolls by.
