Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure

[nCogNeato]

Straight up, you can't handle Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure.

The Flash game, designed by a 5-year-old girl named Cassie and programmed by a 33-year-old something-less-important-than-a-5-year-old-girl named Ryan, is simply too cute for your feeble emotions.

I mean seriously, it's a game in which you help Sissy (who "friggin' LOVES ponycorns") find ponycorns! You don't even know what that is!*

(* — As Cassie explains in her narration, "ponycorns are the best thing ever 'cuz they're like ponies and unicorns." Duh.)

[source]

You can play the game (and donate to Cassie's future education at http://www.untoldentertainment.com/games/sissy/.

The Dev Team

[nCogNeato]

I hope you're sitting down, because you are about to see the most adorable game since Nintendo canceled Luigi's Kitten Basket.



Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure is a Flash-based adventure game, that unlike the vast majority of similar titles was conceived and designed by a 5-year-old girl named Cassie. The creation of the game's more technical aspects were farmed out to 33-year-old Ryan of Flash developer Untold Entertainment Inc. using the company's Untold Graphical Adventure Game System.

As a result, the title's key concepts involve crayon illustrations, sparse animations, and 100 percent of your daily recommended allotment of pure, military-grade cute.

The existence of this game however, raises two important questions.

First, what exactly is a "ponycorn?" If Cassie's fully-voiced narration is to be believed (and it almost definitely is), a ponycorn is "the best thing in the world 'cuz they're like ponies and unicorns." It should also be noted that Cassie "friggin' LOVES ponycorns."

That query answered, we can address our second question: How is it that a 5-year-old is able to design an adventure game? Assistance from her 33-year-old aide aside, I think it's apparent that this game was created entirely by virtue of Cassie's overwhelming cuteness.

If, at some point, you can stop squealing with delight long enough to operate a web browser, Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure can be found on the Untold Entertainment website. The game controls similarly to a classic Sierra PC adventure, except that all the instances of unavoidable death and game-breaking bugs have been replaced with extra helpings of childhood whimsy and intense cutesypoo.

[the escapist]

[nCogNeato]

Sissy's Magical Ponycorn Adventure may be the most adorable video game ever created. Ryan Henson Creighton took his daughter Cassie went to a Toronto Game Jam, and the end result of that trip is unique, playable and arguably the cutest game I've ever played in my life.

"Cassie drew all the pictures, wrote all the titles, and recorded the voice of the main character," said Ryan, speaking on his blog. "She also came up with the NPCs (including Mr Turtle, the Mean Tiger, and the villainous Lemon), and designed some of the puzzles..."



The result is a game halfway between Axe Cop and The Smurfs – a game where the random, unfettered imagination of a young girl, obsessed with ponies and/or unicorns is shoehorned into an absolutely charming point and click adventure that somehow works!

I actually love the art, love the colouring. It looks like nothing else you've ever played, and the voiceover work is amazing.

[kotaku]

[nCogNeato]

The interwebs are going bonkers for this game.  As a result, their site seems to be having some trouble keeping up.   

[Maibs]

"Thats not a ponycorn - its a goat on a pole, thats weird"

Genius!

[Maibs]

Well completed it, no replay value but still alot better than gears of war