Nominated for the 2009 IGF Excellence in Design Award, creators Peter Jones and Kyle Pulver have attempted to take the platform genre and give it an innovative design. Pulver explains the origins of Snapshot and how it came about.

　　"My friend, and co-creator Peter Jones , had a dream one night about being chased with a monster and only having a disposable camera on hand to defend him. He took a picture of the monster trapping him inside of the picture. That's where he got the idea for Snapshot ."

　　Right away Snapshot's look reminded me of a mix between Yoshi's Island and Super Mario World, which makes this game quite pleasant to play. The controls are simple and easy to use, and the benefit of an Xbox 360 controller helps the gameplay along. What makes this game unique is the photo taking ability where you snap shots of interactive objects and store them away in your camera for future use. When an obstacle comes your way you just look through your snapshots and use one of them to paste on the screen.

　　The only usable photos that you can take in the demo are boxes that were used to sit upon buttons or photos of this purple pink elephant that you could jump on to reach higher platforms. If you accidently mistook a photo of a wall you just simply paste the photo anywhere and it will dissolve away. Photo posting was a bit interesting as once you paste a picture on the screen it looks as though you have pasted an actual photo with two pieces of tape on the edge.

　　Snapshot's level design is in its early stages and the demo I played was made specifically for IGF . The developers have expressed that most of what I was playing would end up on the cutting room floor, but there will be a lot more interactive objects to take snapshots of and more levels to be added once the final build is released. As of now there is no plan to release a demo this year, but stay tuned and GameSpot will update you as soon as possible.

　　As always download, download, and download.

　　-MAM