Let's take a trip down memory lane to GDC in March of 2016 when we first checked out a then upcoming game called Le Parker - Sous Chef Extraordinaire [Free]. It was a platforming game that was the passion project of a handful of individuals who called themselves Play Pretend, and it was inspired by the platformers that the crew had grown up playing during the 8- and 16-bit eras. As someone who grew up during that same time and seeing as platformers are my favorite genre of video game, I was unreasonably excited for Le Parker and watched its progress like a hawk. After not hearing much about the game for some time, Le Parker launched rather suddenly in early December of 2016, and it was just as fantastic as I'd hoped it would be. I explained why in our Game of the Week writeup for Le Parker, and not long after we awarded it 4.5 stars in our review. Ah yes, another classic platformer to add to my collection. Life was good.
After spending a couple of months following its release updating Le Parker with tweaks and fixes based on user feedback, we didn't really hear anything more about plans for the game's future and in fact an update hadn't been released since way back in January of last year. As I've already mentioned today, as an iPhone X owner I love playing games that support the full screen of the device, and I keep a list of absolute favorites that I hope get updated for the iPhone X. Le Parker was indeed on that list, but given the lack of any news or updates for the ga...