Ever since GameClub was announced in March of last year, it’s been a total blast seeing what types of games have been added to the service. It’s not surprising that many of their biggest titles have hit close to home, as our former Editor in Chief Eli Hodapp has been instrumental in bringing specific games to GameClub. It’s why you see more than one of our Game of the Year picks as well as massive fan-favorites from our community, like Rocketcat’s Hook Champ series. And so it’s only natural that this week’s new release is Mikey Shorts. If you haven’t been hanging around TouchArcade for the better part of a decade or so, let me explain.
Mikey Shorts was a game that was literally born on the TouchArcade forums. Both Mike Meade and Mike Gaughen were members of our community and were avid Hook Champ players back in the day. They both had an affinity for speed running the game, and through chit chatting while beta testing Hook Champ’s follow-up Super QuickHook, they also discovered they both had a desire to create a game of their own. It just so happened that Gaughen could code a little bit, and Meade was pretty handy with creating pixel art and designing levels, so they put their talents together and over the next year and a half or so created Mikey Shorts, a platforming game designed with speedrunning in mind.
So you see, everything came full circle. Massive TouchArcade community favorite Hook Champ was the very first ga...