Coming Soon: Mikey Boots

It looks like Beavertap Games, makers of the excellent Mikey Shorts and Mikey Hooks games, are about set to release their much-awaited follow-up game: Mikey Boots.

Mikey Boots is the third game in the “Mikey” trilogy, and sees the hero augmented with a set of jet boots, with gameplay shifting to a sort of cave-flyer style game – a genre that has seen renewed popularity on the back of the success of Flappy Bird.

According to TouchArcade, Mikey Boots will include “a half dozen unique environments across 42 levels, two playable characters, 230 different disguise combinations, achievements, MFi controller support, and Game Center. (Source)

Both Mikey Shorts and Mikey Hooks, the previous games in the series, are excellent. Both feature MFi controller support for both Standard and Extended layouts, with Mikey Hooks featuring complete touch-free control over menus, in addition to gameplay.

Mikey Hooks is a particularly brilliant platformer, and despite it’s age, it still holds its own against newer iOS platformers quite well. But the gameplay of these previous games is much more in the vein of the traditional platformer, rather than the "hold to levitate and avoid crashing into things” mechanic re-popularized by Flappy Bird and incorporated by Mikey Boots.

In fact, Beavertap Games developer (and frequent TouchArcade podcast contributor) Mike Meade previously joked about making the third Mikey game “Mikey Flaps” instead. That didn’t happen, and I hope I speak for everyone when I say the world is worse off for it. But considering Hodappy Bird is a thing that exists, perhaps this joke has gone far enough already.

Mikey Boots has been submitted to Apple, and barring any complications, should be available within the next few weeks.