Falling down the well with gun boots in Downwell

We caught up with Japanese indie developer Ojiro Fumoto to learn more about his intriguing falling platformer Downwell that's heading to smart devices and PC later this year.

"What I wanted to make is basically like a Spelunky kind of game for iPhones or like smart phone devices,"says Fumoto. "And I wanted to make something that you could play on a portrait mode on smartphones. So I came up with the idea of having a really vertical kind of platformer where you keep falling down. It was basically just a simple platformer with no unique mechanic, but one day I came up with the idea of having like gun boots and it turned out to be really fun. So I just kept on making the game around that system."

Ojiro Fumoto is hoping to release the game around July for Android, iOS and PC.