Is there any pixel ninja that would be maybe tempted to create a ninja game?

Imagine the game like the ninja version of 'thief'. you sneak into guarded homes, temples, palace etc. doing your ninja duty, trying to be unseen or at least do silent kills and eventually have a fight. A mixture of being overpowered by surprise and fighting skill, yet weak to e.g. a group of soldiers with guns.

while the environment would be simple art wise, made with purpose, the interesting twist would be to have very detailed animations. those would be triggered by not only player input, but also by context. the ninja you control would be 'smart'. e.g. if you run towards a wall or barricade, it would not just bump into it, rather go into cover or jump over it.

the closest that would come to such a game would be prince of persia http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv20j8ChtRY

takers? :)

I think there is no engine that would support those animation features, and getting images loaded and displayed is rather simple -> I will stick one together myself and we are free to define the workflow we like (e.g. file formats to be used).