I played The Big Catch prologue and was reminded of this game. I'm not sure exactly what it was, but I'm thinking it was the visuals as well as the checkpoint lanterns. Anyway I finally get curious enough to check this game again and I see that you are a dev for TBC, wow, my intuition was correct.
Now I need to see if I can actually beat this game, I remember getting stuck and giving up, but I 100% the TBC prologue so maybe my gamer skills have improved lol.