Sometimes just a few seconds of footage from a game is enough to cast a spell over potential players. The Magician's Hand is an upcoming title that looks like it could be a 2D animated movie of the kind people often complain there aren't enough of these days.

That's probably a lot to do with the fact that its developers are former animators. Laser Rabbit is a new four-person indie team based in Stockholm. What little they've revealed of their first game so far bodes well for their promise of a strong focus on storytelling.

The Magician's Hand is a hand-drawn and mixed-media animated 2.5D puzzle-platformer. It's set in an imaginary Victorian London, where you play as the severed left hand of a legendary magician called Fabrizio.

The character is immediately reminding people of Interactive Studios's cult 1998 platformer Glover, but Laser Rabbit's game is very different in tone.…