pretty cool, but isn't this kind of the same thing fez did, only with a more mobile camera?
No, Fez was basically a direct copy of Echochrome and a couple of other games. In games like that, you move the camera in a set direction. In the game the DigiPen students are working on, you are the camera.
I also do landscaping on weekends with some mexican kid that I "hired". He's real good because he's 100% obedient to me and does everything I say while never complaining. He knows that I am the man in the relationship and is completely submissive towards me as he should be.