Talking about Mina the Hollower, Yacht Club's next digging-adjacent adventure!

[MCBanjoMike]

I was working yesterday so when I got home and found out about it, it was 2,000 dollars from being funded. So yeah, it's nice that I don't have to use Kickstarter, but it'll also kinda suck for Yacht Club if it doesn't get funded as well as Shovel Knight did because of this. I know they'll just make money later with full release, but I wonder how/if it'll affect their plans internally?

Considering how long it has been since the Shovel Knight Kickstarter, I have to assume Yacht Club's finances are pretty stable at this point. Presumably, the new campaign is more to drum up hype for this game, give people a chance to pay lots of money to put their faces in the it, etc. It's a shame about the KS blockchain announcements, chances are Yacht Club had this campaign organized well before that stuff came to light.

 

[Purple]

Needless to say it looks rad.

The kickstarter is here. It is, of course, double-funded as of me posting this but it's been up for like a week already where is all the hype for it? Like is it how furry game the thumbnail looks or have horrible NFT creep signifiers ruined the SEO of the people who made freaking Shovel Knight?

... Can't think of much else to say that isn't in the thread name. This one's wearing its influences on both sleeves.

 

[Phantoon]

It looks great. Possibly leaning a bit further into action than I'd like, but it looks fluid and fun.

I hope the whip has a wider hitbox than it looks because Link's sword in the first Zelda was intensely annoying to me.

 

[Yimothy]

where is all the hype for it?

It’s here.

Certainly does look rad, as you say.

 

[Daikaiju]

Seriously though, what is it with YCG's 1st party titles and digging?

 

[Patrick]

Yacht Club’s CEO:

 

[Alixsar]

No, no...dig UP, stupid!

 

[Beowulf]

Okay, yeah, that's really in my wheelhouse. Also, the "cheat codes" stretch goals seems like nice insurance again my discovering it's unpleasantly hard.

 

[Olli]

I can appreciate aesthetics, but I'm somewhat guarded towards the slow GameBoy-like movement mechanics shown in the video. It's probably going to be fine, but currently, I feel like it looks a bit too retro for the sake of being retro.

 

[MCBanjoMike]

Yeah, the movement is definitely the thing that worries me the most. It’s early days though, so maybe it will get tweaked - or maybe it’s fine when you’re actually the one playing it.

 

[Paul le Fou]

I didn't think it looked very slow, and on watching again just now...still don't. Even if basic walking is a bit slow it looked to me like there are a lot of movement tools to mix things up.

 

[Positronic Brain]

Treasure Trove just released all the art from Shovel Knight and their expansions under the Creative Commons License

 

[Bulgakov]

Looks like this one got funded for about 1.2 million. So yay fishing game, and unfortunately we'll be limited to a robust 3 starting weapons instead of a robust 5!

 

[Falselogic]

I backed it at the last minute. I just love their games and wanted to participate in this campaign despite KS's moves toward shittiness.

 

[Ludendorkk]

https://www.yachtclubgames.com/blog/sales-breakdown-a-couple-pocket-months-later

If you're wondering why they did a Kickstarter, the simple answer is "we didn't sell enough games, so we needed the money"

 

[MetManMas]

I figured it might be something like that.

Many people forget just how much of the Shovel Knight compilation that Yacht Club Games gave away for free to those who bought that initial $20 purchase back when it was just Shovel of Hope. They did boost the price as they went and eventually sold the component parts of the Treasure Trove separately, but they still put a lot of work into additional content they weren't guaranteed to make more money off of. And as a puzzle gamey spinoff, Pocket Dungeon was likely to be a bit of a harder sell to the crowd that bought Shovel Knight for the retro 2D platformer goodness.