Yacht Club Games, the developer behind the favored throwback platformer Shovel Knight, has introduced a model new IP. It’s a top-down “bone-chilling motion journey” entitled Mina the Hollower that is impressed by Gothic Horror and is about in a weird world stuffed with monster. The firm has introduced the brand new recreation at an occasion, the place it has additionally launched the Kickstarter marketing campaign to assist fund its improvement. According to IGN, Yacht Club Games director and designer Alec Faulkner stated the developer is financing a majority of the venture, but it surely’s returning to Kickstarter to construct a group and get suggestions from backers.
Faulkner stated:
“We need your suggestions, collaboration, and help in making Mina the Hollower one of the best recreation it might probably probably be. That’s why we’re returning to our roots and kicking off Mina the Hollower’s improvement as a Kickstarter marketing campaign.
Though we’re financing a majority of this venture ourselves, we hope we will create a extra expansive recreation this fashion. More importantly, we need to construct a group round Kickstarter, very similar to we did with Shovel Knight.”
Shovel Knight’s Kickstarter marketing campaign raised over $300,000 again in 2013. Yach Club has since launched numerous DLCs, expansions and spinoffs for it and introduced it to the Switch a number of years after it was launched.
Mina the Hollower will characteristic an 8-bit aesthetic within the model of Game Boy Color titles, with 60fps motion fight. In it you play as Mina, an inventor who can burrow underneath her foes to pop up on the opposite aspect and take them down together with her trusty whip. Mina belongs to Hollower guild, which is devoted to finding out the earth and its latent assets and which has members that may transfer quicker underground.
Yacht Club has but to disclose a launch window for Mina the Hollower, but it surely took over a yr for Shovel Knight to make its solution to backers. You’d should pledge no less than $20 for a digital copy of the sport and no less than $100 for a bodily copy.
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