Shovel Knight Developer Yacht Club Reveals New Game Mina The Hollower
The indie developer behind the hugely successful Shovel Knight franchise has unveiled Mina the Hollower, a new top-down action game with 8-bit looks and fast-paced modern gameplay. Yacht Club Games gained worldwide acclaim with its first game, Shovel Knight, a 2D side-scrolling action-adventure game with clear inspirations from some of the best classic Nintendo Entertainment System games. Since the original game launched in 2014,Shovel Knight has received a few substantial DLC packs, including a couch co-op multiplayer mode and several additional story campaigns. Thanks to the original game's successful crowd-funding efforts, fans received loads of quality content.
Around the beginning of Shovel Knight's development, Yacht Club Games posted the project on the crowd-funding website Kickstarter. When the project began, the small indie developer had a goal of $75,000, and by the end of its campaign, it had raised over #310,000, which allowed for such a tremendous amount of post-launch content. While Yacht Club Games has teased new projects for some time, the indie developer has only now unveiled its newest IP.
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The new game from the makers of Shovel Knight promises a bone-chilling, 8-bit Game Boy Color style experience with its next title Mina the Hollower. Yacht Club Games' announcement, reported via IGN, showed the game in action with a trailer that can be seen below. In the gothic horror-inspired game, players control Mina, a whip-wielding inventor. She must investigate why the Tenebrous Isles have lost power as darkness overtakes the retro-styled world. Fans interested in helping fund the adventure may contribute to Yacht Club Games' Kickstarter Campaign,
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