Shovel Knight Devs Make 7 Years Worth of Art Available To Use
Art from the hit 2D side-scrolling platformer, Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, has been made available for public use by developer Yacht Club games. The well-known indie developer hasn't forgotten its first success, even as it gears up for its next project, Mina the Hollower, a top-down adventure game inspired by gothic horror and the classic titles of the Game Boy era.
Shovel Knight, which was completely crowdfunded as a Kickstarter project, was released in 2014 for PC, Nintendo 3DS, and Wii U. Since the game’s launch, it has been ported to even more systems and stands as one of the greatest side-scrollers of the modern era. Additional campaigns were released for the game and were put together in 2019 as Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove, which stands as the most complete way to play the game today. Shovel Knight is lauded for its retro graphical style, unique level design, and a combat system that makes it stick out from other games of its kind. It is widely regarded as one of the most historically significant indie games.
Related: Every Time Shovel Knight Showed Up In Another Game
Just recently, the team at Yacht Club Games made an announcement via a blog post on the Kickstarter page for Mina the Hollower. The developer has announced that all of the widely praised artwork from Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove will be made available to the public. The art bundle, which contains nearly a gigabyte of pixel art compressed in a .zip file, sports assets like sprites, backgrounds, animations, and menu art that have been used since the very first version of the game was released in 2014. Yacht Club Games cited its devotion to helping small game developers as its reasoning for publishing the art bundle, pointing out one anecdote about
Read more on screenrant.com
