Would you hinge the survival of your company on a Game Boy Color game?
>>730573159There's too many fucking mechanics going on at once in this thing. No Gameboy Color game was ever like this. Pick one or two gimmicks to go with, not like six separate ones plus full speed modern processing power. It's just disorienting and inaccurate
>>730573258mice didn't copulate with human men back then either, yet here we are
If I was planning on hinging the survival of my company on a GBC game, I sure as shit would not be taking 4 years to make it.
>>730573159No, but I would rather stay in my mother's basement instead of getting an office in the most expensive place ever
>>730573159I NEED TO BUY A FUCKING GRILL
>>730573159No, lmao
>>730573159I think the colors in the game are dogshit. the devs clearly lost their magic back in Shovelknight
>>730573159I’ve still got the demo on my switch. Is it a collectors item now?
>>730574121It's more that a game can look like an NES game and still look good while the GBC is fundamentally ugly and awful and it's impossible to make authentic GBC visuals that don't suck
>>730573159how can the company survive if the game never comes out
>>730573159Yes
>>730573159Come now they only have to sell... *gulp* 200k - 500k copies at... *double gulp* at least $25 to not anger backers.
>>730573159All they had to do was add eyelashes to the rat.
They are not hinging their company on thst game, they just overspent hiring trannies and ecelebs to do some guess work on shovel knight 3d and they need more cashIf this fails get ready for another kickstarter
So what exactly went wrong with Yacht Club? Shovel Knight Kickstarted a gorillion dollars and over delivered on its promises to a high critic and playerbase acclaim and became the posterboy for le indie pixelart retro game done right. SK (the character) made an appearance in a dozen other games. You'd think that with kind of success the studio wouldn't be in a do-or-die mode.
>>730579337Literally resting on its laurels>make a successful game in a platform that makes sense for it (DS/3DS) in an era where 8-bit was beginning to be scarce>release new spinoff of same game but keep it fresh with different PCs and mechanicsThis is where is starts going downhill:>make spinoff of said major IP that literally no one asked for multiple times>hired more people than you should. While 15 doesnt seem like a lot, it adds up>renting a studio space in LA>covid happens, STILL paying for rent oj that studio despite working at home>radio silence>Mina, with a concept that seems good on the surface but is tone deaf at the fact that "retro" inspired games are a dime a dozen now.
>>730579337Literally spent a massive chunk of their money on office rent in one of the most expensive part of the entire world
>>730573159Don't know, I just want it to come out already so I can play through it
>>730580056>release date unknownpffft good luck
>>730579985what in god's name drives game devs to move to LA
>>730580116>that's where all the talent is broooo
>>730573365>>730577612>>730579692Now that's a game I'd hinge the survival of my company on!
>>730579337>So what exactly went wrong with Yacht Clubrent
im pretty sure it's a cool game with top tier feel.I have no doubt in Yacht Clubbut yea /v/pol/-faggots will be spamming hate threads and "OMG THEY ARE DONE" and "THEY DOOMED" threads (such fags only interested in modern artstyle and obviously Mina with classic look will turn them off or plebs like this >>730573258 will cry "too many things :("Day 1 buy for me because i like cool games
thought they would have made some revenue whoring out Shovel Knight to every other game in the world.
>>730573159Cheesed to bankrupt you
>>730580464If anything I think Mina didn't stick to the GBC style enoughIt picks and chooses which limitations of the GBC to stick with, and the end result looks kind of funkyFor example, the screen size is simply too large and spread out. This is an easy fix, add a thick Super Gameboy-like border to scale the size down a bit so it is easier to visually digestPlaying this game fullscreen is going to be an exercise in sufferingI'm sure it looks great on handhelds though
>>730580664>Mina didn't stick to the GBC style enoughobviously it didn't go 100%gbcdoing a GBC game in 2026 would be pretty fucking stupid.>>730580664>For example, the screen size is simply too large and spread out.are you retardedI will be playing it on PC/steamdeck not GBC. Of course it should be bigger. what kind of retarded opinion is this.>>730580664>I'm sure it looks great on handhelds thoughSo yeahit will be a huge hit becuase people play such games on Switch/Switch2/Steam Deck
>>730577645You're joking, but if there's ever a 3D Shovel Knight game and I hear fucking ProZD's voice coming out of King Knight's mouth there's going to be hell to pay.
>>730580664>the screen size is simply too large and spread outI think it's not large enough jk
>>730581076gonna need to break out a magnifying glass for that shit lmaowonder how that would be on a fuckhuge 4K display though
>>730580464>im pretty sure it's a cool game with top tier feel.>I have no doubt in Yacht ClubI agree.I remember /v/ going nuts over UFO50 but in reality it's just a bunch of simple games that most people don't even finish.Mina is like ufo50 but just one (1) game but good and you want to 100% it when most of the game is just "whatever" (i do like that tiny-something metroidvania they added, but after a week i forgot where i was going and now it's impossible to remember what i did and what i didn't and i'm not going to start over so i abandoned it (same about Submarine metroidvania game and another game like that about Diving Lizards. UFO-50 is full of stuff like that)
>>730579985reminds me of telltale>make one successful game>convince yourself you are one of the "big ones">overspend on shit you can't actually affordexcept telltale also wrung itself dry by releasing a shit ton of games, so much so it was competing with itself
>>730573159>>730573159it's globohomo that's why it is failing
>>730581220>it's globohomohow so
>>730581220Actually: "Release date: to be announced" is why it's failing
>>730579985Pipstrello was the kiss of death to this garbage.
>>730581329>release date?>when it's donebasedThat why indies are different from AAA-slop>w-we have to release our game today!! :( s-so what if it's upolished??? :(
>>730574647Shantae and the Zelda games showed me that oversaturated games can work
>>730579985You are fucking idiot>3ds/dswhatliterally everybody played it on PC.>waah spinoffsSpinoffs are top tier. King Knight is 10/10.
>>730581397wtfis this real
>>730581270Because... well... just trust me bro, because it totally is.
>>730573159can someone give me a QRD on this game? why is everyone shitting on it? did the devs do anything wrong?
>>730582562nobody is shitting on it.it's basically the only next game after Shovel Knight and normies arent crazy over it because "durr hurr why it looks like game boy"
>>730581450He's not referring to the extra campaigns, he's referring to the spinoffs no one bought, dig and pocket dungeon.
mouse thighs
>>730582562Well there is this whole it raised 1.2M (i think) on kickstarter and for some reason has to sell 200k copies.
>>730583816squeeze
>>730573258>fucking mechanics
>>730583816>mouse thighscatch eyes
>>730574647>and it's impossible to make authentic GBC visuals that don't suckhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYTNpsbSQJAAtlantis was literally on the GBC and looked fucking stellar.
>>730573159not sure if this game is gonna do well but it is literally a game made specifically for me since I played the shit out of the capcom zeldas, I hope the charm system is actually fleshed out though and end up better than the rings from the oracle games, uranium bracelet was cool as a "oh you're hot shit and stubborn enough to waste time fighting a boss you're supposed to lose against so here's the hot shit trinket" but I'd love to see more varied effects that actually change how the game is played
>>730573159bet they wish they had this money right about now lol
>>730573365100% this... holy shit, I'll be pirating this day one just for the potential story fuck up. I'm not expecting a grand story, but when you market the game as a "harrowing, yet heartwarming tale!", I expect a wholesome, potential love story, just like Plague Knights', but zero HMOFA, only a Mina and Thorne, anthro on anthro, relationship. If they even think of making/transforming Mina into a human, I won't even give it a second glance. Instant drop. Controller unplugged. Moving on. Even if HMFOA is slightly IMPLIED! It's that Disney movie Sword in the Stone scenario all over again. I remember jack about the plot. The only scene that stuck with me was the female Squirrel one. The immense disappointment I got when the faggot, Wart/Arthur, transformed back to a human, only to leave the squirrel girl heartbroken. This was also like what... 30 minutes into the movie? I stuck till the end to see if the he would transform back. NOPE! Squirrel never made an appearance again. I will not be making that mistake again. Ruined the movie for me and began my hatred for HMOFA. Movie is on par with The Secret of NIMH 2, that sad excuse of a musical. Spit on these two pieces of media. The lore I got from the demo is that Mina is a potential mother figure to the orphans. Add that to humans being present in this world, it's already on edge.
>>730581076made by one guy and released for FREE, meanwhile Shitclub needs 100 million dollars in crowdfunding and 10 years.
>>730573159If I was a company stupid enough to give money to BLM, I sure as shit would be this stupid to make a bet like this in regards to my company that is known for just re-releasing the same 8-bit platformer for over a decade.
>>730585615They had Henk Nieborg working on the graphics, that guy is a goddamn master of pixel art.
>>730573365>>730585790holy shizo babbles, where did you fucks get that from my post
>>730573258>and inaccurateAre you one of the people who for some inexplicable reason, cry over Shovel Knight not actually being an NES game? Why? The game doesn't need to be an NES. Does not look like an NES game. And is not an NES game. So what is the problem with it not being an NES game? People really love to create problems for themselves.
>>730585790You are truly a psychopath among men.
>>730585790Based. Blueballing should be outlawed.
Mina the Mongoose
>>730580464The demo was trash. It was so bad they delayed the game indefinitely lmao.
>>730585790>Anon having a breakdown over his lore head canonI know it's a shit post but damn with this board who knows
I've been playing Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo so I don't need Mina.
>>730581165it's ludo>>730586951this game was awesome but mina could easily outdo it by being even slightly challenging or having good bosses (haven't played the demo btw)
>>730585790
>>730585721No wonder libs are trying so desperately to milk that retarded ventilated lesbian right now, that suffocating spook brought in so much goddamn money in 2020. Not gonna work though, because George Foid wasn't black.
>>730573894Why do my Bribsy pics get deleted everytime I post in one of these threads?You got a problem or something, chump?
>>730587118spoonfeed me the link for link's awakening thing you're using anon
>>730587620https://github.com/BigheadSMZ/Zelda-LA-DX-HD-Updated
I could imagine the porting process between multiple consoles would slow the process down a little, yeah?
>>730587979>Someone actually pulled an AM2R on it and continued updating it.Incredible. Does it still end at the fifth or sixth dungeon or is it fully complete now?
>>730580116Again, YC in particular was already in the area when they started out. They just made the braindead decision to move further into one of the richest parts of LA because they were on that lottery winner mindset.
When is it actually releasing though?
>>730589150they're too busy trying to rehome the office grill to work on the game
>>730573159Who is she hollowing?
>>730589150February 14th
>>730585615its impressive, but I dont like it.
>donate heavily to the BLM scam>then ask for handouts to finish their gamethey deserve failure for that alone.not serious people.
>>730573159it's gonna sell a million copies in like a month, they'll be fine
>>730573159It's never coming out
>>730573159it'll do really well commercially, but pipistrello is probably going to be the better game
>>730588005No. Not really these days, architecturally speaking, and asset fidelity will certainly not be an issue either for a faux-retro game.
>>730589560Hollowers are basically the in-universe term for geologists who can burrow underground faster than they can move on the surface.
>>730573159>game boy color gameMina The Hollower looks like putrid shit compared to an actual game boy color game lol. I hope this flops
>>730585790Classic disney is practically the opposite of HMOFA (corpo doing everything to dodge bestiality allegations = no interspecies romance allowed) and the origin of hardline furfags and their misanthropy. If this is your takeaway and you're blaming this on anything other than corporate/societal mandate then you're just an idiot.
>>730573159why would they have any reason to think millions of people won't buy this game? they have the journos in their pockets, and plenty of people who played shovel knight a decade ago to do lots of free evangelizing for themthe only thing they have to do is make sure the game isn't garbage
I'm pretty sure they delayed the game because they saw the streamers having problems with the demo and probably the game has a difficulty spike after it.
>>730573159Mouse lady game with a whip Damn, sounds cool! I might check it ou->GBC-esque game, literally over 20 years out of dateNah I'll pass, I thought it'd have actual effort put into it>B-But the spritework and-Shut up, Metal Slug has good spritework and effort. This is laziness.
>>730590089so she's a digger
did they wait too long to release it? did all the people who played and enjoyed hollow knight die of old age or otherwise age out of the gamer population by starting families or whatever, and no-one else is around to vouch for them?
>>730590253If it's not friendslop, streamerbait, or if it doesn't have a built in ~community~ then zoomoids aren't going to touch it. They need another SK-tier success otherwise they'll implode under their own retardation developing SK3D.
>>730573159I truly love Shovel Knight and the later campaigns but the demo for this was very clearly "what if soulslike with Link's Awakening camera" and it was not for me. Now Yacht Club is saying they'll fucking die if it flops while I have no interest in buying it which feels bad.
>>730590656zoomoids already only play roblox and fortnite, they don't play normal games. that's been set in stone for years now.core gamers are basically only millenials, age brackets above and below them are into other shit
>>730573258>bloodborne but topdown gbc>you dig instead of rollThats the game. Its not that complicated, anon.Again, for the retards, this isnt a bad zelda game, it isnt trying to be one
>>730573159Does she come out of the screen and suck you off like hella? If not then no.
Didnt these fags support blm? Fuck them, ill pirate it
>>730573159You know they're seething at how well Silksong's existence was received>promise 3 extra playable characters and a battle mode as stretch goals>make the 2nd and 3rd characters into completely new campaigns that are practically new games>so high quality and different from the original that they could easily get away with calling them Shovel Knight 2 and Shovel Knight 3>have to make the new campaigns free because they were promised as stretch goals>eventually raise the price of the game and let people buy each campaign seperately for the original price of the game>price change is received well and causes the game to make more money from new buyers, but the 1.5+ million people who already owned the original still get the new campaigns for free>fast forward to Hollow Knight kickstarter>kickstarter promises an extra playable character>game releases and does extremely well>devs announce that they've decided to make a sequel starring the 2nd character instead of making them playable in the first game>sequel costs $5 more than the first game despite the 2nd playable character being promised as a stretch goal for the first game>literally nobody complains, practically zero criticism whatsoever>sequel releases and sells wellYou just know Yacht Club regrets giving Specter of Torment and King of Cards away for free. So much needlessly lost money.
I pirated shovel knight and I'm not going to support them by pirating this.
>>730573159Wasn't this game supposed to come out like 3 years ago?
Where's the game? Where's the demo?
>>730594472the demo was only available for a short time for some stupid reason, you can find it on archive.org
>>730588059it was always fully completeable... I beat it with the 1.0 version. The problem is the physics around holes (sliding into the center) isn't quite right and some enemies don't behave exactly the same.
Why the panicking? Is there any news they're in dire straits or are people speculating?
>>730593856Silksong was given away for free for Hollow Knight backers thoughever.
>>730594710they wasted all their money on stupid shit and now are on the verge of bankruptcy
>>730581175fucking weird comparison, is UFO50 the only game you pretended to play last year or something?
>>730573258>No Gameboy Color game was ever like this.Good? Even if you're trying to emulate the GBC visual style there is no reason to adhere to the limitations of the hardware.
>>730594710Apparently Mina needs to sell at the very least 200'000 units or the studio will go under.Sucks cause the game doesn't even look that good, but they're also making a 3d shovel knight and I'm really interested in that. Dunno if they'll survivre.
>>730595178Is that number before or after backer sales?
>>730594710They cried to Bloomberg about how they're struggling so they wrote an article for them.
>>730573159Worked for Shantae
>>730595356>mediocre game trying to cash in on coom brained consumersYou know what, you might have a point.
>>730573159Looks too much like GBC zelda.I didn't feel like hollow knight lifted any one particular game's style but Mina is too similar to GBC zelda for its own good.Maybe I'm just old.
>>730573159We already got a good GameBoy style game 5 years ago
nice
>>730594523Really? I remember in the launch threads people saying it had an ending message in one of those dungeons which is why the takedown was so annoying. Good to know then.
>>730595608This game was good. The sequel (Veritas) however was absolute dogshit.
>>730595608With a sequel, multiple games in different styles and a new game coming up this year. The fuck is taking so long for Mina?
Is this on GBC or GBA? When are they making carts?This seriously isn't digital-only, is it? In an age where we have GB Studio and a dozen new GBC games coming out each year?
>>730596421>GB StudioEvery single game I've played that was made in this is complete shit.
Speaking of GBC games, what are the best GBC games to play?Was planning to play the two Zelda oracle games. Also GBC roms can be emulated by GBA emus right?
HEY BIG SPENDER!DIG THIS BLENDER!SPEND A LITTLE DOUGH AT YACHT CLUB GAMES!https://losangeles.craigslist.org/wst/gms/d/los-angeles-software-company-office/7903286664.html
>>730596770Damn
>>730596770Rough. Wish I lived nearby, I'd scoop some of the Shovel Knight stuff if they have any.
>>730596630So then why do these people emulate a style for hardware they have no intention of supporting? And at least GB Studio is capable of making games, unlike this dev team.
>>730595356WF never hinged their company on the success of Shantae. Every title was either on backburner with a skeleton crew during development of other projects or had external funding one way or another.
>>730573159I am not into indie games and never played Shovel Knight but this game looks alright. You are probably right though.
>>730596258Any of these good?
>>730573159Deserved after shitting up the industry by plastering shovel knight everywhere for years instead of making a new game. Rest in shit
>>730596770oh fuck I didn't think they needed money THAT bad. Grim.
>>730581076>>730587118I wish we had an port of the Oracle games likes this so fucking much.
>>730581329>Mention Shovel Knight twiceWhy did they bench Shovel Knight 3D for this...
>>730597076I dunno, why do you whittle away your days posting retarded bait?
>>730596770Why would you have a smoker in a 5th floor office?
>>730598018>inb4 this shitware game is considered GOTY by legions of shitposters on /v/ for the sole purpose of being contrarian
>>730585790I felt bad for the female squirrel too. A gentleman would’ve ended his quest and let her do whatever she wanted. I know I would have.
>>730598408a man’s gotta eat
>>730596770Imagine going to a big expensive office to draw 16x16 pixel art mice to try and save your company?
>>730598408for the planned interior BBQ session if the game doesn't sell well
>>730596770It's still impressive it lasted that long with just one game so far.
>>730585790The female squirrel was actually in the wrong here for not accepting human male as their sexual partner. She was immediately disgusted. If she stuck around a deal could have been made where Merlin turns Arthur into a squirrel once in a while to fuck the shit out of her and make her pregnant. Women are always 100% in the wrong.
>>730596770Damn, they were 40 minutes away and I got 10k burning a hole in my pocket. I could have cleaned them out. You just know soilennial devs like these have a CRT or two in the office.
>>730583816Yes
>>730585790it doesn't happen often, but when it does it always feels special to post
>>730598437Who are you quoting?
>>730585790Based, I'm actually trying to make a furry game with no humans in it, no blueballing like in zootopia either
>>730596770I fucking hate these kinds of table, they're so fucking low.What a waste of space.
>>730573159>hinge the survival of your companyAren't they pretty wealthy with the (deserved) success of Shovel Knight?And when is the game coming out?
>>730595497Nintendo refuses to make traditional new Zelda games so that's fine to me.
>>730596712Pretty sure mGBA also plays GBC games, yeah
>>730604507You know how some people win the lottery, but are turbo retarded when it comes to handling money and thus become poor again after overexpending?That's them with Shovel Knight's success.
>>730596421Pretty sure the kickstarter promised a physical release>>730597760Closer to completion and also cheaper to make
>>730602516Wait, Was there a game in the works/concept art made? Or something else, explain further please?
>>730604939No, don't want to attract schizos, but you might have seen it in the game dev threads
>>730604507They delayed Mina over 2-3 years now and were also working on a new 3D Shovel Knight game that they had to stop development on since Mina went from a side project to needing all hands on deck to get it out the door, so they're over budget and sank too much into an IP that doesn't have the appeal of Shovel Knight, despite doing a kickstarter for Mina and claiming they already had outside funding to create the game and the kickstarter was more of a bonus for them.Add in stuff like donating to various "charities" and also moving their indie studio to one of the most expensive locations in the USA right across the street from an outdoor carnival at the dock and you get stuff like >>730596770where they're having to sell off stuff and now relocate their office.Turns out that they are not, in fact, doing all that well after blowing all their Shovel Knight money.
>>730579337A lot of the original 2010's generation of indies where Gen X and older Millennials that existed in a world where the old boomer dogma of "always scale up" still made sense. They had a smash hit, why wouldn't you keep expanding the company? You have to keep making big and better games. Almost all of the still successful indies from that time like Team Cherry never grew much beyond the original team size and made direct sequels to their hit games.>>730595356Way Forward was literally a shovelware company making licensed 3rd party slop to keep the lights on. They had to spend more then 10 years in the shovelware mines before they could even secure the funding to make the newer Shantae games.
>>730605036Ah, well we don't want that. Thank you sir.
>>730605230>one of the most expensive locations in the USA right across the street from an outdoor carnival at the dockWas the yacht club thing literal? As in, they had their office across from/next to a yacht club?
>>730604852>>730605230Damn. How can talented devs be so retarded.>Add in stuff like donating to various "charities"Like what?
>>730605230It's mindboggling that a company would be so idiotic with handling money, when not going under is a company's whole goal.You'd expect there to be a dedicated employee, at least, tasked with handling finance that would tell them "please please for the love of God stop spending so much company cash on useless dumb shit"
>>730605510BLM
>>730606264Bad Little Monkeys.
>>730606680Buying Large Mansions
>>730606264Not just BLM. The part of BLM that gets violent criminals out of jail. >>730605496About 10 miles from a yacht club. About 5 miles from the West Hollywood party scene. So, not yacht club adjacent, but the part of los angeles that the people living there say "FUCK that's expensive about". Pic related is a few miles away but visible from the balcony. They have a goddam roller coaster there. Play VTM bloodlines or Harley Davidson Sega to see that in action.
>Don't have your office in the most expensive city in the world>Make the mouse girl sexierEasy slam dunk but they're fumbling it
>>730573159>make furfag game>company diesAbsolutely hilarious!
>>730599218Lmao. More than a feeling...
>>730607839>make furfag game with zero budget>sell millionswtf webfishing????
>>730605669The problem is that they had legitimate success with Shovel Knight and thought they could do no wrong with all that goodwill and money they generated, but the fact is they're like that guy who did Psychonauts and all these others devs that honestly needed a Bobby Kotick to kick them in the ass and do the business aspect of running a business, since now it looks like they'll end up having to either sell the studio or the IPs and shutter the doors at this rate since they just didn't have people in a position to tell them "No" to feature creep and other things that ended up bloating Mina and all.
more like mina the swallower am i right fellas
>>730612369What does mouse crotch smell like?
>>730573159This game got blacked by the blm and it's hilarious
>>730596770One of the only good things to me about living in a big expensive city was how crazy good craigslist was.
>>730612653>During Covid, city had a sudden spike in Bike getting stolen all over>Suddenly, craigslist has listing of Bikes looking almost brand new for around $500
>>730582731>it's basically the only next game after Shovel Knight and normies arent crazy over it because "durr hurr why it looks like game boy"well duh, pixelslop is cringe nowit's all about PS1/N64 esque lowpoly games now if you want to make big indie bucks
>>730612369Featureless crotcho sexo
Sorry. I already got my fix for a faux-retro game starring a bottomless anthro girl casually showing off her ass and nussy a couple years ago.
>finally, a competent game inspired by 2D Zelda, built to look like Link's Awakening>actually this game is focused most on combat and we're Dark Souls nowLet them go under.
>>730618218Wait they turned it into a fucking Soulslike/Soulslite??? Those niggers. Now would've been a PERFECT time for a 2D Zelda throwback, especially with BotW Fatigue starting to become palpable.
