Shovel Knight is a well-crafted homage to the golden age of NES platformers (read our review!), but that doesn't mean it could actually run on Nintendo's beloved 8-bit console. Children of the 80s ...

Yacht Club Games designed Shovel Knight with the challenge of an NES platformer. But after that, all they did was tweak and redesign so as to turn the difficulty down to acceptable levels .

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Yacht Club Games, the developer of Shovel Knight, looked back at the platformers of the NES era for inspiration.Their goal was to “make really awesome original games that use modern and retro ...

Shovel Knight is an indie 2D platformer from Yacht Club Games for the 3DS, WiiU, and PC. This marks the developers first release. The game uses 8-bit graphics, and the gameplay is a throwback to ...

Shovel Knight artist says throwback games need 'retro authenticity' but can't coast on nostalgia alone: 'Part of the appeal of the NES era of game making was that everything ... 2D platformers.

If you've answered "yes", then we've a feeling you're going to love Bat Boy, an 8-bit action-platformer from X PLUS Games that takes everything great from Shovel Knight and Mega Man and lumps it ...

Specter Knight lacks the extensive map of Shovel Knight's campaign, instead relying on a central hub and a magic mirror to choose between stages, bringing the series closer to Mega Man.

Though tons of NES games make up Shovel Knight's DNA, the most obvious mechanical comparison is Capcom's 1990 platformer DuckTales. Shovel Knight's unique, titular weapon behaves like Scrooge ...

Inspired by the retro aesthetics and mechanics of classic NES platformers, Shovel Knight popped up on the scene after a successful Kickstarter campaign in 2014.

Shovel Knight Dig is perhaps too modest to be the next great roguelike, but it’s another fascinating piece of the franchise’s ongoing conversation with video game history.It further twists ...

Rarely does a game come around that feels so good to play. But Shovel Knight, a new indie game from Yacht Club Games, fits the bill. The game was successfully Kickstarted in April of last year and ...