Shovel Knight Unearthed with Yacht Club Games

Nintendo Power Podcast

Chris Slate

Video Games, Leisure

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Masterclass gameplay, pixel-perfect nostalgia and laugh-out-loud storytelling have taken Shovel Knight from indie darling to blockbuster franchise. In celebration of the game’s final new campaign after seven years of ongoing development, host Chris Slate talks to Sean Velasco and Sandy Gordon from Yacht Club Games about the game’s creation and evolution, and what comes next. The group also recommends games they’ve been enjoying, takes the Warp Zone Quiz and picks their top upcoming titles for Nintendo Switch! 00:30 – Shovel Knight Unearthed with Yacht Club Games 39:41 – Pro’s Picks 45:57 – Warp Zone Quiz 49:43 – Game Forecast Games discussed have been rated EVERYONE to MATURE by the ESRB. If you would like to share any feedback or ideas for the podcast, or submit a question to possibly be answered in a future episode, please email us at [email protected]. Follow Nintendo on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Nintendo/ Follow Nintendo on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NintendoAmerica Subscribe to Nintendo on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/nintendo

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0:00.0	Games rated E to M. Welcome to Nintendo Power Podcast. This episode we talk with the
0:17.8	developers of Shovel Knight to unearth the stories behind one of the biggest
0:21.2	indie games of all time.
0:23.0	My name is Chris Slate and
0:30.0	My name is Chris Slate and joining me today is Sean Velasco from Yacht Club Games who was the director of Shovel Knight Treasure Trove.
0:37.0	Hi Sean.
0:38.0	Hey how's it going?
0:39.0	Happy to be here. Great and also Sandy Gordon who is one of the Pixel Artists on the game.
0:42.0	How are you?
0:43.4	Hey there, I'm pretty well.
0:43.9	Great.
0:44.4	Well, thanks both you for coming on the show
0:45.8	and I'm very excited to have you here.
0:48.1	I'm a huge fan of Shovel Knight, and in fact,
0:50.7	some of our regular guests have kind of teased me because I always find a way to mention the game just about every episode.
0:55.6	Nice, thank you.
0:56.6	So it's a special treat for me to be able to talk to you guys.
0:59.6	And find an official reason to just talk about nothing but Shovel Knight for a while.
1:03.2	Yeah, that's what we love to do. We love talking about all things, Shovel Knight and Nintendo, so we're definitely
1:07.8	excited to talk to you. Yeah. Awesome, awesome. So it turns out there's obviously a lot more fans of the game than just me.
1:15.0	We went out on social media and asked all the other Shovel Knight Super-Fans what they'd like to ask you.
1:19.0	And we had a great, great response.
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