When Shovel Knight originally kicked off we focused entirely on making the original Shovel Knight campaign the absolute best! It’s the game we originally pitched and knew we wanted to spend all of our efforts and energy polishing the core campaign. Yacht Club is currently working on all campaigns at once – Specter Knight and King Knight – plus Body Swap and Battle Mode features. You can see some animated images and a rundown of the character’s different moves here.Īs for when the Specter Knight campaign is launching, that’s still unknown at this point. Yacht Club Games posted a new blog today that covers the upcoming Specter Knight campaign from Shovel Knight in-depth. Playtonic also indicated that there aren’t any other guest characters in Yooka-Laylee, but the studio is open to the idea. After receiving an explanation and practicing on a Skype call, Yacht Club went through the steps of how Playtonic creates the mumbling voices, and the result was added to the title directly. Shovel Knight’s way of speaking in Yooka-Laylee will be “authentic”.

It was also important to include a character that could appear on all platforms. Playtonic then turned to Yacht Club Games’ Shovel Knight after thinking about how it was a “much-loved game” with a team that “shares the same kinds of values we do as developers and has created something fantastic in the past”. Playtonic and Team17, who is working with Playtonic on Yooka-Laylee, discussed the idea of featuring a guest character. It’s been revealed that Shovel Knight will be joining the game as a special guest character. During a developer panel at EGX just a few moments ago, a new trailer was shown for Yooka-Laylee.

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