The devs of this game have been giving away free content for years. Are they insane?

>they put a 66% price hike on the game

Yeah, but they also added a metric shit ton of content. It's basically an early adopter bonus.

Link the newgrounds game with as much soul as Shovel Knight.

>$300,000 dollars is enough to pay an entire studio of developers for 6 fucking years
Probably not, dude.

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Look up castle crashers

That's barely enough money to pay for 1 programmer for 1 year.

Well they also have sold the game, and as far as I know not all expansions have been free on all consoles.

Wait really?
There is a campaign for every boss now?
I thought it was just King knight, plague knight and donut steel

That's a fucking shame
I loved the bomb elements of plague knight, i just wish the lvls were different like in specter of tormet
Fun fact
A guy gets turned into a qt wizard girl during the credits

That's a retail game, motherfucker. You won't find the full Castle Crashers on Newgrounds.

newgrounds.com/portal/view/254456

I talked to the devs at pax years ago and they said they don't like the way sales work now, where everything is just a race to the bottom. so instead of putting it on sale all the time, they just keep adding more to the game until it reaches a similar "gameplay value/price" ratio. so maybe you didn't think shovel knight was worth $25, well how about sk + plague knight? how about sk + pk + specter knight? maybe sk + pk + spk + king knight? now instead of 1 game on sale for 25% the price, you're getting 4 games for 100% the price. I think it's an interesting approach

no they're just literal gods amongst men

they actually like video games so maybe I suppose

I don't believe you...but it would be an excuse for WHATS TAKING SO FUCKING LONG FOR KING KNIGHT JESUS CHRIST REEEEEE
I'm glad I get it for free tho

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no that's exactly what's happening. king of cards and showdown are releasing together, and showdown will have a story mode for each character and there's over 16 characters

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>there's over 16 characters
I knew about the rest, but this comes as a surprise. How are there this many characters? I thought it was going to be just Shovel and the Knights of No Quarter.

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there's also black knight, shield knight, and some mooks

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here's 10 minutes of showdown gameplay if you haven't seen it before youtu.be/Nr81mmA_inA

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There is no way it's going to be a full story for each character that's insane

>this game kills the cAAApitalism
based

Soul...

if my boy Dragonarmor doesn't make in as a Goldarmor skin, I'll call it bullshit

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I bet it'll be like adventure mode in melee

>King of Cards and Showdown delayed AGAIN
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA I WANNA PLAY IT NOOOOOOOOOOW

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Neat. Looks fun enough. Still looking forward to King of Cards more though.

Sure, but with story cutscene splash images in between.

At least it's definitely coming. Now my April is freed up for Bloody Palace and that Power Rangers game.

I have a question. If I buy the shovel knight ps4 physiscal will I get plague knight and specture knight as well.

>There is a campaign for every boss now?
He's talking about the Showdown mode, that has a single player story for every playable character.

yachtclubgames.com/2019/02/last-stop-before-treasure-trove/

Yeah at least on the bright side it gives me more time to get those last four achievements for Specter Knight.

Yeah, you'll have to update though.

>and as far as I know not all expansions have been free on all consoles.
All of them were free on every system, though they did increase the price of the base game (Treasure Trove) and managed to earn a lot more money through physical releases, digital sales and the amiibo.

is there some other physical version that's out now? because the treasure trove version that isn't out yet comes out the day the last big content pack comes out and will include everything yachtclubgames.com/2018/08/the-shovel-knight-finale-treasure-trove-physical-version/

I wonder if this guy has a chance.

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There's a physical PS4 edition, and maybe one for XBone but I'm not sure. Part of the appeal for those were the exclusive boss fights with Kratos/Battletoads.

Speaking of, Sony Santa Monica confirmed that Kratos in Shovel Knight is canon and happens between GoW3 and GoWPS4. That's why his fight happens near snowy mountains; he's traveling North.

>Battletoads
Heads up, they're on the PC version as well.

oh yeah I forgot about those extra fights. I assume they're also available on their respective systems' digital versions though. I should replay shovel knight since I know they added battletoads to the pc version as well

>I assume they're also available on their respective systems' digital versions though.
Of course, why wouldn't they be?

I cannot fucking believe I'm going to have to break out the Wii U one last time for King Knight.

just the way that was worded made it sound like the appeal of the physical version over the digital version was the fights. my bad

it's one of the few games I've double dipped on, because at the time I had such a shit computer I wasn't even sure I could run shovel knight so I got my kickstarter copy on the wii u. and I knew I didn't want to have to keep using it to play the other updates, so I bought it on steam during one of its rare sales

Same. I got my money's worth out of Shovel of Hope on Wii U, so I felt alright double dipping during a Switch eShop sale as I'll be getting the other campaigns on there.

Now if they port W101 I'll never need my WiiU again, so I can either turn it into a ROM dump or sell it.

They’ve admitted how they basically had no cash remaining like 3 months before vanilla Shovel Knight.
Also Jake Kaufman did the music upfront saying he’d take a cut of the profit later

I’m not much of a completionist but they are some fun achievements to get
How much time did I waste perfecting Polar Knight’s level

holy shit thats actually kinda interesting

>makes baller music
>releases all music he does for free on his bandcamp
>agrees to get paid for his music later once they have some money
kaufman is a bro

He really is a legend. He's been putting out top-shelf shit for a couple decades now and he just really likes doing what he does.

I think it's also impressive how wide of a range he has, like compare his work on boot hill heroes, shovel knight, shantae, switch force, and double dragon neon. there's a ton of different genres in there and they're all great

Jake Kaufman and Mick Gordon have to be the best composers of this gen

His specter knight remixes are some top tier stuff

The average programmer only makes about $45,000/yr. It's a shit gig.

youtube.com/watch?v=HINqWMdMxZo
youtube.com/watch?v=BU-WZf81cg8
youtube.com/watch?v=MXPTsvDaNrg

How does he do it?

>free content
>content promised on release
Honestly, its just an excuse to keep releasing it on new platforms. Considering how little overhead this studio must have compared to bigger companies, this has to be the most profitable 2D platformer ever made.