Yacht Club Games, the developer behind the favored throwback platformer Shovel Knight, has announced a model new IP. It’s a top-down “bone-chilling action adventure” entitled Mina the Hollower that is impressed by Gothic Horror and is ready in a weird world filled with monster. The firm has introduced the brand new sport at an occasion, the place it has additionally launched the Kickstarter campaign to assist fund its growth. According to IGN, Yacht Club Games director and designer Alec Faulkner stated the developer is financing a majority of the mission, nevertheless it’s returning to Kickstarter to construct a neighborhood and get suggestions from backers.

Faulkner stated:

“We need your suggestions, collaboration, and assist in making Mina the Hollower the very best sport it might probably probably be. That’s why we’re returning to our roots and kicking off Mina the Hollower’s growth as a Kickstarter marketing campaign.

Though we’re financing a majority of this mission ourselves, we hope we are able to create a extra expansive sport this manner. More importantly, we need to construct a neighborhood round Kickstarter, very like we did with Shovel Knight.”

Shovel Knight’s Kickstarter marketing campaign raised over $300,000 again in 2013. Yach Club has since launched varied DLCs, expansions and spinoffs for it and introduced it to the Switch just a few years after it was launched.

Mina the Hollower will function an 8-bit aesthetic within the fashion of Game Boy Color titles, with 60fps motion fight. In it you play as Mina, an inventor who can burrow below her foes to pop up on the opposite aspect and take them down together with her trusty whip. Mina belongs to Hollower guild, which is devoted to learning the earth and its latent assets and which has members that may transfer sooner underground. 

Yacht Club has but to disclose a launch window for Mina the Hollower, nevertheless it took over a yr for Shovel Knight to make its solution to backers. You’d must pledge not less than $20 for a digital copy of the sport and not less than $100 for a bodily copy.