In a new interview with Bloomberg, Yacht Club Games co-founder Sean Velasco talked about Mina the Hollower's $20 price tag and the game's "make or break" status for the indie institution. Along the way, he talked about Mina's development challenges, one of which might just be the studio's next game.
The immediate future is still Mina-shaped, including support and marketing for the top-down Zelda homage. After that, though? It sounds like a return to Shovel Knight is in the cards, specifically a 3D game the studio was initially developing alongside Mina the Hollower before consolidating all of its resources behind the 2D adventure game.
Velasco characterized the new Shovel Knight as having been halfway through development and "not far from being showable" when Yacht Club pressed pause. From what Velasco said, it sounds like Mina the Hollower was actually the more troubled project, lacking some of the studio's more experienced developers at first and needing some areas to be completely rebuilt.
Splitting the studio into multiple teams, a move that has worked out we...
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