One of Several Indie Announcements Made
During Nintendo’s Nindies@Night Event
During a presentation at Nintendo’s Nindies@Night event at EMP
Museum in Seattle, Nintendo made several announcements about the
future of independent games on the Wii U and Nintendo 3DS systems.
These announcements included the reveal of a Shovel Knight amiibo
figure from Yacht Club Games that unlocks exclusive features for
the hit game on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS, making it the first indie
game to support amiibo technology. Other reveals at the event
include the upcoming launch of Kerbal Space Program for Wii U early
next year with exclusive features and functionality, first-look Wii
U debuts for Hive Jump and FAST Racing Neo multiplayer game play,
along with exciting details concerning each of these anticipated
Nindies.
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For the first time, exclusive to the Wii
U version of the game, players can scan the Shovel Knight amiibo
and take on Shovel Knight’s quest cooperatively with a friend.
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“Not only do we have a robust slate of indie games launching in
the Nintendo eShop, but these games also contain features that can
only be found on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS,” said Damon Baker,
Nintendo of America’s Senior Marketing Manager of Publisher and
Developer Relations. “Creating an amiibo that’s compatible with all
current and future Shovel Knight games shows that our strong
relationship with independent developers is constantly
evolving.”
“It’s been a great honor to work directly with Nintendo,
creating a Shovel Knight amiibo that sits beside their most beloved
characters,” said Yacht Club Games. “We are elated to expand the
world of Shovel Knight, and to keep developing unique game-play
experiences on Nintendo’s platforms.”
For the first time, exclusive to the Wii U version of the game,
players can scan the Shovel Knight amiibo and take on Shovel
Knight’s quest cooperatively with a friend. On Nintendo 3DS and Wii
U, the amiibo can be used to level up and customize Shovel Knight
with new visual enhancements, relics and abilities. These abilities
can then be used in new, exclusive amiibo challenge levels. To top
it off, the amiibo figure will be supported in future Shovel Knight
games.
Yacht Club Games also revealed that the free DLC for Shovel
Knight that lets players play as fan-favorite enemy Plague Knight
will launch in September. Shovel Knight can be purchased in the
Nintendo eShop on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS for $14.99. Packaged
retail versions of the game for both Wii U and Nintendo 3DS will
also be available in North America this October.
Graphite Lab and Black Lantern Studios showcased the first
playable version of Wii U-exclusive Hive Jump, demonstrating
exclusive features for the platform. Hive Jump is a fast-paced
multiplayer action platformer for up to four players. Players
engage in run ’n’ gun combat with swarms of aliens, all the while
avoiding traps and collecting resources. The developers discussed
how the Wii U Game Pad would be used in the game, as well as plans
for amiibo support, which will be included when it launches in the
Nintendo eShop on Wii U in early 2016.
To talk about FAST Racing Neo, Shin’en Multimedia joined the
presentation to discuss multiplayer game play. FAST Racing Neo
earns the title “Fast” by throwing players into a futuristic racer
with hyper-fast anti-gravity vehicles. Up to four players can race
against each other in split-screen local multiplayer, with up to
eight racers able to participate in online multiplayer. (Additional
controllers are required for local multiplayer.) FAST Racing Neo
will launch exclusively in the Nintendo eShop on Wii U before the
end of the year.
Squad’s Kerbal Space Program, with the help of Flying Tiger, was
announced for Wii U and will launch early next year. A
physics-based space flight simulator, Kerbal Space Program allows
players to manage their own space program by building and flying
spacecraft. In the Wii U version of the game, players can control
their ship from inside the cockpit using the Wii U GamePad
controller, as well as create flight plans with the touch screen
and steer with motion controls. The critically acclaimed Kerbal
Space Program will launch in the Nintendo eShop on Wii U.
Nintendo also announced the latest content refresh to the Indie
Game Revolution exhibition hosted by EMP. Visitors to the Seattle
museum are now able to experience new award-winning Wii U games,
including upcoming and recently released content like Typoman
(Headup Games / Brainseed), Year Walk (Simogo / Dakko Dakko) and
The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (Nicalis, Inc).
In all, 19 games were available to play at the Nindies@Night
event at EMP Museum, showcasing a variety of content for all
attendees. All these upcoming games and updates coupled with recent
efforts like Nindies@Home further reinforce the growing support
Nintendo has shown for independent developers. With numerous other
indie games launching on Wii U and Nintendo 3DS in the near future,
fans will always find a wide variety of Nindies to play on Nintendo
systems.
Remember that Wii U and Nintendo 3DS feature parental controls
that let adults manage the content their children can access. For
more information about this and other features, visit
http://www.nintendo.com/wiiu or http://www.nintendo.com/3ds.
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