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Yacht Club on Manami's input on Shovel Knight, Nintendo and indie devs, moving away from sexy characters
Coming from a Reddit AMA with Yacht Club...
How composer Manami Matsumae got involved...
"It was crazy, we got an email from the guys over at Koopa Soundworks ( koopa.tv ) asking if instead of money support, if they could just put us in touch with the legendary composer of the first Mega Man game. We immediately took him up on his offer! She's very excited about working with us and Virt [composer Jake Kaufman] to make this soundtrack really fun!" - Yacht Clubs' Nick Woznia
Nintendo's more relaxed approach to indie devs...
"Nintendo's changes have made it possible for us to develop for them; namely they relaxed rules on who can get dev kits, and changed how their eShop works. Both are much more indie-friendly now, and they have also been also gracious enough to answer all of our questions." - Yacht Club's Sean Velasco
On moving away from the sexy characters of WayForward games...
"There are pangs of guilt about overly-sexy girls in the games we have worked on in the past at YCG. We didn't want to be necessarily exploitative in The Enchantress' design; we want the Enchantress to stand tall as a badass, just as any of the knights are!" - Yacht Clubs' Erin Pellon
I'm not going to lie...I found the cute/sexy designs in WayForward original games to be fun and harmless. I really liked the charm they brought. I'm guessing WayForward is going to continue on with that approach, but it's not Yacht Club's thing.
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How composer Manami Matsumae got involved...
"It was crazy, we got an email from the guys over at Koopa Soundworks ( koopa.tv ) asking if instead of money support, if they could just put us in touch with the legendary composer of the first Mega Man game. We immediately took him up on his offer! She's very excited about working with us and Virt [composer Jake Kaufman] to make this soundtrack really fun!" - Yacht Clubs' Nick Woznia
Nintendo's more relaxed approach to indie devs...
"Nintendo's changes have made it possible for us to develop for them; namely they relaxed rules on who can get dev kits, and changed how their eShop works. Both are much more indie-friendly now, and they have also been also gracious enough to answer all of our questions." - Yacht Club's Sean Velasco
On moving away from the sexy characters of WayForward games...
"There are pangs of guilt about overly-sexy girls in the games we have worked on in the past at YCG. We didn't want to be necessarily exploitative in The Enchantress' design; we want the Enchantress to stand tall as a badass, just as any of the knights are!" - Yacht Clubs' Erin Pellon
I'm not going to lie...I found the cute/sexy designs in WayForward original games to be fun and harmless. I really liked the charm they brought. I'm guessing WayForward is going to continue on with that approach, but it's not Yacht Club's thing.
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