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Why 'Mina the Hollower' Was Delayed Yacht Club Games hasn't given a new release date, but the delay shouldn’t be more than a few months

On Monday, Yacht Club Games delayed the much-anticipated upcoming game Mina the Hollower.

On Tuesday, I visited their studio and saw the game. It made for a rare glimpse at why a video game gets delayed and what "polish" actually means.

This week's column:
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It’s finally time to delve into Mina’s world of monsters and mystery on the Xbox Series X/S! Yes, Mina is coming to Xbox & you can try it out in The Xbox Indie Selects Demo event going on RIGHT NOW!

This is the LAST chance to play the demo. Progress will carry at launch (10/31)!

So proud to annouce that Mina the Hollower is delving onto PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S on October 31st! ❤️🐭

We hope you’re enjoying your adventure in #MinaTheHollower's demo!

Friendly reminder that the time-exclusive demo on the Switch 1 & 2 is available until 8/21 at 11:59 PM PT. All progress will carry over to the full game at launch! We're excited for it to release on 10/31! 🧡

Save 50% on Shovel Knight Dig on Steam Meet new friends and foes, visit strange lands, and outfit yourself in your quest to keep the entire land from collapsing underfoot! Jump, slash, and dig your way down an ever-changing chasm of myster...

The future is bright for Dig. We’re currently ironing out plans for where our blue burrow’s platformer roguelike will pop up next! Stay tuned for more info

In the meantime, if you want to delve in on a new platform, we're deeply discounting the game on Steam.
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Get ready to burrow into a bizarre world full of monsters and mystery in Mina the Hollower on October 31st! Play the demo now on Nintendo Switch 1 and 2!

eShop:➡️ ycgurl.com/MinaSwitch

WHOA! Our very own Sean Velasco and Celia Schilling will be hosting the "From Shovel Knight to Mina the Hollower: What We've Learned as Indie Devs" panel at PAX West! It'll be held on Sunday (Day 3) at 1pm PT in the FireBird Theatre!

Badges are on sale now! We hope to see you there!

That's a wrap for our first #SummerGameFest! How did we do?

The Steam demo is OUT NOW & participating in #SteamNextFest!

It’ll feature the game’s opening stage & conclude w/ the first major boss fight. Progress made in the demo will carry over to the full game at launch.

Steam Page: store.steampowered.com/app/3741460/...

We took the stage at Summer Game Fest today to unveil a world premiere for our upcoming game, Mina the Hollower. Leaning into Mina’s gothic horror roots, the top-down action adventure game is set to launch on 10/31/25. Play the demo NOW on Steam!

Ahead of the release of Mario Kart World, I wanna do something as a send-off to 8 Deluxe, so I'll be hosting a 96 Tracks Race on June 1st at 2PM EDT!! Anyone can join and you may choose 150 or 200cc, with or without items. Hope to see a lot of people there!

Hi! I'm Tuï and i do vgm/chiptune music for indie games. You might have heard some of my recent work in CashCowDX, GoodBoyGalaxy or Flea2.
This is a track for an upcoming game called Blinding Lite!
Hope you'll like it!
#gamedev #chiptune #composer

Definitely some more sound effects, the game is quite lacking in that regard. I struggled with 3D audio for quite some time - the cars had engine noises at one point! But the attenuation was tricky to get right, and we ended up scrapping it.

One Minute Delivery by Rockm, Standroid02 Deliver pizzas in one minute!

The game is available to play on my itch page. Thanks for reading!
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Here's the final gameplay! To be honest, posting all this feels... humiliating. Our team ended up coming 30th out of 36. I *know* I can do better. But instead of deleting it all as I usually do, I'm going to leave this post here to get some feedback so I can do better in future.

Here's our solution: setup triggers on the road prefabs that set the forward direction of a car to a given direction.

My final contribution, and perhaps the most interesting: cars that drive around the city! How do you make cars that drive around a city all on their own? Would be interested to hear other people's solutions 🤔

Next, I had to make... more UI! This time, some UI to tell the player where they need to go (a GPS of sorts), how long they have left on the timer, and their score in the form of tips. For my first attempt at somewhat diegetic UI, it was good enough.

My first job was to make a title screen. I don't particularly enjoy UI design, so I made something that fit our game's theme as quick as I could. Those with a keen eye will notice the default Unity assets! You will also notice that that is not how you hold a phone.

a yellow taxi is driving down a street in a video game with a green arrow pointing to the right ALT: a yellow taxi is driving down a street in a video game with a green arrow pointing to the right

Well, what about the actual game idea? We thought to ourselves, "what if we did Crazy Taxi, but you were riding a bicycle instead?" Thus, Crazy Bicycle was born!

a white clock with the number 55 on it ALT: a white clock with the number 55 on it

The theme was "you only get one". Plenty of ways to interpret that, and our team decided to interpret it as "you only get one minute to pick up and deliver a pizza".

I did a game jam where we combined Crazy Taxi with bicycle physics 🧵

Becoming an astronaut is dangerous work for a mouse. 🐭#MinaTheHollower

🚨Calling all shovel-heads!🚨
We are beyond excited to announce the launch of
@insertcoin.bsky.social's new Shovel Knight merch line!

Each piece is INCREDIBLE. Here's a thread of what's included in the collection!

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Excited to see what you guys will do with the new engine 🔥

Our Future Use of the Retro Engine® Name - Evening Star Clarifications around our engine name moving forward

Evening Star is moving away from further use of the “Star Engine” name, and unifying our technology under the name Retro Engine®. You can read more info on the new Evening Star Blog:
eveningstar.studio/articles/ret...

Looks like the Develop:Brighton registration has gone live! Wondering if any others are going? Also wondering which pass I should get, since it'll be my first 🤔

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That charge dash feels super impactful, always liked watching this one back