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"Shovel Knight was recently announced by Yacht Club Games, a group of developers who formerly worked at WayForward Technologies. As the title suggests, the game stars a knight wielding a shovel, which he uses to fight, dig and bounce on enemies similar to DuckTales.  Shortly after Shovel Knight was revealed, Capcom announced that WayForward is working on an official HD re-imagining of DuckTales, drawing comparisons between the two games. Speaking with Digital Spy, Yacht Club Games founder Sean Velasco said that though the games appear similar in trailers, they will play differently. &amp;quot;We can tell you that Shovel Knight and DuckTales similarities are total coincidence, although DuckTales has been around longer,&amp;quot; Velasco said.  &amp;quot;The inspiration for Shovel Knight comes from many places, but it&amp;#039;s more Zelda II than DuckTales. After all, in Shovel Knight, you can&amp;#039;t bounce anywhere, only off of objects and enemies. While the gameplay in the trailer looks similar, it&amp;#039;s actually quite different to play.&amp;quot;  One of the defining aspects of Zelda II was its dual gameplay styles, with both overhead map exploration and 2D side-scrolling dungeons. When asked about the two types of gameplay, Velasco clarified that he was referring to combat rather than exploration. &amp;quot;In terms of Zelda II, you are right in that we won&amp;#039;t have the two gameplay styles, but we see our inspiration from Zelda [as] coming more from the combat system and character progression,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;The heavy, intense, strategy based combat of Zelda II was really appealing to us, and their focus on the down thrust is where our idea for the gameplay originated [from].&amp;quot;  Velasco added that some developers at Yacht Club Games had spent a small amount of time working on the WayForward DuckTales remake early on, &amp;quot;but none of us were part of the core team&amp;quot;. Yacht Club Games is running a Kickstarter campaign to fund development of Shovel Knight, and recently surpassed its $75,000 (\u00A349,215) goal. A number of stretch goals were announced for funding milestones over that total, including playable boss characters, a Linux and Mac version, multiplayer battle mode and a gender swap mode. Shovel Knight is being developed for PC, Wii U and Nintendo 3DS. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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