Yacht Club Games, LLC is an American
independent video game development studio and publisher founded in 2011 by former
WayForward Technologies
WayForward Technologies, Inc. is an American independent video game developer and publisher based in Valencia, California. Founded in March 1990 by technology entrepreneur Voldi Way, WayForward started by developing games for consoles such as ...
director Sean Velasco. The company announced their first title, ''
Shovel Knight
''Shovel Knight'' is a platform video game developed and published by Yacht Club Games. Development was crowdfunded and the game was released for Nintendo 3DS, Wii U, and Windows in June 2014. It was ported to OS X and Linux in September 2014, P ...
'', on March 14, 2013, and released it on June 26, 2014, after a successful
Kickstarter campaign. In 2016, the company announced that it would start publishing games from other companies, and that their first published game would be ''Azure Striker Gunvolt: Striker Pack'', a compilation containing ''
Azure Striker Gunvolt
''Azure Striker Gunvolt'', known as in Japan, is a 2D side-scrolling action-platform game developed and published by Inti Creates. It was first released for Nintendo 3DS via eShop in August 2014. Ports of the game were released for Windows in 201 ...
'' and ''
Azure Striker Gunvolt 2
''Azure Striker Gunvolt 2'', known as ''Armed Blue: Gunvolt Sou'' (ガンヴォルト爪) in Japan, is a 2D side-scrolling Action video game, action-Platform game, platform video game developed and published by Inti Creates for the Nintendo 3DS. ...
'', which was released later that year.
Their second published title was ''
Cyber Shadow'', a game developed by Mechanical Head Studios, which was released in 2021.
In February 2022, the company announced their second original title, ''
Mina the Hollower''.
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