The discharge of Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle on Swap 2 has us right here at Nintendo Life Towers cracking out our 4K discs for a cheeky rewatch. A bit righteous swashbuckling and fantastical archaeology in these troubled instances is simply what the physician ordered.
Nevertheless, there’s one other treasure-hunting sport that caught our eye just lately, one which’s searching for a few of Indy’s fortune and glory: particularly, Fortune & Glory, a brand-new GBC platformer that is presently stay on Kickstarter after smashing its objective on the primary day.
Coming from indie dev Matthew Loffhagen, it is truly one other Disney character of Scottish heritage that this homebrew title is channelling: Scrooge McDuck – or extra particularly, Scrooge’s NES platformers and the broader 8-bit Capcom oeuvre below the Disney banner (as spotlighted just lately in Digital Eclipse’s glorious — and lengthy overdue on Swap — Disney Afternoon Assortment).
Actually, the Indy reference and the namecheck for high quality Saturday morning tie-ins like Chip ‘n Dale and DuckTales was sufficient to pique our curiosity, however there appears to be loads of coronary heart and soul that is gone into this GBStudio mission.
You management one of many titular rodents as you discover Gatopolis — the Metropolis of Cats — seeking (in one of the best custom) some sacred MacGuffin or different. Historic cities? Examine. Booby traps? Obvs. Minecarts? Natch. Snakes? Most likely. Rats? Er, they’re mice, no? Thoughts-scarring melting faces or coronary heart elimination scenes? Most likely not.
The sport picked up second place within the Recreation Boy Competitors 2025 jam, and you’ll take a look at the Kickstarter trailer on the high of the web page for a greater thought of how this little platformer strikes and sounds. Here is just a little flavour from Loffhagen’s Kickstarter web page:
“I’ve lengthy needed to make my very own tribute to those video games, and at last final 12 months I fulfilled this dream by getting into Fortune & Glory within the GB Compo ’25 sport jam. To my shock, the sport received 2nd place within the jam’s video games class, in addition to scoring highest among the many judges for artwork.
“Emboldened, I took my preliminary sport and expanded it considerably, quadrupling its dimension and including a further playable character in addition to detailed cutscenes tying the entire journey along with a narrative impressed by Disney classics – with a wholesome quantity of Indiana Jones and The Mummy (1998) in there for good measure! In any case, these movies had been impressed by Disney comics to start out with, so all of it felt very thematic!”
There’s nonetheless greater than 20 days to go on the Kickstarter on the time of writing, so if a bodily copy of this sounds interesting (plus a wide range of add-ons in the event that they float your boat), head over there and take a gander.
Nonetheless unsure? There is a demo on itch.io which you can obtain and even simply play in your browser.
Tell us under if that is urgent your nostalgia button.
[source kickstarter.com]
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Gavin first wrote for Nintendo Life in 2018 earlier than becoming a member of the location full-time the next 12 months, rising by means of the ranks to turn into Editor. He can presently be discovered squashed beneath a Swap backlog the dimensions of Normandy.
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