The discharge of Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle on Change 2 has us right here at Nintendo Life Towers cracking out our 4K discs for a cheeky rewatch. Just a little righteous swashbuckling and fantastical archaeology in these troubled instances is simply what the physician ordered.
Nevertheless, there’s one other treasure-hunting recreation that caught our eye not too long ago, one which’s looking for a few of Indy’s fortune and glory: particularly, Fortune & Glory, a brand-new GBC platformer that is at the moment stay on Kickstarter after smashing its objective on the primary day.
Coming from indie dev Matthew Loffhagen, it is really 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 not too long ago in Digital Eclipse’s wonderful — and lengthy overdue on Change — 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 — in quest of (in the very best custom) some sacred MacGuffin or different. Historical cities? Verify. Booby traps? Obvs. Minecarts? Natch. Snakes? In all probability. Rats? Er, they’re mice, no? Thoughts-scarring melting faces or coronary heart removing scenes? In all probability not.
The sport picked up second place within the Sport Boy Competitors 2025 jam, and you’ll take a look at the Kickstarter trailer on the high of the web page for a greater concept of how this little platformer strikes and sounds. This is slightly flavour from Loffhagen’s Kickstarter web page:
“I’ve lengthy wished to make my very own tribute to those video games, and eventually final 12 months I fulfilled this dream by getting into Fortune & Glory within the GB Compo ’25 recreation 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 recreation and expanded it considerably, quadrupling its measurement 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 have been impressed by Disney comics to begin 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 quite a lot of add-ons in the event that they float your boat), head over there and take a gander.
Nonetheless undecided? There is a demo on itch.io that you would be able to 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 positioning full-time the next 12 months, rising by the ranks to turn into Editor. He can at the moment be discovered squashed beneath a Change backlog the scale of Normandy.
