Yacht Club Games

Yacht Club Games, LLC
Company typePrivate
IndustryVideo games
Founded2011 (2011)
HeadquartersLos Angeles, California, U.S.
Key people
Sean Velasco
Number of employees
19 (February 2022)

Yacht Club Games, LLC is an American independent video game development studio and publisher founded in 2011 by former WayForward Technologies director Sean Velasco.[1] The company announced their first title, Shovel Knight, on March 14, 2013, and released it on June 26, 2014, after a successful Kickstarter campaign.[2] 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 and Azure Striker Gunvolt 2, which was released later that year.[3] Their second published title was Cyber Shadow, a game developed by Mechanical Head Studios, which was released in 2021.[4] In February 2022, the company announced their second original title, Mina the Hollower.[5]

  1. ^ "New studio Yacht Club Games sails away with a crew from WayForward". Warp Zoned. March 6, 2013. Retrieved March 17, 2013.
  2. ^ "Ex-WayForward Yacht Club Games kickstarts retro action game Shovel Knight". Joystiq. Retrieved March 17, 2013.
  3. ^ Moser, AJ (July 8, 2016). "Yacht Club Games Publishing Both Azure Striker Gunvolt Games in Physical Release This Fall". Game Informer. Archived from the original on July 12, 2016. Retrieved July 9, 2016.
  4. ^ Nguyen, Lisa (March 17, 2020). "Yacht Club Releases Trailer And Launch Window For Cyber Shadow". happygamer.com. Retrieved March 18, 2020.
  5. ^ Dinsdale, Ryan (February 1, 2022). "Shovel Knight Developer Announces a Brand New Game, Mina the Hollower". IGN. Retrieved February 1, 2022.

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