What’s up Shovelociraptors! It’s been 5 years since the initial release of Shovel Knight, now known as Shovel of Hope! Much has happened since then, and the Blue Burrower has certainly gone places!

First off, there are 3 games in the Shovel Knight Saga, with 2 more on the way. Shovel Knight had epic crossover battles with Kratos and the Battletoads. Co-operative gameplay was added! There’s been a bunch cool Shovel Knight merchandise! We made the first third-party amiibo, with more on the way! Nintendo published us in Japan. Shovel Knight is in Smash Bros! We have released on 12 platforms and sold over 2.5 million copies! And had over 25 cameos! There’s even going to be a board game! We have so much gratitude for our legions of fans and friends. Your support of our original Kickstarter started it all!

To celebrate this momentous occasion, we thought we’d take a little trip down memory lane and share some of our memories from development, WIP images, group photos, and weird things that got posted in our Slack from the last 5 years. Like a TV clip show we guess!

Be sure to join our stream today, Wednesday, June 26th from 3pm~7pm (PDT) as we’ll be reliving some of the moments, playing old builds of Shovel Knight, giving out prizes, and revealing a thing or two in Shovel Knight Showdown. In the meantime, check out this cool stuff:

Kickstarter Launch Video

This video was taken the very moment we launched our Kickstarter. How could we have ever anticipated the insanity that followed!?

GDD Images

Fresh from the pages of the Shovel Knight Game Design Document. Pretty funny to look back on these now. Game development sure creates a weird web of ideas!

Development Snapshots and Screens

Here’s a little selection of maybe interesting-screens and factoids about our development process.

Miiverse!

The miiverse was so cool!

Amazing to see everyone’s spontaneous creativity in each moment. Ah, to go back and browse the catalog again..

Weird Stuff!

Photos

It’s been a wild ride with some amazing people. Just look at ’em all!

Shovel Knight in Smash Bros!!

Finally, the culmination of everything. Witness our genuine freakout when we saw the Blue Burrower in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the first time!

Thanks for 5 amazing years!!

Thank you to everyone for supporting us. We appreciate it so much! Here’s to the next 5!