What is Shovel Knight?
{{italictitle}} '''''Shovel Knight''''' is an [[Indie game|indie]] [[Platform game|2D platform game]] made by [[Yacht Club Games]] in 2014. The money needed to make the game came from [[Kickstarter]]. It first came out on the [[Wii U]], [[Nintendo 3DS]], and [[Microsoft Windows]]. It later came out on [[PlayStation 3]], [[PlayStation 4]], [[PlayStation Vita]], [[Xbox One]], [[Nintendo Switch]], [[MacOS|OS X]], and [[Linux]]. The game's gameplay and looks are based on other [[Platform game|2D platformers]] from the [[Nintendo Entertainment System|Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)]]. The game has received many good reviews, has won many awards, and often shows up on best video games of all time lists. The game is even responsible for expanding the [[indie game]] market for Nintendo [[Video game console|consoles]]. Before ''Shovel Knight'', [[Nintendo]] mostly released first-party and [[mainstream]] video games on its own consoles, but since the Wii U was struggling to sell, it allowed Nintendo to be more open to playing indie games on their own consoles. ''Shovel Knight''<nowiki/>'s success on Nintendo's consoles them more popular to make indie games for. The game later added four more campaigns, or separate stories and/or game modes within the game, which are ''Plague of Shadows'', ''Specter of Torment'', ''King of Cards'', and ''Shovel Knight: Showdown''. These all were sold together as '''''Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove'''.'' The first campaign was [[Retronym|later renamed]] ''Shovel of Hope''. == Gameplay == The player plays as Shovel Knight, a knight who carries a shovel rather than a normal [[weapon]] like a [[sword]] or a spear. The player will use the shovel for fighting enemies, jumping on platforms, and digging up treasure and secrets. There is no game over if the player dies in a level, but they will return to the last [[Checkpoint (video games)|checkpoint]] they turned on and lose about one-fourth of all the Gold they have, the game's [[currency]]. Like in ''[[Dark Souls]]'', the player will have o