{"id":1859,"date":"2013-09-11T13:22:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T20:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/?p=1859"},"modified":"2013-09-11T13:22:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T20:22:49","slug":"river-city-ransom-underground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/?p=1859","title":{"rendered":"River City Ransom Underground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s no secret that Matt and I love the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kunio-kun\">Kunio-kun<\/a> games, including River City Ransom. Techn\u014ds&#8217;s games, including RCR, Double Dragon, Battle Toads, and some of the less common games such as Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu and Crash N&#8217; The Boys are very dear to our hearts. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how River City Ransom Underground turns out.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been aware of Ottawa based <a href=\"http:\/\/conatuscreative.com\/\">Conatus Creative<\/a>&#8216;s licensed take on the franchise since May, and I&#8217;m glad to see that they&#8217;re finally Kickstarting their project in what looks like will be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/combitstudios\/river-city-ransom-underground\">successful campaign<\/a>. I&#8217;m a little weary about their mention of having a Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu style stretch goal as we&#8217;ll suddenly see some competition in the gameplay style that we&#8217;re building into our game. From the looks of it we&#8217;re targeting similar release dates, too. As an indie that&#8217;s already invested a lot of time and love into our project, I&#8217;d be lying if I didn&#8217;t say that direct competition with an established brand name isn&#8217;t concerning to me. But hey, if Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat can exist in the same world&#8230; well&#8230; one of the messages they kept trying to hammer into me at PAX Dev was the idea that indies\u00a0<em>aren&#8217;t<\/em> in competition with each other. I guess we&#8217;ll be putting that to the test.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, what they&#8217;ve shown off on the Kickstarter looks like it&#8217;s got a lot of great potential. It&#8217;s worth taking the time to check out. I hope the game does well, and I hope that it helps get people psyched for what we&#8217;re doing too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it&#8217;s no secret that Matt and I love the Kunio-kun games, including River City Ransom. Techn\u014ds&#8217;s games, including RCR, Double Dragon, Battle Toads, and some of the less common games such as Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu and Crash N&#8217; The Boys are very dear to our hearts. It&#8217;ll be interesting to see how River City Ransom Underground turns out. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-1859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crowd-funding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sprixelsoft.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}