The discharge of Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle on Transfer 2 has us right here at Nintendo Lifestyles Towers cracking out our 4K discs for a cheeky rewatch. Slightly righteous swashbuckling and fantastical archaeology in those stricken occasions is simply what the physician ordered.
On the other hand, there may be some other treasure-hunting sport that stuck our eye just lately, one that is in the hunt for a few of Indy’s fortune and glory: specifically, Fortune & Glory, a brand-new GBC platformer that is recently survive Kickstarter after smashing its function at the first day.
Coming from indie dev Matthew Loffhagen, it is if truth be told some other Disney personality of Scottish heritage that this homebrew identify is channelling: Scrooge McDuck – or extra particularly, Scrooge’s NES platformers and the broader 8-bit Capcom oeuvre beneath the Disney banner (as spotlighted just lately in Virtual Eclipse’s very good — and lengthy late on Transfer — Disney Afternoon Assortment).
In truth, the Indy reference and the namecheck for high quality Saturday morning tie-ins like Chip ‘n Dale and DuckTales used to be sufficient to pique our hobby, however there appears to be a lot of center and soul that is long gone into this GBStudio venture.
You regulate some of the titular rodents as you discover Gatopolis — the Town of Cats — on the lookout for (in the most efficient custom) some sacred MacGuffin or different. Historical towns? Test. Booby traps? Obvs. Minecarts? Natch. Snakes? Most certainly. Rats? Er, they are mice, no? Thoughts-scarring melting faces or center removing scenes? Most certainly now not.
The sport picked up 2nd position within the Recreation Boy Pageant 2025 jam, and you’ll be able to take a look at the Kickstarter trailer on the best of the web page for a greater concept of ways this little platformer strikes and sounds. Here is a little flavour from Loffhagen’s Kickstarter web page:
“I have lengthy sought after to make my very own tribute to those video games, and after all ultimate 12 months I fulfilled this dream through getting into Fortune & Glory within the GB Compo ’25 sport jam. To my wonder, the sport gained second position within the jam’s video games class, in addition to scoring best possible a few of the judges for artwork.
“Emboldened, I took my preliminary sport and expanded it considerably, quadrupling its measurement and including an extra playable personality in addition to detailed cutscenes tying the entire journey at the side of a tale impressed through Disney classics – with a wholesome quantity of Indiana Jones and The Mummy (1998) in there for just right measure! In the end, those movies have been impressed through Disney comics to begin with, so all of it felt very thematic!”
There may be nonetheless greater than 20 days to head at the Kickstarter on the time of writing, so if a bodily reproduction of this sounds interesting (plus numerous add-ons in the event that they glide your boat), head over there and take a gander.
Nonetheless now not positive? There may be a demo on itch.io that you’ll be able to obtain and even simply play to your browser.
Tell us beneath if that is urgent your nostalgia button.
