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Since its release, Hollow Knight has become the face of Iindie games. But it didn’t begin like this. When the developers made the first prototype, people hated him. It took years before the Knight became what it is today, and it only happened because the devs saw something that others didn’t.

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Huge thanks to Rob for helping out with this video
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📃 Research Links
Hungry Knight gets poor reviews
https://web.archive.org/web/201502110...
Hollow Knight on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/36...
Hollow Knight Abilities
https://www.thegamer.com/hollow-knigh...
Hollow Knight price history
https://steampricehistory.com/app/367520
Samus Returns Sales
https://www.vgchartz.com/game/182673/...
Samus Returns price history
https://psprices.com/region-gb/game/1...
Metroid Game Sales
https://vgsales.fandom.com/wiki/Metroid
Hollow Knight Sales
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2019/02/hol...
Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...
The Making of Hollow Knight
https://www.gameinformer.com/2018/10/...
Ludum Dare
https://ludumdare.com/
LD Jam #29
https://web.archive.org/web/201404240...
Nintendo Financial Results Briefing for Fiscal Year Ended March 2008
https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/200...
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