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Pikmin 57
10 months ago

We are not dead! - Just slow (Dev Update 4/27/2024)


Our last update was nearly 2 years ago... So many of you are probably asking "Where have you been? Why no updates? Is the game done??"

So lets break these questions down for everyone.

Where have you been/Why no updates? -

These two questions go hand in hand for us, so let me just get it out of the way. College.

Yep! Its a boring answer but its the truth! waddle and I started this project when I was just entering high school, and since then I moved to a different state and went through a collage program to get a bachelors degree in Game Development. And this has taken a lot of my spare time, which is what this game relied on.

Is the game done -

No. Simplest answers are always the best. Unity (the game engine this game was being made in) went through a LOT of controversy since our last update, and given that I am running my own game studio, we do not wish to be associated with actions of the larger company. We are still looking at options but we are either going to make our own in-house engine (called Starlight 2D) OR we will be switching to the Godot game engine.

Pikmin 4 -

So pikmin 4 released before 57 got to release. We are taking inspiration from the new main pikmin game, though we might save a lot of the ideas until much later.

When is the planned release? -

This is the hardest question to answer. While Pikmin 57 is not cancelled, It is on the backburner for now. I personally am working on a custom project that is going to be sold on steam. Due to this most of my development time is going to that project. If we go the custom game engine route, we will take a long time to make any progress, on the Godot engine, it will take less time hopefully. I will make an update by the end of this week to try and figure out the game engine situation.

Thank you all for the patience, I understand how it is for a dev to go silent and never update the game page, making it feel abandoned. We hope you will stick with us through this project, and maybe we can give something small soon as a token of our gratitude.

Until next time

Shadow (Underground-Games)

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