>The concept behind Body Swap (originally called Gender Swap) was that all of the male characters would become female, and vice versa. But after some discussions both internal and external, we quickly realized that we could do more than just a simple reversing of all the genders of the characters. After all, there is an enormous spectrum of genders or labels that players might want to customize. However, we also had to balance the scope of the feature, so we came up with this feature set:
>We would create the opposite bodies for our main characters: Shovel Knight and Shield Knight, Enchantress, Black Knight and all the Knights of the Order of No Quarter. Each of these character swaps could be controlled independently, to give whatever mix of character bodies the player wanted. Finally, in English, the pronouns for each of the characters could also be swapped, so you could have a male character called “her” or vice versa! This would all be controlled by a simple menu.
theyre just pleasing the SJW overlords that think gender bending is problematic since it "erases" trannies. doing otherwise would incur the wrath of all the radlib cisgender journalists that get assblasted on behalf of trannies, most of which don't give a fuck.
Leo Morris
It's pixels. Who the fuck cares about the gender?What is wrong with people?
Carter Watson
Meh, it was a stretch goal and doesn't really hurt anything.
Ryder Martin
>Queen Knight SHE'S CUTE! CUTE!
Also I'm totally okay with this, ADDING features is always okay. Removing them is unacceptable.
Zachary Davis
Cute
Bentley Young
This was literally one of the stretch goals that they were paid to do. Calm down.
Luke Lee
>She
Easton Bailey
SEIZUI'S GONNA FREAK
Thomas Roberts
Just 4 more years until we get Battle Mode
Joseph Wood
can we type our own pronouns?
Andrew Harris
The Enchanter looks kinda silly
Luis Jackson
its not the fact that there's a gender swap option, just that they're jumping through hoops to not call it gender swap to be "PC"
Xavier Lopez
This is the best way to do this though. I'm not saying it isn't pandering, but from a business standpoint this is the safest way to push out the genderswapped idea that they are actually trying to push out. This other stuff is just text in different places and using either sprites gender assets wherever the player chooses them to be. Its like mix and match Genders.
Luke Ross
>Female Zubaz
Mason Gray
So what?
Joshua Clark
That doesn't answer the question "why", unless you're saying Yacht Club wasn't the one who came up with the stretch goals.
Luke Gomez
Was just gonna post that. That's amazing.
Nathan Butler
was gonna get mad, but if it's just a stretch goal in the KS, I guess I'll allow it
Jordan Nelson
idk I'm not the op, nor or am I incredibly passionate either way about the feature. I'm just answering questions for autists that cant read the atmosphere
Parker Wilson
My guess? It was a padding goal. Tons of Kickstarter campaigns put them in.
Nathaniel Cooper
Xe is a beautiful Xoman and can where whatever xe wants to, you shitlord.
Connor Bailey
Hype as fuck
Chase Thompson
It means they're scared of the SJW boogeymen
They flinched when they were told that gender swapping is toxic.
Benjamin Stewart
Shame it isn't every character. Oh well.
Grayson Rogers
But user I thought they just said it would be every character.
Jason Murphy
So? They're avoiding bad press and getting good press. They're still a business.
Gabriel Sanchez
And this is why Western devs are always gonna be whipped faggots.
Brayden Smith
Just the core cast. Shovel, Black, Shield, the order, and Enchantress.
Jaxson Powell
her breasts are not real
Jackson Long
_ ____ __ ____ ____ ____
Gavin Reed
i cant wait for the rage from Seizui about this
Luis Powell
Yeah, it can't really be helped these days. It's only easy to talk shit about devs being scared of SJWs when you're not the one releasing a game in a climate where SJWs run all the fucking review websites.
Logan Fisher
Troupple King is Apple, it just works
Christopher Cooper
This, they are following the flow (i hope), no reason to go full Bioware here since its just a non canonical feature
God i really hope they don't go full SJW though
Jace Lopez
>Donald Trump is President >Things are getting more conservative by the hour >Pretty soon liberalism and the left as a whole will be destroyed
>people still complain and claim that SJWs are influencing things.
top fucking kek.
Gabriel Reed
>People ITT getting upset over genderswap mode For what purpose? It's a silly bonus mode.
Nathaniel Bennett
Who cares? Have some fucking balls.
Juan Taylor
I want to fuck his butt to be honest
Cameron Garcia
>
Caleb James
>SJWs are still influencing things, as clearly shown by this thread >People still complain SJWs are still influencing things really gets the soup cooking
Noah Richardson
I'm going to complain till they completely fuck off from muh vidyer.
Also the gender swap thing is nice but did they really have to go so far as to go "hurr you can play a male but be called a female cause u r speshul snowflake".
Brayden Martinez
Finally, I can make every character a grill.
Nathan Morgan
>no PK female art ugh... I just want to know which is the best pairing Pk and Mona or Girl PK and Boy Mona Girl Pk and Girl Mona
Jaxon Perez
B-but Mona would be the best candidate for a genderswap...
Justin Taylor
PK and Mona. Always and forever.
But yeah, I want to see the other designs. Polar Knight especially.
Jaxson Collins
>female Plague she would be the awkward stalker gf who drops spaghetti everwhere
no i wonder what kind of girls each knight would be
Jace Barnes
>Sup Forums loves traps when they are from eastern studios >hates'em when they are from western ones
really makes you think
Aiden Phillips
>I'm going to complain till they completely fuck off from muh vidyer. I fucking hate how they managed to weaponize social media drama
Caleb Jones
>body swap is only for main campaign >they tease tall guy/short girl concept art anyway
Julian Collins
Remember when it was just hamplanets and lolcows getting mad that their titpics got posted all over myspace?
Benjamin Robinson
So anyone else getting Treasure Trove or Specter of Torment on Switch this Friday?
Adam Diaz
>can now make the entire Order of No Quarter female I can fap to this
Elijah Ross
>all that delicious shortstack porn coming from this
Lincoln Kelly
looks like male version of Maleficent
Aiden Miller
When you're an indie studio, having some fucking balls could result in your indie game flopping and potentially ending your company (and your career) it's not difficult to see why devs bend over backward for these fuckwads.
that said, Shovel Kinght already sold a ton of copies so I guess that doesn't really apply here
Mason Jones
That's pretty neat. Being able to mix and match who is what in the gender swap mode. I like it.
Cameron Nguyen
>Just the core cast. brb uninstalling my life
Julian Baker
>Get to make the game entirely female or entirely male
This is pretty coo
Austin Wood
I would buy just so I could it earlier, but >buying a switch not happening
Zachary Miller
>Mask off
Nolan Mitchell
Where's female Baz and Polar Knight?
Dylan Howard
>>buying a switch >not happening Understandable.
Christian Hall
>Finally, in English, the pronouns for each of the characters could also be swapped, so you could have a male character called “her” or vice versa!
The genderswap thing is pretty cool, but this kind of shit always makes me roll my eyes.
Jacob Adams
waifu fags are the worse.
Jacob Clark
You get some bad press from biased sites like Kotaku, and don't actually lose sales. It's been shown time and time again that the SJW bullshit does little to actually affect the sale of games, devs just keep fucking caving without complaint.
Colton Stewart
>delayed on all other platforms for a whole month the concept of exclusives needs to fucking die
Kayden Morales
When does the King Knight DLC release for PC?
Camden Price
>there is an enormous spectrum of genders
Fuck the fuck off.
Andrew Kelly
>Can play Harem mode >Can play Reverse-Harem mode >Can play Reverse-Harem Lesbian Love mode >Can play Bros Being Bros mode >Can play Shovel Trap mode >Can play Shovel Reverse Trap mode >Can play Shovel Knight vs The Trap Order mode
Chase Baker
Does Queen Knight still have the pimp walk though?
Levi Powell
>tfw I can't play it with only one hand
Luke Gomez
Nintendo pushed for it and helped them get Treasure Trove ready as a Switch launch game. It kinda fucking sucks, but a month isn't that bad, especially since it's free to those that own Shovel Knight now.
Grayson Lee
I bet instead of a pimp walk she has a little stroll where she wiggles her big bustle
Leo Cox
>there is an enormous spectrum of genders 2 is not a big number.
Blake Rodriguez
>Can have the ending be Female Shield Knight resting with Female Shovel Knight
Anthony Richardson
fixed
Mason Bennett
>make everybody but Shovel Knight female >it turns into harem anime
Camden Barnes
Quick question, how do I get good at this game?
Owen Jackson
>not leaving black knight male as a dig
Juan Moore
>set everyone in the order's gender to female >don't change their appearance This is the best option, don't try and deny it.
Charles Perez
if you are dying to regular enemies, stop rushing through levels, if you are having a hard time with Plague's controls try practicing with the green armor while doing the infinite jump thing, if the bosses are too hard try memorizing their patterns instead of just blindly attacking
Cooper Gonzalez
>green lex luthor does a maleficent cosplay.
Gavin Fisher
>He still thinks the Don is looking out for him when his net worth is below 7 figures
o i m laffin
Cameron Fisher
>Turn every single character female so it's a female hero beating up female villains wtf this is SJW shit >Turn Shovel Knight male. wtf this is better, take that feminism!
This gender Swap mode can corner all areas of the market.
Ian Jenkins
Please tell me Shield Knight and Enchantress have different options.
Joseph Bell
Are they any difference gameplay-wise or is it reskins? I mean with NES-style graphics I don't really feel making the characters female is going to look too different being my case in point, it looks barely different
Noah King
>Are they any difference gameplay-wise or is it reskins? >I mean with NES-style graphics I don't really feel making the characters female is going to look too different reskins. They wanted to keep the hitboxes the same. It really isn't much, but it's kind of a neat little bonus.
Hudson Jenkins
...
Kayden James
Wouldn't this be anti-SJW because you can only chose between two genders?
Christian Nguyen
BEST KNIGHT EVEN WHEN FEMALE AS ALWAYS
Isaac Cox
Enchantress possesses shield knight(male) and turns him female
