{"id":102662,"date":"2019-10-28T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/kickstarter_for_cuphead-style_enchanted_portals_is_delayed_following_publisher_interest"},"modified":"2019-10-28T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T12:30:00","slug":"kickstarter-for-cuphead-style-enchanted-portals-is-delayed-following-publisher-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/28\/kickstarter-for-cuphead-style-enchanted-portals-is-delayed-following-publisher-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Kickstarter For Cuphead-Style Enchanted Portals Is Delayed Following Publisher Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/64f1067b3d181\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/64f1067b3d181\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/64f1067b3d181\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ArsAhPTdbuU?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/enchanted_portals_is_a_cuphead-style_co-op_game_eyeing_up_a_release_on_switch\">Enchanted Portals<\/a><\/strong> caused quite a stir when it was revealed earlier this month, with many fans accusing two-person studio Xixo of shamelessly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/magical_2d_platformer_enchanted_portals_accused_of_being_a_cuphead_clone\">ripping off<\/a> the visual style of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/cuphead\">Cuphead<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>While there&#8217;s no denying that the two titles <em>do<\/em> look very similar \u2013 Xixo even issued a statement saying that it was prepared for a &#8216;backlash&#8217; \u2013 it would seem that the negative publicity hasn&#8217;t prevented it from being courted by publishers.<\/p>\n<p>The original plan was to launch a Kickstarter campaign to fund development, but Xixo has stated via <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PlayEnchanted\/posts\/145974126752628\">Facebook<\/a> that talks are in progress and the crowdfunding drive \u2013 while not totally canned at this stage \u2013 is going to be delayed indefinitely:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Hi everyone, we\u2019re super happy to announce that we\u2019re in the middle of negotiations with a publisher! Things are still in the air so we\u2019re not going to cancel the Kickstarter campaign just yet, but we will be delaying it indefinitely while we sort all of this out.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>This is really good news because if all goes well we could be start working on our game much sooner than expected, being able to solely focus on production and with a much higher scope than we previously thought possible!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Xixo plans to bring the title to Switch and PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ArsAhPTdbuU?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Enchanted Portals caused quite a stir when it was revealed earlier this month, with many fans accusing two-person studio Xixo of shamelessly ripping off the visual style of Cuphead. While there&#8217;s no denying that the two titles do look very similar \u2013 Xixo even issued a statement saying that it was prepared for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}