{"id":117079,"date":"2020-08-23T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/dataminer_uncovers_support_for_switch_sdk_in_fall_guys_game_files_on_steam"},"modified":"2020-08-23T09:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T09:45:00","slug":"dataminer-uncovers-support-for-switch-sdk-in-fall-guys-game-files-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/23\/dataminer-uncovers-support-for-switch-sdk-in-fall-guys-game-files-on-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Dataminer Uncovers Support For Switch SDK In Fall Guys Game Files On Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/43513e99c5597\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/43513e99c5597\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/43513e99c5597\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\"><\/aside>\n<p>One of the surprise video game hits of 2020 is <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pushsquare.com\/games\/ps4\/fall_guys\">Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; a 60-player battle royale party title inspired by hilarious television game shows like <em>Takeshi&#8217;s Castle<\/em> and <em>Total Wipeout<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Mediatonic &#8211; the developer behind this relatively new release &#8211; has an FAQ on its website. Within this, it says it would <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/08\/mediatonic_would_love_to_bring_fall_guys_to_other_platforms_further_down_the_line\">&#8220;love&#8221; to bring the game to other platforms<\/a> like the Switch and Xbox further down the line.<\/p>\n<p>Following on from this, Switch dataminer <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OatmealDome\/status\/1296141382751596553\"><strong>OatmealDome<\/strong><\/a> has apparently found a &#8220;NintendoSDKPlugin.dll&#8221; file within the game&#8217;s files on Steam. It&#8217;s supposedly been present since the original version of the game.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" readability=\"4.2857142857143\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" readability=\"3\">Interestingly, Fall Guys has the &#8220;NintendoSDKPlugin.dll&#8221; file in its game files on Steam.<\/p>\n<p>This means that the Fall Guys Unity project has support for the Nintendo Switch&#8217;s SDK (not necessarily that it *will* come to Switch). It&#8217;s also been there since the first version.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 OatmealDome (@OatmealDome) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OatmealDome\/status\/1296141382751596553?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>As noted, the support for Nintendo&#8217;s SDK (software development kit) doesn&#8217;t guarantee it&#8217;s coming to the Switch. If you&#8217;re thinking this might just be linked to Pro Controller support for the game on Steam, it&#8217;s likely not that, either. OatmealDome explains why in a seperate tweet:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NintendoSDK and its associated Unity plugin is only for developing Switch games. Nintendo doesn&#8217;t provide any official SDK for the Pro Controller on PC<\/span>\u2014 OatmealDome (@OatmealDome) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OatmealDome\/status\/1296142323747889153?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>There&#8217;s also the possibility it&#8217;s all an accident on Mediatonic&#8217;s behalf:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" readability=\"4.2222222222222\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" readability=\"3\">You can only compile Unity games for the Switch if you are licensed by Nintendo and have installed the provided SDK. <\/p>\n<p>That being said, Mediatronic could&#8217;ve just activated Switch support by accident.<\/p>\n<p><\/span>\u2014 OatmealDome (@OatmealDome) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OatmealDome\/status\/1296189024764399620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>What do you make of this? Would you like to see Fall Guys make the Switch eventually? <em>Tell us down below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the surprise video game hits of 2020 is Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout &#8211; a 60-player battle royale party title inspired by hilarious television game shows like Takeshi&#8217;s Castle and Total Wipeout. Mediatonic &#8211; the developer behind this relatively new release &#8211; has an FAQ on its website. Within this, it says it would [&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-117079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117079","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=117079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}