{"id":14859,"date":"2018-03-12T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/mysterious_sci-fi_platformer_planet_alpha_is_heading_to_nintendo_switch_this_year"},"modified":"2018-03-12T13:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T13:30:00","slug":"mysterious-sci-fi-platformer-planet-alpha-is-heading-to-nintendo-switch-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/12\/mysterious-sci-fi-platformer-planet-alpha-is-heading-to-nintendo-switch-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious Sci-Fi Platformer Planet Alpha Is Heading To Nintendo Switch This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/mysterious_sci-fi_platformer_planet_alpha_is_heading_to_nintendo_switch_this_year\/large.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Team17 has announced a partnership with Danish indie\u00a0developer Adrian Lazar to bring <a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/planet_alpha\"><strong>Planet Alpha<\/strong><\/a> to Nintendo Switch in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Planet Alpha is an atmospheric side-scrolling platform adventure game which combines fast platforming, creative puzzles, stealth mechanics, and a visually striking art style. Waking up on a strange alien world that is home to many mysterious, exotic flora and fauna, you are tasked with exploring the world around you, uncovering the ability to rotate and control the planet as you do so.<\/p>\n<p>Development on\u00a0Planet Alpha\u00a0initially began in 2013 with Lazar working on the game solo in his spare time. Since then, though, he has\u00a0recruited a small international team to support development and now has the backing of Team17 to publish the game, too.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cPlanet Alpha\u00a0is the work of passion of a small but very ambitious team. We are building something special and we\u2019re putting everything we have into it. Developing the game for over 4 years has been a roller coaster, so when we looked for a publisher we were very selective.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No precise release date has been announced for the game just yet, but we&#8217;ll be keeping an eye out for this one when it arrives sometime later this year. Is this game going on your wishlist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] Team17 has announced a partnership with Danish indie\u00a0developer Adrian Lazar to bring Planet Alpha to Nintendo Switch in 2018. Planet Alpha is an atmospheric side-scrolling platform adventure game which combines fast platforming, creative puzzles, stealth mechanics, and a visually striking art style. Waking up on a strange alien world that is home to [&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-14859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859","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=14859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}