{"id":16005,"date":"2018-03-27T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-27T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/developer_iconoclasts_says_porting_the_game_to_switch_would_be_fun"},"modified":"2018-03-27T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-27T10:58:00","slug":"developer-iconoclasts-says-porting-the-game-to-switch-would-be-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/27\/developer-iconoclasts-says-porting-the-game-to-switch-would-be-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Developer Iconoclasts Says Porting The Game To Switch &#8220;Would Be Fun&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news3.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/developer_iconoclasts_says_porting_the_game_to_switch_would_be_fun\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/developer_iconoclasts_says_porting_the_game_to_switch_would_be_fun\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Some guys are just made for Switch, even if &#8211; technically &#8211; they&#8217;re yet to appear on the platform or have an official release announced. Such is the case for 2D platformer <strong>Iconoclasts<\/strong>, an indie title that&#8217;s been praised for its poignant storytelling and platforming gameplay that harks back to the glory days of SEGA Mega Drive\/Genesis.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with Game Informer, developer\u00a0Joakim Sandberg was posed the question of whether he&#8217;d considered bringing his indie hit to a platform so well suited to it. &#8220;That would be very fun,&#8221; he replies. &#8220;I have a publisher for distribution, so I can\u2019t talk about just anything.&#8221; That sounds rather promising to us, and considering how well the game has been received on PC &#8211; and has already made the jump to PS4 and PS Vita &#8211; a jump to a console with such a pro-indie community seems an ideal fit.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out the full interview in the link below, just watch out for spoilers if you haven&#8217;t played the game yet. Oh, and here&#8217;s a trailer from the PC release:<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>So there you have it. No official word, but a subtle wink towards a potential future port nevertheless. We&#8217;ve loved playing Iconoclasts on Steam so we really hope it gets the chance to shine again on the Switch eShop. Let us know what you think of Iconoclasts below&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some guys are just made for Switch, even if &#8211; technically &#8211; they&#8217;re yet to appear on the platform or have an official release announced. Such is the case for 2D platformer Iconoclasts, an indie title that&#8217;s been praised for its poignant storytelling and platforming gameplay that harks back to the glory days of SEGA [&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-16005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005","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=16005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}