Company type | Private |
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Industry | Video games |
Founded | 2011 |
Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Key people | Sean Velasco |
Number of employees | 19 (February 2022) |
Website | https://www.yachtclubgames.com/ |
Yacht Club Games, LLC is an American independent video game development studio and publisher based in Los Angeles, California/ It was founded in 2011 by former WayForward Technologies director Sean Velasco.[1] The company announced its first title, Shovel Knight, on March 14, 2013, and released it on June 26, 2014, after a successful Kickstarter campaign.[2] In 2016, the company announced that it would start publishing games from other companies and that the first published game would be Azure Striker Gunvolt: Striker Pack, a compilation containing Azure Striker Gunvolt and Azure Striker Gunvolt 2, which was released later that year.[3] Their second published title was Cyber Shadow, a game developed by Mechanical Head Studios, released in 2021.[4] In February 2022, the company announced its second original title, Mina the Hollower.[5]