

However, he’s also stated that Cyber Shadow was deliberately intended to be more of a callback to an older classic by the name of Shadow of the Ninja. Hunziker has stated that the game is something that fuses the level design of Mario games, the sheer amount of skills, abilities, and actions that Ninja Gaiden brings, as well as Contra’s enemy design and Batman’s dark visual aesthetic. Yacht Club’s previous developer experience when they were creating Shovel Knight were instrumental in polishing the game further. Yacht Club also gave Hunziker design feedback in addition to their publisher role. The game’s music is produced by Jake Kaufman and composed by Enrique Martin. While the game development side of things is handled by Hunziker, that doesn’t mean that he did all of the work by himself. After which, they later convinced him to “join their little family.” Yacht Club found him while he was posting about the game’s development on his Twitter account. At first, he had no plans of joining with a publisher, and thus, wasn’t advertising his game yet. The game has several stated inspirations from other video games similar to it like Ninja Gaiden and Castlevania.Īs stated, the game’s sole developer is Aarne Hunziker, who has already been developing Cyber Shadow for years all on his own. With the game already in development years before that point as well as silently announced before the event. Cyber Shadow made its debut at PAX East 2019. Coincidentally, he is the only member of Mechanical Head Studios at that point.

If we’re being accurate, the game is created by Aarne Hunziker.

Cyber Shadow is an action-platformer side-scroller video game published by Yacht Club Games and made by Mechanical Head Studios, an indie developer based in Finland.
