Yacht Club shares a new dev blog detailing how Shovel Knight NPC sprites are made

There was a time when creating sprites was becoming a bit of a lost art, but thankfully indie devs brought sprites back into favor, and now countless devs/pubs of all sizes release titles with classic sprite work. One of the most impressive sprite-based titles is certainly Shovel Knight, and Yacht Club has just shared a blog that gives some insight into how NPC sprites are made. Check out a blurb from the blog below, then click over for the full piece.

A lot of thought goes into creating all of the characters you interact with during the course of a Shovel Knight adventure! You may have asked yourself: How does Yacht Club decide on a character design? Do they sketch out ideas first or go right to making sprites? Why are there so many horse people?