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Eleven years after the first public previews hit the ‘net, Joakim Sandberg’s Iconoclasts has a release date.

I am literally quivering with anticipation.

nothing i like more then finding out about a cool thing right before it comes out, when the fans have waited years :D

i did it with exalted, and now i do it with this, this looks cool as HELL

It’s very cool, and it’s also entirely unreasonable that it even exists.

Iconoclasts is basically an answer to the question “how long does it take one guy working in his free time to bang out a AAA-class Metroidvania?”.

All the art. All the music. All the map designs and cutscene animations and UI development. One guy.

Turns out the answer is “just a shade over a decade”.

Interesting. I’ll definitely have to check it out, even though I’m not a fan of Metroidvania games, usually.

If you’re terribly curious, there’s a public alpha build from way back in 2012 available on the developer’s website:

http://konjak.org/

Just scroll down a bit until you hit the “Current game development projects” subheader. It’s nearly six years out of date at this point, but judging from the various trailers, the part of the game that it covers (i.e., the prologue) is still largely the same, apart from a few UI tweaks.