Shovel Knight sales surpass dev's lifetime estimate in one month

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New indie outfit Yacht Club Games has sold 180K copies of its debut effort Shovel Knight.
This figure includes its 15,684 Kickstarter backers, but it's still really impressive given the team's six-person size and low budget. The developer offered a very thorough breakdown of its development costs in a blog post on the matter.
So first off, the crowdfunded game raised a total budget of $328,682 ($311,502 from Kickstarter and $17,180 from PayPal).
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