Before Nintendo even confirmed the Switch 2's mouse controls, Shovel Knight spin-off devs started making a co-op game with a cursed "Frankenstein Joy-Con 2 alternative"
Mou🀅se Work devs started making a mice-ce𒉰ntric game before Switch 2's mouse controls were official

We now know almost everything about the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Nintendo Switch 2, but there was a time, long ago, when everything about it was just hearsay. Developer Nitrome took a big gamble, however, and began developing a game centred aro🏅und the console's rumored mouse controls before𒅌 its mouse controls were ever properly revealed.
You might know Nitrome as the developer behind spin-off roguelike Shovel Knight Dig, and the studio recently announced Mouse Work, a new co-op party game about controlling cute mice using the Switch 2's mouse controls to tackle short and sw🔯eet mini-games. Like WarioWare without the stress of having new games flying at you as if th🌳ey're being shot through a hose.
Janky climbing, X-ing pop-up ads, recreating paintings - it looks fun! And here's i🅺ts first trailer:

What's especially interesting is that Nitrome doesn't actually have a Switch 2 dev kit yet as Nintendo has seemingly only sent them to big publishers and a select few indies - like the Hades 2 and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Hollow Knight Silksong studios - so the team instead strapped an OG Joy-Con to a computer mouse to prototype their game in the uncom𓆏fiest-looking way imaginable. "How do you make a game for Switch 2 if you don’t have a dev kit yet?" the studio wrote on social media. "Behold our Frankenstein Joy-Con 2 alternative!"
How do you make a game for Switch 2 ܫif you don’t have a dev kit yet? Behold our Frankenstein Joy-Con 2 alternative!@NintendoEurope @NintendoAmerica @NintendoUK we would love to have a dev kit - pretty please?Retweets appreciated!#switch2 #mousework pic.twitter.com/VpdcqknLWu
Speaking to , studio founder Mat Annal said the "prꦅoject has been developed very rapidly after assuming the mouse mode rumour was true from t🍬he January Direct."
Essentially, there were rumblings that the Switch 2 would have mouse-like functionality for months, letting players scrape their new Joy-Cons across a surface to move a cursor or whatever the in-game equivalent was, and the minute Nintendo teased the feature with the console's reve🎃al trailer, Nitrome got to (Mouse). The quick turnaround isn't too unusual for the team, either, since they already have experience ma🌳king flash games that are done in a couple of months, too.
Find out what other 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming Switch 2 games are on the horizon.
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