A little bit off-topic but just recently there was a Kickstarter campaign for a Shovel Knight themed board game, i.e. a side-scrolling platformer board game!
They should have put this on the TWP kickstarter: āArt assets not final, and may be subject to change.ā
Also, a bit of a missed chance to include a pledge level that would get you fully handpainted models. (General gripe at the whole tabletop/model industry - most 3D models remain unpainted or end up terribly)
But (spoiler alert,) they did use a lot of those assets in the wireframe world in the final gameā¦
Except the inventory icons. They are still not final and subject to change in any possible future update!
Hm, we could call this a board variant of a platformer or maybe even metroidvania. Also who doesnāt love mazes!
Though the mechanic of changing the maze with shifting columns is neat, the side-scrolling aspect is missing.
Not sure about the Mega Man game but the others listed above seem to have proper side-scroller mechanics, like unfolding the world slice by slice.
I have seen a gameplay video of the Shovel Knight board game. It starts with a side scrolling part and then ends with a boss fight. It looks quite fun. You have jumping involved and a lot of the in-game items. When you die you lose half of your money which can be later collected, itās quite true to the original.
Weāve just bought Labyrinth the card game to give away to some younger relative, but I am actually thinking of getting a copy for myself . Iāve also had the original since I was a kid, but as I won a lot, nobody likes playing that one anymore ā¦
They had planned an expansion called LaCluckās Revenge with a boss called: LaCluck - Ghost Pirate Chicken Lord. She has a drumstick peg leg. And a ghost pirate crew.