{"id":109701,"date":"2016-11-02T16:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T14:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=109701"},"modified":"2016-11-02T16:48:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T14:48:31","slug":"heres-your-chance-to-play-the-castlevania-fan-made-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/109701-heres-your-chance-to-play-the-castlevania-fan-made-remake","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s your chance to play the Castlevania fan-made remake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fan-made games have been picking up some serious steam over the past year or so. First, the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m9CXf0PwSzc&amp;t=275s\" target=\"_blank\">Resident Evil 2 fan-remake<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0garnered some attention from the right (and wrong *cough* Capcom *cough*) people, and then <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/86750-metal-gear-solid-remake-shadow-moses-has-been-cancelled.html\">Shadow Moses<\/a><\/strong>, a Metal Gear Solid remake that\u00a0the community got fully behind, was shut down by Konami before things got too far along.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s another of Konami&#8217;s prized possession&#8217;s turn in the makeup chair.<\/p>\n<p>1986&#8217;s side-scrolling action adventure Castlevania has undergone a partial remake, as the first level of the classic game was recreated in Unreal Engine 4 for a Halloween Game Jam.\u00a0Interest in the\u00a0small demo has since picked up, and the Swedish creator is now aiming to\u00a0grow the project into\u00a0a full remake of the entire game.<\/p>\n<p>To do so, he is\u00a0running a<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/103682474\/castlevania-1-remake\"> Kickstarter to fund the creation of the rest of this port<\/a><\/strong>, though they\u2019ve only raised just under R2,500\u00a0out of R910,000 target with 9\u00a0days to go, so it&#8217;s looking like quite a stretch, but you never know what can happen with the power of the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the gameplay below, and if you want to play the demo yourself,<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/dejawolf.itch.io\/castlevania-1-remake\" target=\"_blank\">head over to the game&#8217;s website<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Castlevania 1 unreal remake update\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aRu1LiFP6jw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Article originally\u00a0published on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/games\/castlevania-remake-is-a-shot-of-nostlagia-for-80s-90s-gamers\/\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a title=\"Permalink to We will get new consoles every few years just for better graphics\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/108483-we-will-get-new-consoles-every-few-years-just-for-better-graphics.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">We will get new consoles every few years just for better graphics<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Return to where it all began in this new fan-made throwback.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":109703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[31,4439,351,6494,4379],"class_list":["post-109701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-active","tag-castlevania","tag-remake","tag-unreal","tag-unreal-engine-4"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109713,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109701\/revisions\/109713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}