Artist and creator Phillip Summers is again with one other ‘Hand-Drawn Recreation Information’, this time trying on the basic hard-as-nails motion title Mega Man.
Hovering previous its Kickstarter funding purpose in simply 12 hours, the Capcom-licensed ebook is aiming to launch in August 2025 for backers and can boast over 200 pages of beautiful hand-drawn photographs trying on the unique Mega Man for the NES and the Recreation Boy. Character illustrations will likely be included together with full stage maps, ideas, tips, and beautiful two-page spreads.
What’s particularly neat (and in a greater world, this actually needn’t be mentioned) is that no AI in anyway has been utilised within the creation of the ebook. All the pieces discovered inside its pages has been crafted with real-life artwork instruments, with the one digital step within the course of being the scanning required to rearrange the photographs by way of web page structure software program.
There’s nonetheless loads of time to submit your pledge if you would like to help Summers’ venture, with digital variations of the ebook out there at £16/$19 and bodily copies at £24/$29. The Kickstarter additionally states that if the venture is profitable, Capcom could also be eager for extra guides based mostly on the sequels and spin-offs. For now, let’s take a peek at a number of pages from the ebook to provide us a flavour of what to anticipate.
As for the Mega Man franchise itself, the sequence has remained dormant for the reason that launch of 2018’s Mega Man 11, although Capcom has lately gone on report to say that it’s “contemplating the way to create video games for it on an ongoing foundation”. Fingers crossed we’ll get information on a brand new entry in 2025.
