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Yooka-Laylee Finds Publisher in Team17, Release Planned for October 2016

Yooka-Laylee Finds Publisher in Team17, Release Planned for October 2016

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Playtonic Games has revealed that Yooka-Laylee has found its upcoming game publisher with Team 17. The announcement was made today that publishing label will release the upcoming new 3D platformer from the creative team behind Banjo-Kazooie. Per the announcement, the new partnership will allow Playtonic to build on the project’s successful Kickstarter campaign and provide additional resources to benefit the development of the game and add value for existing Kickstarter backers and new fans. Speaking on the announcement, Playtonic Creative Lead Gavin Price stated: “From the very start we said that we’d welcome only a partner that could genuinely improve the creation of our game, while respecting the independence and creative autonomy of our development team. Team17’s 25-year industry-leading expertise will significantly benefit Yooka-Laylee in a myriad of ways, not least in expanded localisation, improved QA testing, certification and access to vastly better resources for our team. Working alongside such a strong partner will allow the Playtonic team to focus 100% of our efforts on building the best possible version of Yooka-Laylee

Yooka-Laylee To Be Bigger Than Banjo-Kazooie?

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Riding the wave of successful video game creators pitching “spiritual successors” to titles they were famous for via Kickstarter, many developers from Rare left the company so that they could try and make the spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie.  Not only did they succeed, fans flocked to their Kickstarter to help get the crew what they needed to make the game. The team recently took to a Reddit AMA and talked with fans for a while both about themselves and what they could expect from Yooka-Laylee. One of the key questions was about how long the title would be, they responded by noting they hoped that Yooka-Laylee would actually be bigger (game time wise) than Banjo-Kazooie was. Which is not an insubstantial amount of time. This question however led to the question about whether the title would come to Xbox One or PS4, creative lead Gavin Price took point and answered with this: “We would love to be able to do it at some point if we can, but for launch

Top 14 Revelations About Rare from The Yooka-Laylee AMA

Top 14 Revelations About Rare from The Yooka-Laylee AMA

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Playtonic, the new game studio formed by ex-Rare employees and currently at work on the Banjo-Kazooie-inspired 3D platformer Yooka-Laylee, conducted an AMA on Reddit today, where many previously unknown facts about your favorite Rare games of the past were revealed. Here are fourteen of the best: Development of Kazooie [Steve Mayles] Banjo was already designed with a backpack and we needed a double jump, so we just had some wings come out of it. Then later we needed a fast run move so had some legs come out. Eventually it just made sense to have a whole character in there… it was never the plan to start with! ([Gavin Price:] This is a good example of naturally evolving game design) Crunch time for the original Donkey Kong Country Towards the end of Donkey Kong Country, we had to prepare a build to send to Nintendo so we were working all days – it was a Saturday morning and I awoke to hear a noise at my window, which was odd

Banjo-Kazooie Spiritual Successor Yooka-Laylee Smashes Through Kickstarter Goal

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In just a matter of hours after its launch, the Kickstarter campaign for the new game project, Yooka-Laylee, has already blown past its pledge goal of $270,000. The title from Playtonic games has currently received over $760,000 from over 12,600 backers and climbing. It appears the game will have no trouble reaching all of its stretch goals over the next 46 days. What is it that has people so excited about this project? It is a spiritual successor to the fan-favorite Banjo-Kazooie franchise. In addition, Playtonic games consists of original founding members of game development studio Rare, Steve Mayles and Chris Sutherland, who were behind some of Rare’s most classic titles. Those developers have separated from Rare and formed a new game studio in order to develop a new buddy-platforming adventure game, and that game is Yooka-Laylee. What is amazing is that players spoke loud and clear after this Kickstarter campaign. The campaign just began a short time ago, and it has already blown past its goal. Clearly the enthusiasm

Miss Banjo-Kazooie? Support Yooka-Laylee

Miss Banjo-Kazooie? Support Yooka-Laylee

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If you’re anything like me, you’ve been starved for a new 3D platformer for a long time. Except for the heavy hitters like Mario and Sonic, consoles appear to have abandoned family genres entirely in favor of dudebro shooters. You have have gotten word that the original developers of Banjo-Kazooie (who unsurprisingly no longer work for Rare) want to make their own spiritual sequel, a new B-K in all but name. Now their newly-formed team, Playtonic Games, has officially announced the project, and they need your support to make it as big as possible. Previously known as Project Ukulele, the team of Brits have unveiled…Yooka-Laylee (say it out loud). Yooka is a chameleon, and Laylee is the bat attached to him. They were created by character artist Steve Mayles, who also designed Banjo and Kazooie as well as the Rare-ified Donkey Kong that Nintendo has used ever since. The best way to support Yooka-Laylee is to go find a giant pad with Yooka and Laylee’s face on it, stand there