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Ex-Rare employees had formed a company called Playtonic, and through a Kickstarter campaign, they created Yooka-Laylee, a spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie - http://www.playtonicgames.com/





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From Siliconera.com -

"Among the team are Chris Sutherland who was the lead programmer of Donkey Kong Country and the Banjo-Kazooie games, and who also voiced Banjo and Kazooie – he’ll be voicing the characters of Playtonic’s new game, too. The artist and creator of Banjo and Kazooie, Steve Mayles, is also on the team. Grant Kirkhope, the composer of many of Rare’s games including the Banjo-Kazooie games, is on board to create music for the project as well.

“There’s been so much pent-up passion for doing something like this, because we’ve all been sat on a lot of these ideas since Banjo-Tooie came out,” Playtonic’s lead and previously designer of Viva Pinata Gavin Price told Edge.

Playtonic’s current goal is to make a proof-of-concept and then upscale to an “N64-size” team of between 10 to 15 staff, and many other ex-Rare employees are in waiting on these positions.

Right now, the team has funding for this first game and have a long-term business plan that will see the team tackling other genres after this initial 3D platformer, but only if they arrive at them naturally rather than trying to force themselves on a certain type of game.

Playtonic is currently aiming to bring this debut title to PC and certain console platforms and hopes to use Steam Early Access to get it into players’ hands as soon as possible for feedback. “There’s a history of working with Nintendo, so we’d naturally love to see our game on a Nintendo platform. I people tell us to make Wii U our target console platform, then we’ve got the flexibility to do that,” Rice also told Edge."

I'm very excited for this, as I loved Banjo-Kazooie as a child.

I want to see what comes out of this, hopefully Playtonic and Nintendo will join back together. Losing Rare was a really bad situation Nintendo was put in.

i would love for it to be on wiiu

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I wonder what kind of characters they will be. I seriously, SERIOUSLY hope they're not going to be human. I'd really like to see more video games staring things besides humans. (I know everyone knows my interests by now, but I still hope they keep with animal characters. And yes, I know we are humans, but that doesn't mean EVERYTHING has to star our species.)

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Oh, neat! I never got to play much Banjo-Kazooie, but I really liked what I did play. Anything in that vein is going to be fun and I'm liking the concept art already. :)

It may be interesting. But then I remember that Sonic Boom was being advertised with a team of ex-Naughty Dog devs. Granted, heyday Rare had quite the pedigree. But I'm taking this with a mountain of salt. <.<;

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It may be interesting. But then I remember that Sonic Boom was being advertised with a team of ex-Naughty Dog devs. Granted, heyday Rare had quite the pedigree. But I'm taking this with a mountain of salt. <.<;

Sonic is cursed. Not sure what else to say. While Sonic does get a good game every now and then, he hasn't really produced that true "Come Back To Glory" title since Sonic Adventure 2. (Debatable)

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It may be interesting. But then I remember that Sonic Boom was being advertised with a team of ex-Naughty Dog devs. Granted, heyday Rare had quite the pedigree. But I'm taking this with a mountain of salt. <.<;

Sonic is cursed. Not sure what else to say. While Sonic does get a good game every now and then, he hasn't really produced that true "Come Back To Glory" title since Sonic Adventure 2. (Debatable)

Generations?

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I'm very excited for this, as I loved Banjo-Kazooie as a child.

Same.

I recently brought the original n64 cart of banjjo and kajooie and i loved it so im excited for this.

New images and details~

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/...oming-soon.aspx

Project Ukelele confirmed to be a game called "Yooka-Laylee"!

Wooow! I'm really liking this

Karma-karma-karma-karma-karma chameleon...

But seriously though, this game looks pretty good. I'm hoping Nintendo agrees to put it on Wii U.

I hope the funding goes well, they said it would come out sooner if it gets funded well enough. I don't want a wait as long as Mighty No. 9 (I can't remember how long the wait is/was, but I think it was over a year). Although I never played a Banjo & Kazoie game, Yooka-Laylee reminds me of my favourite games from when I first played games. I hope we see some actual gameplay soon, though.

I might donate tomorrow. This looks really cool.

I can't wait to see this game! I love platformers with cute animals. Hope they make amiibo for it

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I might donate tomorrow. This looks really cool.

This.

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I might donate tomorrow. This looks really cool.

This.

How much are you both donating? I can't donate because of multiple reasons, but if I could, I would probably donate £5-10.

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I might donate tomorrow. This looks really cool.

This.

How much are you both donating? I can't donate because of multiple reasons, but if I could, I would probably donate £5-10.

i have 15 dollars so im buying mewtwo for smash and 10 bucks for this

I reckon Yooka is gonna be the female, and Laylee the male in this game. Yooka has a feminine look IMO.

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I reckon Yooka is gonna be the female, and Laylee the male in this game. Yooka has a feminine look IMO.

I sorta see it, but at the same time I don't.

It's mainly the eyes, and her overall smoothness compared to Laylee (I will call Yooka female and Laylee male for now). And I think the back of her head kinda looks like a short but feminine hair cut:

yooka is pretty cute

OMG, Kazooie is a ****ING BAT!!! OMG I LOVE BATS!!! <3

I wish I could donate, but I have no way of doing so.

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I hope the funding goes well, they said it would come out sooner if it gets funded well enough. I don't want a wait as long as Mighty No. 9 (I can't remember how long the wait is/was, but I think it was over a year).

Well the crowdfunded game has now ironically been picked up by publisher Deep Silver, so that may have something to do with it...

...As for this, I'll admit my interest is piqued considering what they've done with 3 months and no real funding. I'd like to see what the Kickstarter plans are for this, but I'm still quite wary. <.<;

this is intersiting i look forward to it

I have a feeling the Kickstarter will bring us some echcellent news...

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I have a feeling the Kickstarter will bring us some echcellent news...

If this happens I will be the happiest man alive. We need Jontron to voice a character in Yooka-Laylee right now, Playtonic!

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This.

How much are you both donating? I can't donate because of multiple reasons, but if I could, I would probably donate £5-10.

i have 15 dollars so im buying mewtwo for smash and 10 bucks for this

Well of course you're going to have to take Tax in account for Mewtwo, plus if you only have cash, the cheapest eShop card is $10.

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OMG, Kazooie is a ****ING BAT!!! OMG I LOVE BATS!!! <3

I wish I could donate, but I have no way of doing so.

Kazooie isn't in the game.

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OMG, Kazooie is a ****ING BAT!!! OMG I LOVE BATS!!! <3

I wish I could donate, but I have no way of doing so.

Kazooie isn't in the game.

He means the Kazooie-esque character, Laylee, the one that sits on the larger character's back and flies around. They serve the same purpose and are basically designed to be inherently similar, as to why he referred to him as Kazooie. He doesn't actually think Kazooie is in this game.

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OMG, Kazooie is a ****ING BAT!!! OMG I LOVE BATS!!! <3

I wish I could donate, but I have no way of doing so.

Kazooie isn't in the game.

He means the Kazooie-esque character, Laylee, the one that sits on the larger character's back and flies around. They serve the same purpose and are basically designed to be inherently similar, as to why he referred to him as Kazooie. He doesn't actually think Kazooie is in this game.

Then he should've just said Laylee

This game is a definite must play for me.

Has it been said when this game will release?

As for their genders, what I want is Yooka being male, Laylee female but odds are it's the other way around. Hard to tell, they both look more male than female.

Perhaps they DO have genders, but they wont be revealed? Keeping it to the players imagination would be a fun idea.


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Kazooie isn't in the game.

He means the Kazooie-esque character, Laylee, the one that sits on the larger character's back and flies around. They serve the same purpose and are basically designed to be inherently similar, as to why he referred to him as Kazooie. He doesn't actually think Kazooie is in this game.

Then he should've just said Laylee

If you knew what I meant, what difference does it make?


I'd really like to see this game do well, but as much as I would like to see Yooka-Laylee succeed, I've learned better than to get my hopes up for games staring anthropomorphic animals. Sometimes a game staring animals is surprisingly good, but good animal games are very rare these days. I almost feel like games staring animals are doomed to suck.

Imo this is gonna be fabulous

Ya know, I wonder if this game will have the "yabba-yabba-boggle-boggle" voice acting Banjo-Kazooie had. That'd be funny to see again.

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Ya know, I wonder if this game will have the "yabba-yabba-boggle-boggle" voice acting Banjo-Kazooie had. That'd be funny to see again.

Oh please no. It may be funny at first, but this is 2015 and I can't stand that in the old Banjo games anymore. <.<

Kickstarter opens in less than half an hour:

http://www.playtonicgames.com/#kickstarter

ITS OPEN!!!!

Wow, and a lot of backers pledged within a minute too X3

Im pledging 15 instead of 10

You have a credit/gift card? The payments are digital after all.

It's just been confirmed that Yooka is male and Laylee is female

https://www.kickstarter.com/pr...rmer-rare-vival

My money is flying into the computer screen what do I do.
Rare(lel) post in the Video Gaming section again,but seriously,I've been waiting for this for more than half a decade(got late in the fandom mostly because I never had a legit N64). I can't afford it right now, but oh man I'm so getting the console code rank even if I'm still saving up for a WiiU.
Also steel drums and trumphets. Yes.

Yooka-Laylee is already about to reach it's goal. *Hype Initiated*