Project Ukulele - Spiritual Successor to Banjo-Kazooie - Announced By Former Rare-Devs

Playtonic Games, is a fairly a new development studio formed past some of the creative talent behind the renowned and beloved platform-adventure games such as Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong Land, and yesterday they revealed the first details well-nigh their debut game Projection Ukulele, which is a spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie.

Become Prepare To Collect Tons And Tons Of Collectibles In Project Ukulele

Project Ukulele, is a brand new 3D platforming run a risk, that has been conceptualized every bit a spiritual successor to the team'due south (onetime Rare employees) most revered and successful releases of the by, with stunning worlds to explore, unique collectibles to uncover, fun moves to learn and hilarious characters to meet – or defeat.

During EGX Rezzed the Playtonic squad pledged to recapture the spirit and essence of their previous games, while still enforcing their reputation for innovative, fun gameplay with game worlds "that players not only explore, but also aggrandize and unlock in a totally gratis-course structure." Playtonic released two work in progress in-engine screenshots which you can see below.

Playtonic appear that they would launch a Kickstarter in May this twelvemonth for Project Ukulele, but they made sure to clarify that fifty-fifty if they didn't meet the funding goal (which would exist actually odd if they didn't) the game would yet be right on runway, the Kickstarter would allow them to expand the game, be it mechanics, new zones and such, and a manner to hopefully requite old fans some nice merchandise, as well equally "ensuring the artistic liberty required to make the game that fans desire to play."

"Our team's passion for our past games and the 3D platformer genre lead straight to the nascence of Playtonic," said Gavin Price, managing director and artistic atomic number 82. "Through PROJECT UKULELE fans volition finally get to see those pent-up ideas and passion become reality.

"Since the announcement of our studio the reaction from the community has been admittedly incredible. Through consultation with them we've decided to greatly expand the scope of our project with the launch of a Kickstarter program. By working together with fans nosotros're confident we'll be able to create a game that not matches their expectations, but ane which hops, flips and soars higher up them."

If I'm being completely honest hither, my wallet is well-nigh definitely going to be thrown at the screen when the Kickstarter launches, and it's quite good and re-assuring to know that even if they don't meet the funding goal, the game volition be made either way. And so I'yard going to assume that they already have one or ii individual investors lined up, which is quite expert. Obviously if they manage to become an enormous amount from the Kickstarter, they might even be able to ditch one of the private investors, which translates to more artistic freedom. I'g a huge fan of the old Banjo-Kazooie games and but Rare-games in full general. So I will be keeping my eye on this.