Playtonic talks Yooka-Laylee – not wanting to copy Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong Country inspiration, more
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The latest Yooka-Laylee comes from Polygon, who sat down with Grant Kirkhope and Andy Robinson to discuss the 3D platformer. The two commented on topics such as not wanting to copy Banjo-Kazooie, taking inspiration (and elements) from Donkey Kong Country, and more.
Head past the break for a roundup of the Q&A. You can find Polygon’s original piece here.
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Yooka-Laylee developer interview with Grant Kirkhope and Andy Robinson
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At E3 2015 this week, GameXplain sat down with Grant Kirkhope and Andy Robinson to talk about Yooka-Laylee. You can watch the full half-hour discussion below.
More off-screen Yooka-Laylee footage
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Off-screen Yooka-Laylee footage
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Yooka-Laylee Kickstarter hits £2M stretch goal, gets free DLC
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Playtonic’s Yooka-Laylee Kickstarter will end in just 13 hours and on its final day, it also hit its final stretch goal. A total of £2 million has been donated by backers, which means that everyone who contributed money to the project will get the game’s eventual DLC for free.
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New Yooka-Laylee screenshots
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Playtonic shared three new screenshots from Yooka-Laylee today. Find them in the gallery below.
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New Yooka-Laylee art, Playtonic on what the game learned from Banjo-Kazooie
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Playtonic posted a new piece of art from Yooka-Laylee today. You can give it a look above.
Additionally, IGN has a video/interview up with a couple of the developers as they play through Banjo-Kazooie and discuss what Yooka-Laylee is learning from that game. That can be found below.
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Yooka-Laylee main character ideas included a tiger, witch and a broom with eyes
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Yooka-Laylee features a chameleon and bat as the platformer’s main characters. However, those two didn’t start out as the initial ideas.
Responding to one fan in a Reddit AMA, Playtonic’s Steve Mayles revealed that he initially wanted to have a tiger in Yooka-Laylee. The team also considered a witch and a broom with eyes.
Mayles’ full comments are as follows:
My initial idea was a tiger as they are great-looking animals, but he never got past the sketch phase. He was deemed a bit too much of a ‘hero’ when all of my past characters were more like underdogs. We even tried a witch and a broom with eyes at one point!
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Playtonic reveals Yooka-Laylee’s Ghost Writers enemy
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Playtonic revealed a new character for Yooka-Laylee today. We have a first look at the Ghost Writers, a type of enemy in the game.
Playtonic said of the Ghost Writers in its latest blog post:
In their physical days these articulate phantoms were the scribes behind Yooka-Laylee’s mysterious book worlds. However, following their suspicious demise the Ghost Writers’ unsettled souls are now cursed to endlessly wander their creations in search of spectre salvation. Free their spirits for a special reward…
Yooka-Laylee’s creative lead, Gavin Price explains: “The Ghost Writers haunting the book worlds will add a fun twist to collecting. There are a variety of different types hidden in every world, each with their own unique requirement for being caught.
“Mix that with the different areas in which you’ll find them, and hopefully they’ll result in a fresh challenge with every encounter. They’re like a living (un-living?) collectible.”
Character artist at large, Mr. Steve(n) Mayles described the design process behind his band of ghouls: “As these characters aren’t based on any particular creature, it was good fun to go a bit crazy with them. And we are crazy guys at Playtonic Towers… never a dull moment, etc.
“The ghost was originally going to be one character, but I sketched so many thumbnails (50+) it sparked the idea of having 5 separate ghosts with different abilities.”
Yooka-Laylee will launch in Wii U in October 2016.
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Playtonic talks Yooka-Laylee – Kickstarter success, characters, more
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Beta64 recently had an opportunity to speak with some of the folks at Playtonic. The developers talked all about its upcoming game Yooka-Laylee, but there was a decent amount of chatter about Banjo-Kazooie and Donkey Kong 64 as well. Check out the interview in full below.
