Team17 partners up with Playtonic to publish Yooka-Laylee

Remember that exciting Kickstarter campaign for Playtonic Games’ Yooka-Laylee from a couple of months back? Well with the spiritual successor to the Banjo-Kazooie series soaring past its goal, the developers have decided to partner up with Team17 to actually publish the game.

Team17 will also lend its resources to help QA and localize the game, and generally allow Playtonic to focus on development.

Yooka-Laylee is scheduled for an October 2016 release for the PS4, Xbox One, Wii U and PC/Mac.

Games industry veteran and independent games label Team17 has today announced its partnership with indie developer Playtonic Games to help publish Yooka-Laylee, an all-new 3D platformer from the creative talent behind Banjo-Kazooie.

The partnership will allow Playtonic to build on its hugely successful Kickstarter campaign ? the biggest ever for a UK game studio ? with additional resources designed to benefit development and add value to both existing Kickstarter backers and new fans.

Gavin Price, Creative Lead at Playtonic commented, ?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 for backers and new fans alike.?

Debbie Bestwick, Team17?s Managing Director added, ?We have deep respect for the team at Playtonic. They have a very rich heritage and have worked on titles close to the heart of a lot of our team here. We?ve been following their Kickstarter campaign with interest and are delighted to welcome them onto our label and into the Team17 family. I can?t wait to start working together on this great game and hope this is the start of a long term partnership between Team17 and Playtonic.?

Yooka-Laylee stars the charismatic new heroes Yooka and Laylee and using an arsenal of special moves like Yooka?s tongue grapple and Laylee?s sonar blast, players will explore ? and expand ? gorgeous 3D worlds filled with collectibles and secrets to discover.

The highly-anticipated project will feature environments and characters crafted by the artists behind the genre?s most beloved classics, plus a dream soundtrack created in collaboration with legendary composers David Wise (Donkey Kong Country series), Steve Burke (Kameo: Elements of Power) and Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Kazooie series).

Yooka-Laylee is planned for an October 2016 release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, PC, Linux and Mac platforms.

To keep up to date with all the information on Yooka-Laylee please visit www.playtonicgames.com, like on Facebook and follow on Twitter.

Paul Bryant

Staff Writer

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