Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor revealed as Yooka-Laylee

[zenith16]

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EP Daily Rundown – May 7, 2015

Today in the Rundown,
Vic and his trusty sidekick Scott tell us what they think of
the new 3D platformer Yooka-Laylee,
and discuss the long-in-development Assassin's Creed movie.

And here's the full show below
EP Daily Full Show – May 7, 2015


Today on EP Daily, we examine the new 3D platformer
Yooka-Laylee in the Rundown;
Jose straps on the Oculus Rift to look at
the virtual reality platformer Lucky's Tale;
we catch up with Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof to uncover the secrets of his sci-fi movie Tomorrowland;
Vic and Marissa review all the new DLC for Mario Kart 8; and finally,
Vic and Scott tell us about their dream interviews in the Twitter Question of the Day.



source: EPN.tv

 

[zenith16]

In Yooka-Laylee You’ll Learn New Moves From Trowzer The Snake. May 12, 2015 . 2:31pm

Yes, that’s really his name. Trowzer the Snake. Honest.

Playtonic has unveiled the first support character for Yooka-Laylee. Keep a straight face for Trowzer the Snake.

According to creative Lead Gavin Price, “Trowzer thinks of himself as the best salesman ever, but with his downbeat appearance and 1980’s mobile phone, life never took off for him.” His role in the game is to teach you new abilities, and to demonstrate them, in exchange for money – being an adder he’s more than happy to count it up.

As the illustration shows, Trowzer wears a pair of shorts, coiling his body in and out of each leg, which means his movements will be springy as slithering would be quite difficult in the position he adapts.

Read more stories about PC & PlayStation 4 & Xbox One & Yooka-Laylee on Siliconera.

source: Siliconera

 

[Silvermoth]

Haha! Trowser snake. I've missed the old puns

 

[KillerMcQueen]

 

[KillerMcQueen]

Some new art and screenshots

and the rest

Spoiler

New music tease for the ice world by Grant Kirkhope

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Only a few days left on the kickstarter and nearing $3,000,000 in pledges.

 

[KillerMcQueen]

Only three hours to go on the kickstarter, game has surpassed all its goals so all backers for the game will be able to get any eventual DLC free.

UPDATE: Yooka-Laylee kickstarter now finished. £2,090,104 ($3,270,208) pledged in total.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/playtonic/yooka-laylee-a-3d-platformer-rare-vival/description

 

[zenith16]

Yooka-Laylee Kickstarter Ends With All Stretch Goals Reached. June 17, 2015 . 9:03am


The final stretch goal of £2 million was reached in the final 24 hours.

After 47 days, Playtonic’s Kickstarter campaign for its Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor Yooka-Laylee has come to an end with £2.09 million raised via Kickstarter with another £30k through PayPal donations.

Playtonic reached its $175,000 funding goal early on and went on to reach every single one of its stretch goals. The last of the stretch goals was reached in the final 24 hours. It was set at £2 million and now that it’s been reached all of those backed the game on Kickstarter will receive free DLC after the game’s initial launch.

Other stretch goals that were reached add an orchestral soundtrack, an N64 shader mode, a two-to-four local multiplayer mode, and a developer walkthrough and commentary video.

The stretch goals also mean that Yooka-Laylee will launch at the same time across PC, Wii U, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4 at the end of 2016.

Read more stories about PC & PlayStation 4 & Wii U & Xbox One & Yooka-Laylee on Siliconera.

source: Siliconera

 

[KillerMcQueen]

Some new-ish footage, still in the test world so nothing really new but there's audio and the graphics/animations have been polished up a bit.

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[Resistance61513]

You can't help but smile watching/looking at this game...at least, I can't. This takes me back to my childhood years of gaming. A model/system of mechanics that are obviously archaic to todays standards but, they certainly hold up well.

I'm rather looking forward to this franchise. Here's hoping the lightening can strike like it did with their other IP's.

 

[Lily Adler]

This along with A Hat in Time and Mighty No. 9 are my most anticipated games.

 

[Thundercrack85]

A Hat in Time?

 

[Lily Adler]

It's a platformer that harkens back to the ones of the N64 era of games:

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It's gorgeous and looks fun. There are some let's plays of the alpha and beta builds of the game.

 

[Soapy]

Team17 will publish Yooka-Laylee and eyes retail release

 

[zenith16]

Wii U, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC
Yooka-Laylee adds retro character Rextro Sixtyfourus
Published 11 hours ago. 18 comments.

A locky, polygonal, scan-lined dinosaur.

Playtonic Games has revealed Rextro Sixtyfourus, a new retro-inspired character set to appear in Yooka-Laylee.



The dinosaur character is designed by Mark Stevenson and comes straight of a 90s 3D platformer, complete with a blocky, polygonal, scan-lined body. He is guardian of the arcade machines hidden across each level. Each world has at least one arcade machine, and completing its retro challenge will earn you another Pagie.





“We decided on using a dinosaur pretty early on as this is a creature that naturally associates with a past era,” Stevenson told IGN. “Then I think mostly my inspiration came from work I’d done previously on characters for the Donkey Kong 64 game. From this work I knew the kind of forms we had to create due to low polygon counts, so this inspired the shapes used to create Rextro’s blocky feet and hands that are virtually cubes. All the polygons in Rexto have hard edges as well: this affects how the light shines on him meaning you can basically see all the polygon faces as individual facets.




“I wanted Rex to to feel like he captured the era of games from my early career which also included work on the Donkey Kong games on the Super Nintendo. Finally just to reinforce the retro aspect some more, I created a custom shader that creates a scanline effect on Rextro to make him look like he’s being viewed on an old school CRT TV.”




Yooka-Laylee is expected to launch for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Wii U, PC, Mac, and Linux in October 2016.

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source: Gematsu

 

[Duke]

Looks really interesting, can't wait to try it.

 

[zenith16]

Laylee announcement incoming?

18 hours ago​

We’re all about teasing on social media over here on PCGamesN.com, using social media to tease bits of info and generally engage with our...
Read more



source:PCGamesN

 

[Silvermoth]

I hope so. I want a release date

 

[KillerMcQueen]

Update from the official site, further updates will be given over the next few weeks.

http://www.playtonicgames.com/raising-the-curtain/

 

[zenith16]

nice

 

[Silvermoth]

I can already see who the bottles type character will be

 

[Lily Adler]

The trouser snake, right.

 

[KillerMcQueen]

New update

Happy Friday! Allow us to rein in the weekend by introducing you to two of the latest characters in the Playtonic universe; the hapless, multi-limbed scientist Dr. Puzz and her traitorous former colleague Dr. Quack!

In Yooka-Laylee, Dr. Quack is a ruthless, exosuit-wearing fowl, who’s making the best of a bad situation under the corporate rule of Capital B. The good doctor wasn’t always this unpleasant, but the ruthless takeover of his Quack Corp organisation has persuaded Quack to concoct all manner of crude inventions to satisfy the demands of his new boss – and the shareholders, of course.

Quack’s sweet, naive prodigy, Dr. Puzz proved far more morally rigid than her former colleague, breaking ties with Quack Corp as soon as the exosuits started stirring – and taking her own inventions with her. The tentacled technician – designed by Ed ‘Mumbo Jumbo’ Bryan – is the gateway to all of Yooka-Laylee’s wild and wonderful transformations, which we’ll be revealing in the near future.

 

[Silvermoth]

Oh why can't this game be out yet already?

The trouser snake, right.

Maybe, in my experience they tend to be rather friendly

 

[Soapy]

Delayed until early 2017, but here's the first gameplay trailer:

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[KillerMcQueen]

Unfortunate about the delay, but not surprising, awesome to finally get a trailer though.