Rare Vets Plan "Banjo-Kazooie" Successor

A New Playtonic Games Website Introduces this Newly Formed Studio, Composed of Former Employees of Rare. Though Things are at an Early Stage, they Reveal Development of a Game Codenamed, 'Project Ukulele', which CVG Says is Coming to PCs. Playtonic Calls this a "worthy spiritual successor to those fondly remembered platforming adventures we built in the past", with a Tweet indicating this is a Banjo-Kazooie Successor.




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"Ahem. Currently we’re a sextet of artists, programmers and designers – sort of like The Pussycat Dolls with computer science degress – with one thing in common; we were all once core member of famous UK studio Rare, where we helmed franchises such as Banjo-Kazooie, Donkey Kong Country and Viva Piñata. We’ve got the bloke who programmed Donkey Kong Country, the character designer behind Banjo and Kazooie, and the artist who made your console fit to burst with lavish environments across a decade’s worth of adventure games.


Together, our all-star ensemble is aiming to build its debut game, ‘Project Ukulele’, into a worthy spiritual successor to those fondly remembered platforming adventures we built in the past. By now, you might be thinking, ‘hold on mate, didn’t you make similar claims after drinking too many shandies in the pub in 2012, you muppet ?’ Perhaps. But this time it’s real ! We’re making a real, proper, actual game. Look: we even managed to trick convince Edge magazine to do us some pages ! You can read all about our venture and see the first artwork for our game in Edge issue 277, which is on sale from February 12."




Info Sources:

http://www.playtonicgames.com

http://news.playtonicgames.com/why-hello-there

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/483911/ex-rare-veterans-announce-banjo-kazooie-spiritual-successor

https://twitter.com/GameXplain/status/565332104079495169