Team17 to publish Yooka-Laylee

“There is a large demand for a physical game”, said Bestwick.

Team17 has revealed that they have teamed with indie developer Playtonic Games to help publish Yooka-Laylee, an all-new 3D platformer from the creative talent behind Banjo Kazooie.

From the start we said we’d welcome a partner that could genuinely improve the creation of Yooka-Laylee, but only if that relationship maintained our core principles and independence.

Team 17 will also help Playtonic, the studio set-up by former Rare veterans, with localisation, certification, QA, marketing, and other businessy things, according to MCV. “Playtonic took the choice to not embrace this within the Kickstarter for the very objective that it might influence on improvement and on the time of their Kickstarter it will have been an enormous danger”.

Yooka-Laylee tells of two pals, the green lizard Yooka and Laylee, his sassy female bat friend, as they travel together on a platforming journey similar to Banjo-Kazooie all those years ago.

The partnership allows Team17 to deal with the business side of things while Playtonic concentrates on the game itself.

Over 80,000 people backed Yooka-Laylee on Kickstarter and it smashed several records and ended up collecting more than £2 million. Yooka-Laylee is tentatively scheduled for an October 2016 release date.

The highly anticipated project will feature environments and characters designed inspired by the genre’s most beloved classics, plus a soundtrack composed by David Wise (Donkey Kong Country), Steve Burke (Kameo: Elements of Power) and Grant Kirkhope (Banjo Kazooie).

The Kickstarter for Yooka-Laylee ended in June raising a pretty decent sum to bring the game to Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4, Wii U and Xbox One in 2016.