Playtonic Games (also known as Playtonic Limited) is a video game developer formed by ex-Rare employees. The studio's first game will be Yooka-Laylee.
History[]
On September 8, 2012, a group of ex-Rare members with composer Grant Kirkhope banded together under the Twitter account name Mingy Jongo, named after the boss of the same name from Banjo-Tooie, with intentions of making a Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor. The account became dead and was later revived as the Playtonic Games Twitter account. On February 10, 2015, Playtonic Games revealed that they were creating a new Banjo-Kazooie spiritual successor titled "Project Ukulele". On April 30, 2015, the game was revealed to be called Yooka-Laylee.
Playtonic launched the Kickstarter campaign for Yooka-Laylee on May 1, 2015. It reached its initial crowdfunding campaign goal of £175,000 within thirty-eight minutes and its initial highest goal of £1 million in 21 hours.
On July 30, 2015, Team17 announced they partnered with Playtonic in order to publish Yooka-Laylee.
Notable employees[]
- Andy Robinson
- Becky Lavender
- Chris Sutherland
- Dave Rose
- Dean Wilson
- Gavin Price
- Jens Restemeier
- Karn Bianco
- Mark Stevenson
- Ross Bullimore
- Steve Mayles
- Steven Hurst
Gameography[]
2016 | Yooka-Laylee | Team17 |