Team 17 Will Publish Yooka-Laylee

[Andre]

Earlier this year, the minds behind the Banjo-Kazooie series brought a spiritual successor to the classic Nintendo 64 platformers to Kickstarter. Titled Yooka-Laylee, the game’s initial goal of $240,041 was smashed in 40 minutes. By the time the campaign had finished, it had raised over $3.2 million.

While that is certainly a whole lot more money than developer Playtonic Games asked for, much of it will go to fulfilling the Kickstarter campaign’s many stretch goals. Beyond simply filling the Kickstarter orders, the game needs to sell in order to allow the studio to make future games. To that end, Playtonic has joined up with Team 17, publisher of the Worms series and indie charmer The Escapists.

“Team17 has significant experience in making the most of releasing a game,” Playtonic head Gavin Price said, speaking to MCV. “Personally I feel it would be a great shame if after our great Kickstarter success, we delivered on our promise of a great game and then it underperformed sales-wise because we didn’t have the knowledge, or made a mistake in the way we released or marketed the game.”

Publisher Team 17 is bringing more than experience to the table. In addition to having published several games, the company has relationships with manufacturers and retailers that could lead to actual boxed copies of Yooka-Laylee making their way to store shelves.

“There is a large demand for a physical game,” Team 17’s Debbie Bestwick said.

“Playtonic took the decision not to include this in the Kickstarter for the very reason that it could impact on development and at the time of their Kickstarter it would have been a big risk. Team17 has lots of experience in physical and will share ideas and opportunities with Playtonic — so absolutely we will be looking into it.”

Source: Digital Trends

[The Colonel]

now we just have to hope they don't get involved in the game's development in any way

idk about team 17's quality as a publisher but holy **** you don't want to touch any modern games they've developed

[Brian]

This thread is a real work of art.

With this news, I'm not sure if I'm happy about Team17 since their old games were amazing, but everything more recent feels kind of off. I mean it's not like they're developing it though, so it should be good.

[Crystal Mech]

"Publish"

I almost had a heart attack. Between their feverish rehashing of the Worms franchise and the godawful, allegedly-updated PC rerelease of Worms World Party, Team17 would be one of my last choices for being involved in making the game.

If they're just publishing it, though, then that's fine. It's a means to an end.

[Andre]

Apparently they will be running a lot of quality assurance testing and support on the back end. We shall see...

[The Banjonator]

Bleh.

[The Colonel]

Originally Posted by Andre

Apparently they will be running a lot of quality assurance testing and support on the back end.

uh oh

[Andre]

I mean, that's often a publisher responsibility, along with managing the release of the game.

[Banjokun]

I see no downside in this at all.

[Mombi Jombo]

Oh boy! Hype Overload!

[The Farsight]

Originally Posted by The Colonel

now we just have to hope they don't get involved in the game's development in any way

idk about team 17's quality as a publisher but holy **** you don't want to touch any modern games they've developed

[The Colonel]

i am confused

this is the emoticon showing that i am confused

[qwertykins76]

http://www.playtonicgames.com/making-friends/