Yooka-Laylee: Games TM feature/interview now available online

In a recent issue, Games TM magazine featured an interview with Playtonic Games, the developers of the highly-awaited Yooka-Laylee. It covers quite a few topics, starting with the incredible reception from fans during the Kickstarter campaign.

Here’s what Mark Stevenson (Technical Art Director) said about this:

“As Playtonic when we did the Kickstarter [campaign], it’s all just been an overwhelming response”

The developers also talk about the need for transparency, and how important it is to balance everything in order to avoid showing up too much:

“Our biggest problem with it is finding the right balance of not spoiling it. A lot of feedback we’ve had from fans is ‘don’t do early access, don’t show us too much’. They want to see stuff, but they obviously don’t want to spoil the whole experience for themselves.”

In fact, it’s precisely in order to show players what Yooka-Laylee would play like, but without spoiling anything, that they created the Toybox demo.

Fortunately for Playtonic Games, players were quite receptive when the developers told them they would need a bit more time to develop the game:

“The response to us saying we need a little bit more time because we want to make it as good as we can was great. People were going ‘yeah, please make it the best you can’.”

The interview then goes on to cover Playtonic Games itself, the passion of the team members, how they started with just a handful of developers and the team then kept getting bigger and bigger, and more.

The developers also talk about nostalgia, how important it was for Yooka-Laylee to be current and relevant (and not just a clone of games they made in the past), and a lot more. Click here to check out the full interview!

Yooka-Laylee (Switch) will be released next year.

Source: Games TM