After six years of making platformers.
Playtonic is the developer people most know as the folks behind the spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie, Yooka-Laylee. If you know them from any other game you are sorely mistaken as they didn’t develop that. With six years on this Earth, Playtonic this week announced the creation of a new publishing arm; Playtonic Friends.
“The knowledge that we were coming up to our sixth birthday triggered lots of typical Teams calls amongst the staff here at Playtonic,” said Gavin Price, CEO, Playtonic. “Should we all don party hats and video chat together? Should we have a few mocktails, whip out the Karaoke and belt out our best Beyoncé? Or should we launch a new publishing label designed to bring the best games from indie studios the world over to market? Given I had a bit of scratchy throat that evening – and that the establishment of Playtonic Friends had been brewing as a serious ambition for a while – we went with that.”
Three studios are already on board for publishing. Awe Interactive from the hit rhythm-action game BPM: Bullets Per Minute. New York indie studio Fabraz behind the title Slime-san. Okidokico, the studio behind OK Golf.
The first titles from these new partners as well as Playtonic’s own development crew should be coming soon.
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