Yooka-Laylee Fastest Video Game Kickstarter to Hit $1 Million

Yooka-Laylee, the spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie, launched its Kickstarter campaign yesterday and information technology was an accented blast. The game has already hit over $ane,000,000 in pledges — about $1.4 million in fact.

This is absolutely staggering, and quite but the most successful offset for a video game related Kickstarter always. The record was previously held past Tormer: Tides of Numenera, which hitting the mark in seven hours.

Yooka-Laylee has a good take chances of becoming one of the most successful kickstarter campaign e'er, as information technology seems that the rate of pledges is non slowing down.

You can support Yooka-Laylee on Kickstarter here.

Yooka-Laylee (previously 'Projection Ukulele') is an all-new 3D platformer from the creative talent behind the Banjo-Kazooie and Ass Kong State games. Coming together to class Playtonic Games and create a spiritual successor to their most cherished work from the past!

The new heroes, Yooka (the green one) and Laylee (the wisecracking bat with large nose) were conceptualised from the ground up for stellar platforming gameplay, created by the same character artist behind the rebooted Donkey Kong family and legendary N64 heroes Banjo and Kazooie.

You can watch the first gameplay footage of Yooka-Laylee below, as well as an interview with the developers, and some hands on impressions.

Features

Heroes Built for Fun: Our new buddy-duo were dreamed up specifically for entertaining platforming gameplay and infrequent colour coordination. We call back we've captured the spirit of our past heroes while introducing our most inventive moves notwithstanding.

An Arsenal of Abilities: Sonar blasting, natural language whipping, heaven soaring… a move roster built for platforming fun – and unlocked with added liberty. Additionally, there may or may not exist a motion involving a giant fart bubble.

Yooka regretted filling out that PPI claim.
Yooka regretted filling out that PPI claim.

A Dream Soundtrack: David Wise (Donkey Kong Country) and Grant Kirkhope (Banjo-Kazooie) combine in what's sure to be a melodic masterpiece! Seriously, clean out your ears - they're in for a treat.

Collect-em-up two.0: A roster of shiny collectibles with gameplay progression at their core (as well as other, more than valuable materials). Every collectible type in our new game will aggrandize gameplay in a meaningful way. Yes, we utilise the man responsible for DK64'southward myriad of trinkets, but nosotros've had a stern discussion. Our main collectible, Pagies, are used to unlock and expand new worlds in Yooka-Laylee.

Expandable Worlds: Feel more of the playgrounds you dearest by spending collectibles to expand your favourites into bigger, more than challenging worlds.

Take (musical) notation: our new collectibles are work in progress.
Take (musical) note: our new collectibles are work in progress.

A Cast to Final: A huge cast of memorable characters to meet (or beat) brought to life by the art and audio teams behind Banjo-Kazooie and destined to endure in future games equally part of Playtonic Universe. Look all fashion of grunts, squeaks and squawks.

Introducing Play Tonics: Detect these unique gameplay modifiers and use them to customise gameplay to suit your style. Will y'all run faster, striking harder or fly farther? Besides, are they named after our studio or vice versa? Nosotros'll never know.

Arcade machines: Each earth hides at least one secret arcade game encasing old-schoolhouse gaming goodness. Complete its retro-tastic challenge to claim your Pagie!