Remember Nintendo 64's Banjo-Kazooie the 1998 game featuring a bear with a bird in his backpack that fought an evil witch? The popular game – well loved by many kids of the 90s – sold more than two million copies and even had a success sequel. But everything came to an abrupt end when the company halted production of the g series prematurely and the team of developers broke up to work on other projects.
Now the team who developed Banjo-Kazooie are back togethe and they're developing "Yooka-Laylee," the "spiritual successor" to Banjo-Kazooie. "Our new heroes, Yooka (the green bloke with no pants) and Laylee (the wisecracking lady-bat with the big nose) were conceptualized from the ground up for stellar platforming gameplay, and created by the same character artist behind the rebooted Donkey Kong family and legendary N64 heroes Banjo and Kazooie," says the Kickstarter description.
The game is a platformer, like Banjo Kazooie, where players employ each character's special abilities to traverse five unique worlds. The abilities include Yooka's tongue grapple and Laylee's tactical sonar blast, as well as flying, jumping and more.
While the game certainly looks like fun, what's more interesting for now is how much well it's done on Kickstarter. The campaign goal was to raise $270,041 in thirty days, but ended up raising more than one million dollars in the first two days. "The current reigning champ for most crowd-funded Kickstarter game projects is Exploding Kittens, a card game from Elan Lee and The Oatmeal-creator Matthew Inman, which raised $8,782,571, around $2 million of that in the first 24 hours. Second and third in line are the Ouya game console, which raised $8,596,474, and Torment: Tides of Numenera, which raised $4,188,927," reports WIRED.
While Yooka-Laylee hasn't raised more than Exploding Kittens in its first 24 hours, it has raised more than what most businesses manage in that short period – and that's impressive.
You can check out Yooka-Laylee's Kickstarter campaign here.
