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The soundtrack is composed by Grant Kirkhope, David Wise, and Steve Burke, all former Rare composers. Kirkhope composed the soundtracks for Donkey Kong 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Banjo-Tooie, and Goldeneye 007; Wise composed the soundtracks for the Donkey Kong Country games on SNES.Yooka-Laylee is an upcoming action-adventure platforming video game for Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4, Wii U and Xbox One with an expected release window of early 2017.[2] It is being developed by Playtonic Games, a group of several former key personnel from Rare during the Nintendo 64 era, as a spiritual successor to their work from that time period. Among them, Banjo-Kazooie designers Chris Sutherland, Steve Mayles and Steven Hurst reprise their respective roles of lead programmer and voice actor, character artist, and environmental artist.[3] Grant Kirkhope also returns as composer.
On 8 September 2012, a group of former Rare employees announced their intent to create a spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie. They joined under the Twitter handle Mingy Jongo, a boss from the game Banjo-Tooie, with cooperation from ex-Rare developers, such as Grant Kirkhope. The account was left abandoned and the project confirmed to be dead by Kirkhope in a Reddit AMA.[10] Later, the account was revived under its current name Playtonic Games. Playtonic then announced that they were planning a spiritual successor to the Banjo-Kazooie franchise titled Yooka-Laylee, formerly codenamed Project Ukulele.[11] Yooka-Laylee is believed to have been the result of Mingy Jongo's work, which was similarly based on the Unity game engine and was intended to be crowdfunded through Kickstarter.
The game's funding project was announced on Kickstarter on 1 May 2015. It reached its initial crowdfunding campaign goal of £175,000 within thirty-eight minutes[12] and its initial highest goal of £1 million in 21 hours,[13] at the time becoming the fastest video game in Kickstarter history to reach US$1 million.[14] Playtonic Games later sent out a public statement thanking all their supporters and promising more updates in the future.[15] The campaign added four additional stretch goals, all of which have been reached. Those who contributed predetermined amounts to the campaign will receive special rewards related to the game's release. It is currently the highest-funded UK video game in Kickstarter history, passing the previous record held by Elite: Dangerous,[16] earning £2,090,104.
Yooka-Laylee is set to be released on Microsoft Windows, OS X, Linux, PlayStation 4, Wii U, and Xbox One,[17] with success in the crowdfunding campaign allowing a simultaneous release for consoles. The game will feature 3D worlds by environment artist Steven Hurst, whose credits include the Banjo-Kazooie series and Viva Piñata. Some characters will be designed by Kevin Bayliss, who helped design the modern Kong characters in the Donkey Kong Country series, and Ed Bryan, who designed characters in Banjo-Kazooie. Former Rare composers David Wise, Grant Kirkhope and Steve Burke will collaborate to compose the game's orchestral score. A soundtrack CD will be released and rewarded to certain supporters of the crowdfunding campaign. The game will feature an optional "N64 shader" mode, which will imitate the graphical appearance of Nintendo 64 games.[2]
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