"There's no market for mascot platformers anymore," the men in suits said – but Playtonic Games has proven everyone wrong. Yooka-Laylee achieved its £175,000 funding target in under an hour, before going on to achieve $1 million in five. Only four projects have reached the milestone faster, and none of them were video games.
And now it's broken another record: at £1.58 million (~$2.5 million) it's officially the most funded British game in Kickstarter history – despite it still having 32 days of funding time left to go. To be fair, after that initial surge, the number of donations has slowed down significantly, with the title attracting "just" 600 backers yesterday.
The studio has been good at adding various Stretch Goals, however, with the latest promising free DLC for supporters – as long as the game reaches a total of £2 million (~$3.1 million) once the funding is finished. Have you stumped up for this throwback adventure yet? Hop, skip, and jump into the comments section below.
[source kickstarter.com, via mcvuk.com]
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Is this coming to Vita? If not that'd be a nice stretch goal...
Its done well to get the amount of backing it has had but it seems to have reached its limit. I checked a few days ago on how well this was doing and the numbers (amount pledged and number of backers) haven't really changed much. Maybe there will be a bit more interest as it draws to its conclusion - especially with the promise of free DLC to all backers if it reaches the £2m goal - it still has over a month to raise extra £400k to reach this target though
We still see Marios and Sonics, there IS a market for mascot platformers, just not as widespread as in the past.
I don't think I will back it. I am very interested, but most of the goals are met, which means the slowing down on pledges. But I will buy it day 1.
@BLPs what is your project?
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