Nintendo veterans' Yooka-Laylee game reaches £1m on Kickstarter

Platform game from the makers of acclaimed Banjo-Kazooie hit its Kickstarter target in 40min, but studio head Gavin Price says it won't lead to feature creep

On Friday, Midlands-based game developer Playtonic launched a Kickstarter funding project for its opening title, Yooka-Laylee. The studio was looking for 175,000 - enough to fund an initial release on PC and Mac, with a console version to follow. The company reached that target within 40 minutes. A few hours later, it hit 1m.

"It's so unexpected, we're overwhelmed," says studio head Gavin Price. "We've not really slept much in the last few days. With 175,000 we knew we could definitely launch on PC and then follow up on console, using the funds from initial sales to keep us going. All our fans wanted a console version - so that was very important. The whole campaign has been based on feedback from the community."

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