Playtonic Games, the folks that made Yooka-Laylee and Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair, are celebrating its 6th anniversary by launching a new publishing label: Playtonic Friends.
Three indie studios, namely Awe Interactive (BPM: Bullets Per Minute), Fabraz (Slime-san), and okidokio (OK Golf series) have all signed up with Playtonic Friends to publish their next game.
Playtonic CEO Gavin Price has this to say in the press statement. We just have to put it here in full:
“The knowledge that we were coming up to our sixth birthday triggered lots of typical Teams calls amongst the staff here at Playtonic.
“Should we all don party hats and video chat together? Should we have a few mocktails, whip out the Karaoke and belt out our best Beyoncé? Or should we launch a new publishing label designed to bring the best games from indie studios the world over to market?
“Given I had a bit of scratchy throat that evening – and that the establishment of Playtonic Friends had been brewing as a serious ambition for a while – we went with that.”
Playtonic will be utilising their know-how in publishing to help fellow indie devs reach a bigger audience.
“While everyone at Playtonic has dreams of recreating Scrooge McDuck splashing around in his pool of cold, hard cash, in reality our motivation for setting up Playtonic Friends was to take what we’ve learned about producing & releasing video games and use it to aid developers of a like mind looking for a fruitful route to market,” adds Steph Darrah, Business Development Manager, Playtonic.
Playtonic Games themselves are also working on their own new game.
No announcements of any new game for now, but expect to see four new indie games carrying the (newly redesigned) Playtonic logo coming soon.