According to the blog post announcing the partnership, Team 17 will be responsible for the technical side of game development, including certification, localization, and store management.
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A recent Kickstarter update by Playtonic Games stresses that the studio will still maintain creative control of the project, Team17 has been brought on board to help out with “boring-but-necessary business stuff”.
And it’s real! Playtonic Games have confirmed that Team 17 will be publishing Yooka-Laylee.
From the start we said we’d welcome a partner that could genuinely improve the creation of Yooka-Laylee, but only if that relationship maintained our core principles and independence. “Playtonic took the choice to not embrace this within the Kickstarter for the very objective that it might influence on improvement and on the time of their Kickstarter it will have been an enormous danger”. They have a very rich heritage and have worked on titles close to the heart of a lot of our team here.
Worms 4 will be available this August, Worms WMD in 2016 and Yooka-Laylee in October 2016. Thanks to our Kickstarter backers, we’re on a really positive trajectory and Team17 is acting like a booster for us on top of that by handling non-game dev tasks.
Team17 Managing Director Debbie Bestwick also expressed that Playtonic would remain in creative control in an interview with MCV UK.
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Yooka-Laylee stars the charismatic new heroes Yooka and Laylee and using an arsenal of special moves like Yooka’s tongue grapple and Laylee’s sonar blast, players will explore – and expand – gorgeous 3D worlds filled with collectibles and secrets to discover. Billed as a “spiritual successor” to Banjo-Kazooie, the Yooka-Laylee Kickstarter was
