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[a lot of good ideas] Thanks, but at the post where I discussed the Ghost Writers, I had already moved on from the first idea I came up with, with the villainous duo. As more is revealed about the game, I intend to approximate the major details, and when it is finally released, it'll be fun to see ...

You know, concerning that traitorous Writer idea, there is an opportunity to create a sympathetic villain, to increase the impact the game has on the player. It's not uncommon for artists to get attached to their works. However, the main villain in Yooka-Laylee could take it a bit too far. The villa...

Thought this would be interesting, for those who wonder about Unity3D and modding. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnE_PtJoHkA This video demonstrates an easy way to introduce modding in a Unity3D project by using the Managed Extension Framework to introduce new logic and the Runtime Model Importer ...

Luckily we don't have to rely on random opinions because the developers have clearly laid out their intention to create a spiritual successor to Banjo Kazooie. A spiritual successor is "a successor to a work of fiction which does not build upon the storyline established by a previous work as d...

Now I wonder... So basically one is able to easily reverse-engineer the whole game back to the beginning. Meaning we can have an semi open-source game all because it it made in unity? How much freedom does unity offer script wise? For your first question, yes and no. Yes, it is possible to decompil...

It's a game made using Unity3D engine, so if they really wanted to, Playtonic could release the project files used to create the game and let modders go nuts. Unfortunately, this is basically an invitation for unsavory individuals to pawn off Yooka-Laylee as their own, so the dev team would probably...

Once again people forgetting what the entire point of even starting the project was. A big AYYYYYYYY LMAO to that. And what was the purpose of the Ukelele project? In my opinion, it was to revive a genre of video games that was neglected by AAA publishers for a while now. In order to accomplish tha...

I'm currently satisfied by the artstyle shown in the concept art, but I think that the OP has a valid criticism on the "plastic" look in the early screenshots. Still, I feel that this flaw can be fixed through a change in lighting and the shininess of the shaders, rather than a shift in ov...

By chance have you ever seen an old CGI cartoon called "Reboot"? There's a character in the show named Hexadecimal who did that very thing... The only CGI cartoon I remember when I was growing up was Transformers Beast Wars, so no. I derived the idea from a joke in Naruto. There was this ...

You know, for that Cynthia and Caesar idea, it would be pretty interesting if Cynthia's mask was unable to change expression, so in order to express emotion, she would take off the mask she wears to reveal a new mask that matches her current emotion. In effect, she would have an infinite supply of m...

Something interesting to talk about is the main villain of the game. Perhaps they could be a character that thought they never got the limelight they deserved, and are rewriting the universes story so that he/she reigns supreme. Or it could be that they were someone who was defeated at the end of t...

However, that would not work well with your vision of the shaman/mask acting to be your friend and the croc to be the original bad guy. I'm not saying that the croc would be in charge though, I meant exactly the opposite. Both the mask and the croc would be conspiring against you, and the croc woul...

I'm not sure, I just have trouble imagining it. Maybe it could have bat wings, and in fact, is Laylees father, who was fused with the original servant of the shaman. Laylees father could struggle to take over the servants conciousness for a few seconds, during which he would talk to Laylee. Not too...

I actually hope we don't see any humans in this game. Not as villains or anything else. I really like the Cynthia & Ceasar idea. Good thinking on that one. Except maybe not a crocodile with butterfly wings. I was thinking of a bayou witch-doctor, then I thought of Disney's Princess and the Frog...

Anyway, why should Yooka and Laylee will go on this huge quest and collect many pagies, to defeat the main villain? It's been said on an interview and several articles that the Pagies will expand worlds or unlock new worlds, and that the game will use Storybooks to represent different areas. It may...

Come to think of it, the mask villain I discussed could have been a living breathing shaman once, and after an accident, she got stuck in that mask form. That crocodile-butterfly hybrid may be the result of one of her previous rituals, and their relationship would be characterized as an admiring fan...

I can try guessing the name of the villains, if they happen to be a duo: Cynthia and Caesar (Synthesizer) Would fit antagonists that are capable of magic and otherwise unnatural stuff, and synthesizers contrast against the friendly, folksy sound of ukeleles. On what they would look like, Caesar coul...