banjo kazooie spiritual successor kickstarter

The self-described "Rare breed" of developers behind the spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie will be taking their project to Kickstarter.

Playtonic Games, a studio made up of game industry veterans from Rare Ltd., made the announcement that their upcoming game, currently called Project Ukulele, is planned to hit the crowdfunding service in May.

Playtonic's Gavin Price told Eurogamer that the company could make the game "with a few hundred thousand pounds," and added that if the Kickstarter is able to go beyond that goal, "we will scale up the game and add features as fans want from us."

On its Facebook page, Playtonic posted screenshots of Project Ukulele that show lush, colorful environments, begging to be explored. The team showed off the screenshots during a talk at EGX Rezzed 2015. One thing shown in the screen shot during the talk missing from the screens posted to its website is a peak at what seems to be a tease of one of the game's new characters.

In the bottom left of the screen shown during the presentation, a face can be seen in and amongst the foliage. Is this a glimpse of the game's protagonist? Playtonic hasn't revealed any character details, telling Eurogamer that to do so would reveal too much about the gameplay.

News of the Banjo-Kazooie successor first appeared last month, when Playtonic promised it was working on a "real, proper, actual game." In 2012, word first began to spread that a Banjo-Kazooie-type game was in the works