PLAYTONIC GAMES
Founded 2014a
Employees 30
Key staff Gavin Price (studio head), Steve Mayles (character art director), Jens Restemeier (technical director/software engineer), Chris Sutherland (project director/software engineer),
Selected softography Yooka-Laylee, Yooka-Laylee And The Impossible Lair
Current projects Demon Turf, BPM: Bullets Per Minute, A Little Golf Journey
Gavin Price wants to make it clear that Playtonic the developer isn’t going anywhere. The studio has, in fact, some very grand plans, about which we’re sworn to secrecy – suffice it to say, it’s currently working on three games, though we won’t be seeing them for a while. In the meantime, Playtonic the publisher will be keeping itself busy: its new Playtonic Friends label has announced its first raft of games, and Price tells us there will be more to come.
In some ways, it’s a strange time to establish a new part of your business. How has COVID-19 affected Playtonic’s plans? “It’s hard to tell,” Price says. “You can’t reload your quicksave from before it happened and try playing it another way. But in some ways, I think it’s actually helped us. We always said, if
