Who hasn’t sat up at evening, pondering what it could be wish to play a musical cellular recreation about peanut butter and jelly, carried out in fake Shakespearean verse and animated within the model of Terry Gilliam’s Monty Python shorts? Properly, marvel no extra: The absurdist PBJ – The Musical (first previewed at Day of the Devs ’24) heads to the App Retailer on March 26.
Kamibox’s PBJ – The Musical is a collaboration between studio founder Philipp Stollenmayer and English musician and comic Lorraine Bowen, well-known for the delightfully whimsical “The Crumble Tune.” “After I noticed Lorraine acting on Britain’s Received Expertise in 2015, getting the Golden Buzzer from David Walliams, I knew I needed to make one thing along with her,” Stollenmayer stated. “The quirkiness of her songs completely resonated with the vibe of my video games,” which embody Sometimes You Die and the thematically related Bacon – The Sport.
PBJ – The Musical borrows parts of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, mixing it with musical theatre (carried out principally by youngsters!) and animated paper landscapes from precise cutouts. (When he isn’t designing deceptively zany video games, Stollenmayer can be a papercraft artist.) Peanut Boy, hailing from a black and white post-war America, steps in for Romeo, whereas Strawberry Lady, from a colourful and candy world that raves of royalty, tackles the sport’s equal of Juliet. You management characters by way of easy faucets and drags as you push and pull cutout figures by way of the diorama.
The developer says that, in contrast to the Bard’s model, that is no tragic play culminating in twin suicides. (Or, at the very least, not the sort to be unhappy about.) Kamibox says the sport’s joyful ending includes — shock! — the creation of the beloved peanut butter and jelly sandwich, which a modern-day Shakespeare could have known as “The brightest heaven of invention” as he packed little Susanna’s lunchbox.
You’ll be able to catch a snippet of the zany PBJ – The Musical within the trailer beneath. It arrives for iPhone and iPad on March 26 for $4. You’ll be able to preorder it now within the App Retailer.
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