Who hasn’t sat up at night time, pondering what it will be prefer to play a musical cellular sport about peanut butter and jelly, carried out in fake Shakespearean verse and animated within the fashion of Terry Gilliam’s Monty Python shorts? Effectively, 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 Song.” “When I saw Lorraine performing on Britain’s Got Talent in 2015, getting the Golden Buzzer from David Walliams, I knew I wanted to make something with her,” Stollenmayer stated. “The quirkiness of her songs totally resonated with the vibe of my games,” which embody Generally You Die and the thematically comparable Bacon – The Sport.
PBJ – The Musical borrows components of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, mixing it with musical theatre (carried out largely by kids!) and animated paper landscapes from precise cutouts. (When he isn’t designing deceptively zany video games, Stollenmayer can also be a papercraft artist.) Peanut Boy, hailing from a black and white post-war America, steps in for Romeo, whereas Strawberry Woman, from a colourful and candy world that raves of royalty, tackles the sport’s equal of Juliet. You management characters via easy faucets and drags as you push and pull cutout figures via the diorama.
The developer says that, in contrast to the Bard’s model, that is no tragic play culminating in twin suicides. (Or, a minimum of, not the type to be unhappy about.) Kamibox says the sport’s blissful ending includes — shock! — the creation of the beloved peanut butter and jelly sandwich, which a modern-day Shakespeare might have known as “The brightest heaven of invention” as he packed little Susanna’s lunchbox.
You possibly can 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 possibly can preorder it now within the App Retailer.
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