The weirdly whimsical PBJ - The Musical hits the App Retailer on March 26

Who hasn’t sat up at night time, pondering what it will be wish to play a musical cellular sport about peanut butter and jelly, carried out in fake Shakespearean verse and animated within the model 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.” “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 together with her,” Stollenmayer mentioned. “The quirkiness of her songs completely resonated with the vibe of my video games,” which embody Sometimes You Die and the thematically comparable Bacon – The Sport.

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PBJ – The Musical borrows parts of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, mixing it with musical theatre (carried out principally by kids!) 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 Woman, from a colourful and candy world that raves of royalty, tackles the sport’s equal of Juliet. You management characters by easy faucets and drags as you push and pull cutout figures by the diorama.

The developer says that, not like the Bard’s model, that is no tragic play culminating in twin suicides. (Or, at the very least, not the type to be unhappy about.) Kamibox says the sport’s comfortable ending entails — 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 in the App Store.

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