“What would Shakespeare write if he were alive today?” Philipp Stollenmayer asked viewers on this week’s Day of the Devs 2024: Game Awards stream. Stollenmayer said Shakespeare wrote about the invention of the peanut butter and jelly sandwich from the perspective of a rebellious strawberry and a disillusioned peanut. Also, it will be a musical. Oh, and it’s going to take the form of an interactive scrapbook featuring kids as the main voice actors. clearly.
PBJ — The Musical, the latest mobile game from Stollenmayer’s studio Kamibox, offers a completely unique approach to interactive play. PBJ is a side-scrolling narrative adventure constructed from a real-life paper collage of images cut from vintage cookbooks and stitched together in stop motion. The vibe is a modern Monty Python-meets-Julia Child mix, with a bit of theater nerdiness thrown in for balance.
In PBJ, players can push, pull, and drag anything to change the story. It includes adorable food-based interpretations of Shakespeare’s quotes and lots of songs. On the musical front, Britain’s Got Talent semi-finalist Lorraine Bowen has written and performed all of PBJ’s songs, and they all seem to have her signature playful, quirky vibe. Each of the 10 stages also has an unlockable remix.
Mixing mediums is like Stollenmeyer’s work. He is a papercraft artist turned game designer, and many of his projects blend the two fields in some way. Under Kamibox, he created mobile games Something You Die, Bacon — The Game, Song of Bloom, and 20 other titles, and since the studio was founded in 2012, he has won an Apple Design Award, an Independent It has received Games Festival nominations and other accolades. .
PBJ is scheduled for release in early 2025 and will be available for iPhone and iPad.
