Crash Bandicoot "Wumpa League" Update (Patreon)

Hi everyone!

I promised I would keep everyone in the loop if I had any Crash Bandicoot/Wumpa League news to share and today, I have a small update on the situation. I've recently received an indication that work on the Crash Bandicoot Wumpa League project has resumed in some capacity. The implications of this are not yet fully clear to me, but I would say it's a reasonably good sign that Activision is at the very least experimenting with the material that was made for it last year. 

As I mentioned in my previous podcasts and my video on the subject, it would not surprise me at all if Activision were to take it off the shelf and hand it to a new development team or studio. To my knowledge, the vast majority of Toys For Bob is currently engaged in other projects, but it's possible another Activision affiliated studio such as Beenox could have picked it up. Beenox is one that I see as a possible candidate given their previous assistance on similar projects, such as Crash Team Racing. Having them work on another multiplayer oriented experience would make sense.

I don't want to get anyone's hopes up. This is by no means confirmed to be happening, but it's better than nothing for now. At the very least, I think it's totally possible that Activision allows it to see the light of day. A good amount of the WL was made under Toys For Bob's original team, and from what I've seen of the project, I think it had a lot of potential to succeed - especially in an era of Fortnite and other such games being so popular. However, it's a shame that the exact original team of developers that were overseeing it are still rumoured to have been reassigned. A key member of staff is also rumoured to have departed since then.

On the other hand, I was given an indication that another Toys For Bob project from last year was effectively cancelled. I'll have more details on that in the future - the same goes for Wumpa League regardless of its fate. If it does release, I will be able to discuss what I've seen of its original version and how that might compare to a potential new version of it. It would be interesting to see to what extent they deviate or stick to that original plan if a new group of developers is working on it. If it doesn't come out, then I will still work towards a video one day going fully into detail on it and hopefully showing you what was planned. In my humble opinion, it looked very ambitious and interesting.

In the near future, I do plan to go over some more Crash/Wumpa League info and news, so stay tuned for that! I'd like to do another video on it when I get a chance, but hopefully this will suffice as a quick update for now.