Collo

Insight from a developer's point of view:

I wouldn't expect a respected company like WayForward to use Google Translate for this purpose. This actually happens quite often, also happened a few times with our games, when a developer only hands an Excel sheet to a translation company. They don't play the game, and the sheet doesn't come with the context of what's meant with the word.

@techdude we only publish our own games at this point.

@SKTTR we’re talking about a physical release yes, but nothing is set in stone yet. Would be nice to have.

As for RUSH and EDGE, there are currently no plans for that, sorry!

@TheGreenMiner13 Toki Tori 2 was our attempt at trying something new with Toki Tori

@KoopaTheGamer yes, it’s not going to happen anytime soon. The drive to spend years on a game is gone.

If anyone has any questions, I’m right here!

@Alucard83 i think if we zoomed out more the controls would become too fiddly.

@wyzworld76 the game has pointer controls too. It works quite well, but is definitely not as fast.

@Rafke can I ask why you’re not convinced it’s different? I tried to explain in the interview that it’s a different experience. But I seem to have failed in your case.

Thanks for all the messages guys and girls! We read everything

@Einherjar

I don't think you got all your facts straight.

I don't think we ever said the Wii U version was the best selling.

Toki Tori 2+ costs the same and has the same content on all platforms.

'Openly presented as the least complete version?' It was given to Wii U fans first, then updated with whatever we added to later releases to make it the same experience on all platforms, for free...

We didn't just say 'no demand', we wrote a comprehensive blogpost on all the reasoning behind it.

http://twotribes.com/message/wii-u-level-editor-on-ice/

Let me know if you have any questions.

Time for some clarifications guys

Percentage wise, the eShop generates more income for our little studio when looking at all games combined. This does not make Toki Tori 2+ a success all of a sudden, it's just a comparison to the other shops.

When we still had 12 people, making an editor feature for a game that underperformed and didn't recoup even half of the costs does not make sense and could've gotten us in deeper problems than we now had to face.

We're more cautious at promising things now, so we have learned from all of this

@markybbop

Actually, we'll probably do the Wii U version ourselves and outsource the other platforms.

I am, don't worry.

Thanks for the kind words guys! Let's make this a success shall we?

For the color blind people here: Co-Founder Martijn Reuvers is also color blind and he has approved the game for release.

I know not every colorblind person sees the same, but he has the most common one

It's 30fps. It's a good fit because EDGE is a slow moving game overall.

We don't know the pricing yet. Will be revealed later on!

Yup! One of the founders

It runs at a steady framerate and has anti-aliasing in both 2D and 3D modes, making it look very slick!

It is coming to 3DS soon! We've made it so that not only the depth changes, but also the field of view when you alter the slider. It works like a charm!

Any questions about EDGE anyone?

Ask away!

@rjejr Check www.twotribes.com for the details!

@WiiLovePiece Sticks and buttons are much more precise. Even if we did implement it, i don't think the pressure sensitive touch screen on Wii U works well enough for a virtual dpad control.

Nintenjoe64: Nope, stick or dpad!

Everyone else: any questions?

Thanks for getting back to me!

The solution here is to group the frogs by whistling them onto the same location, giving you enough time to stomp that one berrybug onto the ceiling. No timing required whatsoever.

cyrus_zuo: that is never the intended solution. Can you remember where this was?

Timp29: Can you tell me where you got stuck?

Thanks!

Collin

@Hejiru

You've been paying attention! We like that

In my (Collin's) mind the porcupine is still a wussy who's easily scared. I think Niels 't Hooft wrote these little stories and he's not on the day-to-day design team. So I think he simply interpreted what ended up being in the game.

We did tone down some of his behavior (such as being afraid of Toki Tori since he was frozen by him in part 1 so many times) to make it easier to understand for the player.

Anyway, he has spikes and mows the lawn when scared

Sorry guys! We'll be hanging out here, should there be any questions.

Thanks for the feedback. I hope that's it

@Sandman

Thanks for the feedback. What specifically gives you the feeling the bird and Toki Tori aren't using the same art style?

As for the music, it will be made by Sonic Picnic again yes, but we're taking a very different approach this time around. See http://twotribes.com/message/toki-tori-2-update-23/ for the details!

@RyanO Depends on which part you eat. His feet taste more like Duck for some reason.

As usual, we'll be here to answer any questions you may have about Toki Tori 2!

Let it rip

To be clear: I don't think there's anything wrong with family friendly gaming. You can take one look at Toki Tori 2 for proof

Also, kind of interesting how a tweet mistake can become a story like this. It's not like my opinion is so important or shocking, but it still seems to be picked up.

What's this about Brutus the Chicken? Should Toki Tori be afraid?

@rjejr It's not in the video and it won't be a separate purchase!

If anyone else has any questions, go ahead! We'll be here all day!

@Brick we don't know ourselves

Sorry GeminiSaint, missed your questions!

The game has something of a storyline with animated cutscenes that went missing when we made the WiiWare version. It also has different music and some other small changes.

@TheDreamingHawk

For Game Boy Color we only made Toki Tori. The device was only actively supporter for a year or two before GBA came out, and that's about the time we took to finish it

Hi! @3dsiscool

It's coming along nicely, expect more details soon! As for working with Nintendo, you'll have to ask them. We're simply a developer making Nintendo games

Any other questions people?

@TheDreamingHawk

That'll probably be a while longer, we had to arrange some things with the ESRB and I believe there are some translations left to be done. Should not be too long hopefully.

NEXT!!!

@ Luigi_is_better

The WiiWare version content was updated and remixed a little, but the core is basically identical.

It also has a totally unnecessary time limit and a jump button that only hops up single tiles. But that's because we didn't know what we were doing at the time

Any others?

Hi Everyone,

Collin from Two Tribes here. Let me know if you have any questions regarding Toki Tori for 3DS!

Looking foward to hearing what you think of the release next week!

Collin

Hope you like my Toki Tori one

We'll be posting a blog about the improvements we've made sometime next week. Keep an eye out on www.twotribes.com and of course Nintendo Life for the interview.

Concerning the price, it's probably going to be 200 points. It fits the product nicely, so I think we'll end up with that.

Nothing to report on this front Mange. We'll let you know when we know

@HadesGigas

At least half of the levels are new, and a bunch have been significantly altered to take advantage of the new tech and gameplay options made available by the addition of warp points and such.

@y2josh

The trailer is right, there are over 70 levels!

@objection blaster

If you like more content, better presentation, better controls, a multiplayer rubiks and online leaderboards, I'd go for RUSH

@bbpoy

The problem with rubiks world was that we tried to create too many games at once. RUSH is the fully developed, tweaked, expanded and polished bigger brother of one of that games.

We think RUSH is a great stand alone game, and this review seems to agree! So why not use this info to make your decision, instead?