Conker’s Coming to Xbox One’s Project Spark…Sort Of

<p>It looks lie fans are getting another shot at playing Rare&&num;8217&semi;s furry misfit&comma; Conker&comma; but hardly via the return anyone expected&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Developed by Project Spark creator Team Dakota on the Project Spark engine&comma; <em>Conker&&num;8217&semi;s Big Reunion<&sol;em> will follow Conker&&num;8217&semi;s continuing exploits in an ongoing episodic series a decade after his N64 crass cult-classic&comma; <em>Conker&&num;8217&semi;s Bad Fur Day<&sol;em>&period; According to their latest interview with IGN&comma; the development team wants to ensure that Conker&&num;8217&semi;s return is faithful to the &&num;8220&semi;Conker spirit&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;This meant self-deprecating humor&comma; jokes referencing the original&comma; game jokes and parodies&comma; partying&comma; some adult language&comma; acting quite silly&comma; a bit of violence&comma; and a lot of poo of course&comma;&&num;8221&semi; <em>Conker&&num;8217&semi;s Big Reunion<&sol;em> creative director Henry Sterchi said&period; &&num;8220&semi;Conker has always had a wit to the humor and we focused a bit more on the layered joke approach this go around&comma; but there’s definitely some shock value moments and a bunch of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I can’t believe he&sol;they just said that” types of laughs&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On top of its naturally unnatural humor&comma; actor Chris Seavor will be back back to voice the squirrel with a &&num;8216&semi;tude while Team Dakota&&num;8217&semi;s reportedly working closely with original Conker developer&comma; Rare&comma; on the game&&num;8217&semi;s creation&period; <em>Project Spark<&sol;em> initially introduced the world to Conker&&num;8217&semi;s return <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;rares-iconic-character-conker-appears-project-spark-trailer&sol;">this past E3<&sol;a>&comma; which Sterchi says was instrumental in spurring Rare&&num;8217&semi;s involvement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;When the opportunity for Conker came up&comma; we reached out &lbrack;to Rare&rsqb; and shared our general plan to make sure we were on the right track&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Sterchi continued&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p> &&num;8220&semi;As we got near E3&comma; we knew we needed the original Conker&comma; so we reached out to Chris Seavor&comma; who was no longer at Rare&period; When we shared the plan and showed him what Project Spark was&comma; he was excited to bring in Conker&period; Rare gave us all the original assets we’ve needed&comma; including the original music&period; Pretty much everything from tone&comma; to scenarios&comma; to music&comma; etc&period; Rare has given feedback and help all along the way&comma; it’s been tremendous&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The &&num;8220&semi;Conker Creation Pack&&num;8221&semi; will give <em>Project Spark<&sol;em> players roughly 300 Conker assets&comma; including characters&comma; props&comma; terrain materials&comma; effects&comma; all of them taking nods from <em>Conker’s Bad Fur Day<&sol;em>&period; Some remastered original music and audio files will also be up for grabs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sterchi commented further on the idea of bringing Conker back&comma; saying that it was something of a labor of love&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;The team was really excited because there was a lot of love and nostalgia around Conker &lpar;funny enough&comma; one of our designers was even a tester on the original way back&rpar;&period; Conker broke so much new ground back in the day&period; From breaking the 4th wall&comma; to the quality and richness of the characters and world they created&comma; to the humor&comma; and what was one of &&num;8211&semi; if not the first real &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;reluctant hero&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><em>The Project Spark<&sol;em> marketplace will have Conker play and create experiences available individually and or bundled as digital downloads this <strong>April 23rd<&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We&&num;8217&semi;ve been dreaming of a Conker game <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;lost-series-microsoft&sol;">for a while now<&sol;a> ourselves&comma; but we&&num;8217&semi;re curious&colon; do you want to see Conker in <em>Project Spark<&sol;em> or are you waiting for a more traditional experience&quest; Let us know in the comments below as we wait for further word on Conker&&num;8217&semi;s future&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Via<&sol;strong> <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;ign&period;com&sol;articles&sol;2015&sol;03&sol;19&sol;new-conker-game-coming-to-project-spark-april-23">IGN<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;