DKC Atlas Forum

I have a vision, a project I would like to breathe to life.

I want to make a new Donkey Kong Country, one that takes the greatest strengths of the original trilogy to create an entirely new experience that also encompasses the original. I am fully willing to do this on my own time as a fan project, I would be equally willing to go on a payroll to make this game for your companies profit. I don't care about the technicalities, I just want to make this vision real.

And here it is. Starring Donkey Kong, with Dixie as co-star, out to take over new banana hoards. We don't ask why bad guys have banana hoards, nor do we ask how they got there, no, what we will ask is: "How the hell do I beat that?"

The levels will range from cheery beaches to haunted mines. Sometimes even haunted beaches and cheery mines. The variety of levels in the DKC trilogy cover almost every feasable combination of enviroments. And new ones like a moonlight stroll in the snow, flooded ruins, burning brambles and nearly anything else that isn't already done would be a cinch with the same resources. New level themes ideas and challenges could easily be made with existing graphics.

The game will use the engine and physics from Donkey Kong Country 2. As well as the awesome prize barrel and victory riff. Well, Dixie will riff, DK will do something different, of course. Each level will have the 1 DK coin, kremcoin bonuses that can be collected once per level, and silver banana coins that respawn and will serve many uses. There will also be a wide variety of 'unlisted' secrets in the style of Donkey Kong Country ane even better, secondary exits that unlock different paths and levels. The world map will play very much like DKC3, except there will be no little use of vehicles aside from Funky's Plane (from DKC).

In addition to the game itself would be access to the worlds of DKC 1, 2 & 3, wherein there will be additional hidden tokens to access more features in the main game. Simply by giving Donkey the splash Jump and putting his mug on the Diddy Blast Barrels would make all three completable. And having a 'classical' option to use the original cast would not be out of place either.

It would be a compilation, homage and sequel all in one. Not only to Donkey Kong Country itself, but to the entire era of 2d patformers that climaxed in that iteration of patforming perfection.




Donkey Kong Country (all of them) look and play fantastic. Better graphics only takes focus, both in game and in development, from the game itself. The engine was genius, and there is a huge vacuum in the 2d platform genre. And frankly, Donkey Kong Country Returns is only a marketing success because in the last fifteen years people have forgotten how to play a platformer. People want what I am proposing, and people would love whoever gave it to them, with a pricetag or not.

The only animations required would be a victory dance for Donkey and a 'carrying buddy' walk/pose. And I could easily see Dk throwing down a boombox, putting on shades and crossing his arms as diddy's rap is played. And all the graphics that would be needed for that action already exist in DKC. Point is, nothing really new need be made to create the game I envisioning. I have given it much thought, and with the tools, time and dedication a single person could do what I envision with the resources already made... if we allow collaboration to take place.

Now, I know nothing about the legal mumbo jumbo (and care even less) surrounding propriety, ownership or any of that otehr nonsense. I am sending this letter to you because if anyone would actually have the data/tools I seek it would be you. I will make whatever concessions/compromises are required to make this project happen, with the exception of surrenduring creative control.

So please, if you can, release these tools/resources to me (or the community at large), and if for some reason you cannot, please tell me what I would have to do, or who I should appeal to to get them.

Stormy Fairweather