Hey there, PlayStation Blog readers! I’m Jon Cortazar, the founder of Relevo Videogames, an indie development studio from Spain. I started designing my first video games back when I was 12 on my old MSX computer. They were some small non-published games done using Basic, but I was already amazed with how those early games were created and the process of creating games.

We started Relevo in 2009, creating several titles both homebrew and professional, and since then, we have been creating some crazy stuff, including new games for vintage 8-bit computers, advergames for third parties and proprietary web and mobile games. We are extremely proud to announce that Baboon!, our very first game for PS Vita, is coming soon! We are in the final testing stage, and are really close to making it available. Isn’t that exciting?

Enough, let’s go straight to the game: Baboon! is something unusual, an original mixture of platform and puzzles, with a deep story full of quirky characters.

While we’ve created rich graphics and music, we’ve also stayed true to some of our favourite retro styles. From cute Japanese-like hand-drawn graphics, to a killer soundtrack directed by Hideyuki Fukasawa (music composer for games such as Super Street Fighter IV, Onimusha and Mobile Suit Gundam: Target in Sight), Baboon! has it all. While gameplay mechanics are easy to learn, they keep evolving as you play and they result in creative, funny and sometimes hardcore puzzling platform action!

During the adventure, the player will be able to shop for items, create different costumes to wear, cook many dishes by combining materials and of course interact with dozens of characters that help you figure out the story or uncover new side quests. What we really love about Baboon! are the many characters and stories, and how the game flow mixes adventure with platform and puzzle genres seamlessly. We hope you’ll love it as much as we do!



Baboon! is going to be available in the European PS Store real soon. It will come in five different languages (English, French, German, Spanish and Italian), so stay tuned for the release date announcement! Also, catch our final trailer for the game, where you’ll be able to watch lots of in-game footage and understand why Baboon! is so unique! Check it out!

Thanks for your support! And, if you’d like to stay up to date on Baboon!, please follow us on Twitter or visit our site, where we’ve been doing a series of posts exploring game mechanics, Baboon!’s colourful cast of characters, and more!