According to Gregg Mayles, Banjo was originally going to be wearing a hat and snows. It would take three hits from enemies to kill Banjo. First one would cost Banjo his cap, second his shoes, and third would do him in for good. Makes you kind of wonder how the game would have turned out … More Picture and info of early Banjo design

Glitter Gulch Mine didn’t start out as a Banjo-Tooie level, Gregg Mayles showed off some of the original designs on Twitter today.

Ex-Rare artist and father of Mumbo-Jumbo, Ed Bryan, posted this vine of some of his concept art of Gruntilda’s machine for Banjo-Kazooie. It’s been a great too see all this early work coming to light to celebrate Rare’s 30th.  Hope there is more to come.