Goodbye Volcano High

• Title — Goodbye Volcano High • Developer — KO_OP • Publisher — KO_OP • Director — * Kyle McKernan • Saleem Dabbous • Designer — * Kyle McKernan • Samuel Boucher • Programmer — * Hope Erin Phillips • Jacob Blommestein • Artist — * Ellen Alsop • Lucie Viatge • Writer — * Jenna Yow • Kyle McKernan • Composer — Omar Dabbous • Engine — Unity • Platforms — * PlayStation 4 • PlayStation 5 • Windows • Released — 29 August 2023 • Genre — Narrative adventure • Modes — Single-player

The player selects dialogue choices and controls rhythm minigames during performances by the band Worm Drama.

Set in a world of anthropomorphic dinosaurs, the game centers on the members of the band Worm Drama; the non-binary lead vocalist Fang the pterodactyl (Lachlan Watson), guitarist Trish the triceratops (Ozioma Akagha) and drummer Reed the velociraptor (Mark Whitten), alongside the school's student council president Naomi the parasaurolophus (Allegra Clark) and Fang's brother Naser (Abe Bueno-Jallad), - as they venture through the highs and lows of their final year as Volcano High seniors with graduation looming over the horizon while coming to terms with their own impending extinction from an asteroid.

The game was initially announced during PlayStation's "Future of Gaming" online presentation on 11 June 2020, with a release window of 2021. In August 2021, KO_OP announced a delay of Goodbye Volcano High release until sometime in 2022. The developers wanted to avoid crunch related to the COVID-19 pandemic, and had already brought in a new writing team from Sweet Baby Inc. in June 2020 to reboot the game's entire narrative direction. The new narrative direction was largely inspired by the experiences of high school seniors graduating during the pandemic. In November 2022, the game was delayed to 2023. A new gameplay trailer premiered during a PlayStation "State of Play" presentation on 23 February 2023, announcing a release date of 15 June but was delayed to 29 August. Prior to release, demos of the game were showcased at the 2023 Game Developers Conference as part of the "Day of the Devs" selection, PAX East 2023, and at the 2023 Tribeca Festival as part of the "Games & Immersive Experience" selection.

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