{"id":3094,"date":"2025-02-03T18:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T18:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/pbj-musical-hits-app-store-march-26\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T18:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T18:05:07","slug":"pbj-musical-hits-app-store-march-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/pbj-musical-hits-app-store-march-26\/","title":{"rendered":"PBJ Musical Hits App Store March 26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>PBJ &#8211; The Musical: A Whimsical Game of Love and Sandwiches<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who hasn&#8217;t sat up at night, pondering what it would be like to play a musical mobile game about peanut butter and jelly, performed in faux Shakespearean verse and animated in the style of Terry Gilliam&#8217;s Monty Python shorts? Well, wonder no more: The absurdist <em>PBJ &#8211; The Musical<\/em> (first previewed at Day of the Devs \u201924) is coming to the App Store on March 26.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Collaboration of Whimsy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kamibox&#8217;s <em>PBJ &#8211; The Musical<\/em> is a collaboration between studio founder Philipp Stollenmayer and English musician and comedian Lorraine Bowen, famous for the delightfully whimsical \u201cThe Crumble Song.\u201d When Stollenmayer saw Lorraine performing on <em>Britain\u2019s Got Talent<\/em> in 2015, getting the Golden Buzzer from David Walliams, he knew he wanted to make something with her. The quirkiness of her songs totally resonated with the vibe of his games, which include <a data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2014-04-01-i-cant-tell-you-why-sometimes-you-die-is-so-great.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sometimes You Die;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sometimes You Die<\/em><\/a> and the thematically similar <em>Bacon &#8211; The Game<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Shakespearean Twist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The game borrows elements of Shakespeare\u2019s <em>Romeo and Juliet<\/em>, blending it with musical theatre (performed mostly by children!) and animated paper landscapes from actual cutouts. Peanut Boy, hailing from a black and white post-war America, steps in for Romeo, while Strawberry Girl, from a colorful and sweet world that raves of royalty, tackles the game\u2019s equivalent of Juliet. You control characters through simple taps and drags as you push and pull cutout figures through the diorama.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Happy Ending<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Bard\u2019s version, this is no tragic play culminating in dual suicides. (Or, at least, not the kind to be sad about.) Kamibox says the game\u2019s happy ending involves \u2014 surprise! \u2014 the creation of the beloved peanut butter and jelly sandwich, which a modern-day Shakespeare may have called \u201cThe brightest heaven of invention\u201d as he packed little Susanna\u2019s lunchbox.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Get Ready for the Trailer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can catch a snippet of the zany <em>PBJ &#8211; The Musical<\/em> in the trailer below. It arrives for iPhone and iPad on March 26 for $4. You can <a data-i13n=\"elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:;elmt:;cpos:4;pos:1\" href=\"https:\/\/shopping.yahoo.com\/rdlw?siteId=us-engadget&amp;pageId=1p-autolink&amp;contentUuid=44a9871f-2ebf-48cd-aa9c-b4ca2a669253&amp;featureId=text-link&amp;custData=eyJzb3VyY2VOYW1lIjoiV2ViLURlc2t0b3AtVmVyaXpvbiIsImxhbmRpbmdVcmwiOiJodHRwczovL2FwcHMuYXBwbGUuY29tL3VzL2FwcC9wYmotdGhlLW11c2ljYWwvaWQ2NDk5MDU1MjA4IiwiY29udGVudFV1aWQiOiI0NGE5ODcxZi0yZWJmLTQ4Y2QtYWE5Yy1iNGNhMmE2NjkyNTMiLCJvcmlnaW5hbFVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vYXBwcy5hcHBsZS5jb20vdXMvYXBwL3Biai10aGUtbXVzaWNhbC9pZDY0OTkwNTUyMDgifQ&amp;signature=AQAAAZi7pcMxmcgRa3aiEk2XDvacNCXsohIVNq-VwceCRNZa&amp;gcReferrer=https%3A%2F%2Fapps.apple.com%2Fus%2Fapp%2Fpbj-the-musical%2Fid6499055208&amp;refurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.engadget.com%2Fgaming%2Fthe-weirdly-whimsical-pbj---the-musical-hits-the-app-store-on-march-26-175725209.html\" class=\"link  rapid-with-clickid etailiffa-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:preorder it now in the App Store;elm:affiliate_link;sellerN:;elmt:;cpos:4;pos:1;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">preorder it now in the App Store<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch the Trailer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If you buy something through a link in this article, we may earn commission.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caas-figure\">\n<div class=\"caas-figure-with-pb\" style=\"max-height: 576px\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"caas-img-container caas-img-loader\" style=\"padding-bottom:60%\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"caas-img caas-lazy has-preview has-width\" alt=\"Promo art for PBJ - The Musical featuring paper cutouts in the style of Monty Python's animations.\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/j805SdeGn6UusS9rtAELRQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU3Ng--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2025-02\/52d9b940-e256-11ef-b5fd-7063ce5c4b4a\" height=\"576\" width=\"960\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Promo art for PBJ - The Musical featuring paper cutouts in the style of Monty Python's animations.\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/j805SdeGn6UusS9rtAELRQ--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU3Ng--\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2025-02\/52d9b940-e256-11ef-b5fd-7063ce5c4b4a\" height=\"576\" width=\"960\" class=\"caas-img has-width\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><figcaption class=\"caption-collapse\"><span class=\"caption-credit\"> Kamibox<\/span><\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/the-weirdly-whimsical-pbj---the-musical-hits-the-app-store-on-march-26-175725209.html?src=rss\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PBJ &#8211; The Musical: A Whimsical Game of Love and Sandwiches Who hasn&#8217;t sat up at night, pondering what it would be like to play a musical mobile game about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[650,90,651,595,63],"class_list":["post-3094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-app-store","tag-gaming","tag-indie","tag-ios","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/02\/171def30-e255-11ef-b1df-5916eb5b1159.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusionmindlabs.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}