Astro Bot’s development team at Team Asobi talks about the process of working on the platformer in the first instalment of a new behind-the-scenes series of videos.

We haven’t seen an awful lot of platformers from Sony in recent years, so it’s no surprise that genre purists are as excited as they are to get their hands on Astro Bot. The upcoming platformer has looked increasingly promising with each of its showings in recent weeks and months, and ahead of its imminent launch, Sony and developer Team Asobi have kicked off a new behind-the-scenes series of dev diaries covering the game’s development.

The first video focuses on crafting the perfectly tuned gameplay and movement options for a platformer, with members of the development team speaking about the flow and smoothness of movement, the rhythm of player actions during moment-to-moment gameplay, and the responsiveness of actions. Check out the video below, and stay tuned for four more behind-the-scenes videos in the pipeline.

Astro Bot launches for PS5 on September 6.