Earthblade, the next game from the developers of celestehas been Cancelled. Fantasy-inspired game gets its first trailer end of 2022And the game will let you explore a “free-roaming, dynamically-loading map,” Extremely OK Games' Maddy Thorson said at the time. But the team decided to cancel the game in December following a team conflict and the pressure of trying to advance. celesteThorson says A post explained in detail what happened,
The “disagreement” was over “IP rights” between Thorson and Noel Berry (Thorson refers to them both as “we”) and Pedro Medeiros. celeste,'' Thorson says. “Eventually we reached a resolution, but in the end both sides also agreed that we should go our separate ways,” and Medeiros is currently working on a game called Absolutely not“Losing Pedro was not the only factor in canceling the game, but it led us to seriously consider whether to fight to finish the game earthblade It was the right way to move forward,” says Thorson.
huge success of celeste It also “put pressure on us to do something bigger and better.” earthbladeAnd that pressure is a big part of why it's become so exhausting to work on,” says Thorson. “Pedro is not to blame for this – in fact the separation with him has given us the clarity to see that we have lost our way, and the opportunity to accept defeat.”
Thorson and Berry want to re-focus on “smaller-scale projects” and “re-prototyping” and “reinventing game development from the way we looked at it.” celeste's Or of towerfall “Begin.”