Celeste developers cancel follow-up game Earthblade

Earthblade, the next game from the developers of Earthblade Celestehas been cancelled. The fantasy-inspired game has just received its first trailer In late 2022The game would have let you explore a “free-roaming, dynamically loading map,” as Extremely OK Games’ Maddy Thorson said at the time. But the team decided to cancel the match last December after a dispute between the team and due to the pressure of trying to continue CelesteThorson says In a post explaining in detail what happened.

The “disagreement” was between Thorson, Noel Perry (Thorson refers to the two as “we”) and Pedro Medeiros over “their intellectual property rights”. CelesteThorson says. “We eventually reached a solution, but both parties also ultimately agreed that we should go our separate ways,” Medeiros is currently working on resolving the issue. Game called never. “The loss of Pedro was not the only factor in the match being called off, but it prompted us to take a serious look at whether or not the fight to finish the match was worth it.” Earthblade “It was the right way forward,” Thorson says.

the Great success for Celeste He also “put pressure on us to deliver something bigger and better.” Earthblade“That pressure is a big part of the reason it was so stressful to work on,” Thorson says. He added: “Pedro is not to blame for this. In fact, the split with him gave us the clarity to see that we have lost our way, and the opportunity to admit defeat.”

Thorson and Berry want to refocus on “smaller projects” and are “prototyping again” to try to “rediscover game development in a way that’s closer to the way we approached it back in the day.” Celeste or TowerFall’s beginning.”