The authors of Celeste have erased Earthblade – Ruetir

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Almost four years after the announcement, Extremely Ok Games has announced the cancellation of Earthblade. The study that gave birth to Celeste made it known that he wants to return to the development of smaller video games.

As for the reasons that led to the cancellation of the project, these are manifold. In a long statement released late yesterday evening, Maddy Thorson and Noel Berry explained that the first cracks came out when the co-founder and art director Pedro Medeiros left the team due to some differences related to the rights of Celeste ( disagreements subsequently resolved).

“Pedro’s loss was not the only factor that led to the cancellation of the game, but pushed us to seriously reflect whether to fight Earthblade was the right way to follow,” reads the press release. “The project had much to offer but, annoyingly, it was not even as late as you would expect after such a long development process. I believe that if we had continued despite everything, Earthblade would still have been a great game. But would it be worth it? Noel and I also started reflecting on how the game seemed to us for us, working day by day, and we realized that it was a effort for a long time. “

Maddy Thorson and Noel Berry then specified that Pedro Medeiros’s farewell was the spark that allowed a more in -depth evaluation of the project, as well as the possibility of admitting the defeat and serenely erase the project. It is also specified that the fault for the cancellation of Earthblade does not fall on the former art director, but on Thorson and Berry.

As for the future, the team is currently creating prototypes for any new projects following the approach already used in the development of Celeste and Towerfall. “We have given everything ourselves but life goes on,” concludes the team. “We are happy to return to our origins and try the joy of our creative process, and find out where all this will bring us.”

The authors of Celeste have erased Earthblade

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