{"id":650453,"date":"2025-01-23T02:30:26","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T23:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/earthblade-canceled\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T02:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T23:30:26","slug":"earthblade-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/earthblade-canceled\/","title":{"rendered":"#\r\n Earthblade canceled"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hey everyone, I\u2019ve got some sad news<\/a> today to ring in 2025. Late last month, Noel and I made the difficult decision to cancel Earthblade<\/em>. Yes, we are opening the year with a huge, heartbreaking, and yet relieving failure. I want to outline in this post what lead to this decision, and what it means for the future of [Extremely OK Game<\/a>s].<\/p>\n

Before I get into it however, I want to acknowledge that this news will likely come as a shock to fans who have been eagerly anticipating the game. We made this decision in December and felt it best to wait until now to announce it. For us on the inside we\u2019ve had some time to process, grieve, and work toward accepting this, although that process is nonlinear and still ongoing. For those only reading this now who might be emotionally invested in this project, we\u2019re sorry to disapp<\/a>oint you.<\/p>\n

What Happened<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earlier this year, a fracture began forming in the team. Specifically, this was between us (Noel & I) and Pedro, a founding member of [Extremely OK Games], longtime friend & collaborator, and art director of Earthblade<\/em> and pixel \/ user interface artist on Celeste<\/em> and TowerFall<\/em>. The conflict centered around a disagreement about the IP rights of Celeste<\/em>, which we won\u2019t be detailing publicly\u2014this was obviously a very difficult and heartbreaking process. We eventually reached a resolution, but both parties also agreed in the end that we should go our separate ways. Pedro is now working on his game Neverway, which you should check out\u2014we\u2019ve played it and it\u2019s very promising.<\/p>\n

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Losing Pedro wasn\u2019t the only factor in cancelling the game, but it did prompt us to take a serious look at whether fighting through to finish Earthblade<\/em> was the right path forward. The project had a lot going for it but, frustratingly, it was also not as far along as one would expect after such a protracted development process. I do believe that if we soldiered on despite it all, that Earthblade could still be a great game.<\/p>\n

But would it be worth the pain? Noel and I also began to reflect on how the game has felt for us to work on day-to-day, and realized that it has been a struggle for a long time. Sure, working on one project for so long is bound to become a slog, but this feels like a deeper problem. Celeste<\/em>\u2018s success applied pressure on us to deliver something bigger and better with Earthblade<\/em>, and that pressure is a large part of why working on it has become so exhausting. Pedro isn\u2019t to blame for this\u2014in fact the split with him has given us the clarity to see that we have lost our way, and the opportunity to admit defeat. I feel many ways about it, but one big feeling is undoubtedly relief.<\/p>\n

Because this is the internet, I want to be unequivocal here that the decision and responsibility for cancelling Earthblade<\/em> rests entirely with me and Noel. If you were excited about Earthblade<\/em> and angry about its cancelling, Pedro and the Neverway team aren\u2019t the enemy and anyone who treats them as such isn\u2019t welcome in any [Extremely OK Games] community.<\/p>\n

What Next<\/strong><\/p>\n

While this has shaken out other members of the team have moved on as well. Noel & I now want to take all of the (many!) lessons we\u2019ve learned from Earthblade<\/em>, wipe the slate clean, and refocus ourselves back to smaller-scale projects. We\u2019re prototyping again and exploring at our own pace, and trying to rediscover game development in a manner closer to how we approached it at Celeste<\/em>\u2018s or TowerFall\u2019s inception. We still, of course, hope to collaborate with Amora, Kyle, Chevy, Lena, and Power-Up Audio again in the future. Scaling the core team up post-Celeste<\/em> has ultimately been a failure, and that\u2019s okay. We gave it all we\u2019ve got, and life goes on. We are happy to return to our roots and reclaim some joy in our creative process, and see where that takes us.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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