Extraordinarily OK Video games has cancelled its upcoming sport Earthblade. The followup to the group's beloved indie sensation Celeste was introduced in 2022 and anticipated to launch final 12 months. Maddy Thorson introduced the information on the studio's web site immediately.
"Noel and I…started to mirror on how the sport has felt for us to work on day-to-day, and realized that it has been a battle for a very long time," she wrote. "Positive, engaged on one challenge for thus lengthy is certain to grow to be a slog, however this looks like a deeper drawback. Celeste's success utilized stress on us to ship one thing greater and higher with Earthblade, and that stress is a big a part of why engaged on it has grow to be so exhausting."
The studio, led by Thorson and Noel Berry, parted methods with EXOK co-founder Pedro Medeiros in November. Nevertheless, Thorson was clear in her message that the rift between group members was not the rationale for cancelling Earthblade. In actual fact, the entire public dialog between the previous colleagues to this point has remained amicable. Thorson supplied agency assist for Medeiros and his new sport challenge Neverway in her put up: "When you have been enthusiastic about Earthblade and indignant about its cancelling, Pedro and the Neverway group aren't the enemy and anybody who treats them as such isn't welcome in any EXOK neighborhood."
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