Extraordinarily OK Video games has cancelled its f...

Extraordinarily OK Video games has cancelled its upcoming recreation Earthblade. The followup to the crew’s beloved indie sensation Celeste was in 2022 and anticipated to launch final 12 months. Maddy Thorson introduced the information on the studio’s web site as we speak.

“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 wrestle for a very long time,” she wrote. “Certain, engaged on one venture for thus lengthy is sure to turn out to be a slog, however this appears like a deeper drawback. Celeste‘s success utilized stress on us to ship one thing larger and higher with Earthblade, and that stress is a big a part of why engaged on it has turn out 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 crew members was not the rationale for cancelling Earthblade. In reality, the entire public dialog between the previous colleagues so far has remained amicable. Thorson provided agency help for Medeiros and his new recreation venture Neverway in her publish: “In the event you have been enthusiastic about Earthblade and offended about its cancelling, Pedro and the Neverway crew aren’t the enemy and anybody who treats them as such is not welcome in any EXOK group.”