Celeste developer cancels follow-up game Earthblade.

Earthblade, the developer’s next game celesteCanceled. The fantasy-inspired game got its first trailer in late 2022, and at the time Extremely OK Games’ Maddy Thorson said the game would have allowed users to “roam freely and explore dynamically loading maps.” However, the team decided to cancel the game in December due to intra-team conflict and pressure to follow up. celesteThorson says in a post detailing what happened.

The “disagreement” was over “IP rights” between Thorson and Noel Berry (Thorson refers to the two as “us”) and Pedro Medeiros. celeste“In the end, we came to an agreement,” says Thorson. “But ultimately both sides agreed that we should go our separate ways.” Medeiros is currently developing a game called ‘Medeiros’. Neverway. “Losing Pedro wasn’t the only factor in canceling the game, but it made us take a serious look at whether we wanted to fight until the end. Earth Blade It was the right way to go,” says Thorson.

the tremendous success of celeste “It also put pressure on us to deliver bigger and better things. Earth BladeAnd that pressure is a big part of why the work is so exhausting,” says Thorson. “Pedro is not responsible for this. In fact, breaking up with him clearly showed that we had lost our way and gave us the opportunity to admit defeat.”

Thorson and Berry want to refocus on “smaller projects” and are “prototyping again” to “reinvent game development in a way closer to how we used to approach it.” Celeste’s or Tower Falls first.”