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For fans of the 2D platformer Celeste, you’ll be sad to hear that the developers’ next game, Earthblade, has been canceled.
In a blog post titled “Final Earthblade Update,” Extremely OK Games announced that its follow-up to the award-winning game Celeste has been canceled. In the post, EXOK Director of R&D Maddy Thorson detailed the reasoning behind the decision, and what’s next for the studio.
“Lat last month, Noel [Berry, EXOK Computer Programmer] made the difficult decision to cancel Earthblade… We made this decision in December and felt it best to wait until now to announce it.”
Thorson’s post details that at some point last year a dispute arose between Thorson and Berry and Earthblade art director Pedro Medeiros over the IP rights of Celeste. Thorson declined to detail the dispute other than to say that there was a resolution reached and Medeiros parted ways with the team and is now developing a separate game titled Neverway.
However, this dispute gave Thorson and Berry a chance to examine where they were at with Earthblade and discovered that the project was not coming along the way they had hoped. “Noel and I also began to reflect on how the game has felt for us
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