The indie studio Extremely OK Games has canceled their upcoming title, Earthblade, following internal conflicts and a challenging development process. Designer Maddy Thorson revealed the cancellation due to a fallout with pixel artist Pedro Medeiros over intellectual property issues related to their previous game, Celeste. Although they reached a resolution, both parties decided to part ways. Thorson expressed that the pressure from Celeste's success contributed significantly to the struggle, leading to a real sense of exhaustion within the team as they acknowledged the need to accept defeat and regroup.
"For us on the inside we've had some time to process, grieve, and work toward accepting this, although that process is nonlinear and still ongoing."
"Celeste's success applied pressure on us to deliver something bigger and better with Earthblade, and that pressure is a large part of why working on it has become so exhausting."
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