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Celeste creators’ next game Earthblade won’t be out this year, but studio assure development is “not stagnant”“We had hoped to be announcing a firm release date around now, but it just isn’t in the cards”
“We had hoped to be announcing a firm release date around now, but it just isn’t in the cards”
Image credit:Extremely OK Games
Image credit:Extremely OK Games
It’s been close to three years sinceCelesteandTowerFalldevelopers Extremely OK Gamesrevealed their next project, the similarly gorgeous-looking and sumptuous-sounding 2D explorationplatformerEarthblade. While the studio didn’t give any indication of a release date at the time, we now know not to expect Earthblade until 2025 at the earliest.
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The news came from lead creator and director Maddy Thorson in arecent blog update, which expressed that “we had hoped to be announcing a firm release date around now, but it just isn’t in the cards”.
“We need to face the music: this game ain’t coming out in 2024,” Thorson confirmed. “We know that this will be disappointing for a lot of you and we’re sorry for that.”
Thorson made clear that, despite the delay, development on Earthblade is “not stagnant”, writing: “We are still making progress and we’re still excited to work on it.”
To help the studio with “identifying our vision” and clearing out some of the “problems preventing the game from living up to it”, indie developer - and TowerFall world champion - Kyle Pulver has joined the team as an additional game designer on the project.
Image credit:Extremely OK Games Ltd
We’ve all had to fight through uncertainty together to make Earthblade,” Thorson wrote. “Even if we could go back and do everything “perfectly” from the start the result would be a different game. Despite the setbacks, we all still believe in this project, and more importantly in each other.”
