>>700970051
>troon out
>die
What a shock

>>700970051
Damn. What percentage of Earthblade do you think was finished before they couldn't hang on anymore?

>>700970051
Any reason given or is this a Phil Fish kind of tantrum?

>>700970051
ACK

Every time someone mentions Celeste I remember that my sister dated a speedrunner but he trooned out shortly after he started running Celeste so they broke up

>>700970051
qrd?

>>700970051
What's with all this vaginal imagery?

>>700970051
wow that sucks. I was actually kind of looking forward to this one

>>700970051
>this is whats become of the nigger who originally made the Jumper series
How?

>Earlier this year, a fracture began forming in the team. Specifically, this was between us (Noel & I) and Pedro, a founding member of EXOK, longtime friend & collaborator, and art director of Earthblade and pixel/ui artist on Celeste and TowerFall. The conflict centered around a disagreement about the IP rights of Celeste, which we won't be detailing publicly - this was obviously a very difficult and heartbreaking process. We eventually reached a resolution, but both parties also agreed in the end that we should go our separate ways.

>Because this is the internet, I want to be unequivocal here that the decision and responsibility for cancelling Earthblade rests entirely with me and Noel. If you were excited about Earthblade and angry about its cancelling, Pedro and the Neverway team aren't the enemy and anyone who treats them as such isn't welcome in any EXOK community.

>I do believe that if we soldiered on despite it all, that Earthblade could still be a great game.

But would it be worth the pain? Noel and I also began to reflect on how the game has felt for us to work on day-to-day, and realized that it has been a struggle for a long time. Sure, working on one project for so long is bound to become a slog, but this feels like a deeper problem.

guy fucks up your development pipeline with some made up complaints that are easily resolved, you are too much of a coward to hold him accountable for it, you refuse to use your infinite money from Celeste to continue development because it's too depressing to work on your game, whatever dude

maybe stick to the shit you work on instead of bitching out

>>700970159
team/former team member infighting and ip shit.

>>700970051
nothing of vale was lost

>>700970124
Probably 42% at least.

>>700970362
I.e. Pedro and Neverway are definitely the enemy.

>>700970362
trannoid ego monsters cannot go past emotional issues and self destruct, a story as old as time.

>>700970309
It's a fucking eye. Do you also call the eye of sauron a cunt?

>>700970362
>Art director kills project with IP rights bullshit
A story as old as time

>>700970631
No, but then again Lord of the RIngs wasn't made by a mindbroken porn addicted tranny

>>700970362
I hate this pseudo-cancel bullshit
>Do not go and harass these people BUT the responsible ones are X and Y and Z...
We know what the fuck you're doing, you know what the consequences of what you're posting are, you're just washing your hands

>>700970051
real shame, I've had it on my wishlist to keep an eye on it for a while

>>700970824
You're trans?

>>700970631
That schizo has never seen a cat's eyes because you usually gotta go outside to see them like that

>>700970051
TRUMP DID THIS

>>700971046
you're out of your mind, these people clearly mean what they're saying but any fault at the hand of Sir Pedro is being discarded because they want to take the blame on themselves, which is wrong

huge shame because this game looked good but there's zero chance i'm ever checking out that guy's games now

>>700971119
>He fell for the sob story and false moral grandstanding
lmao

>>700970631
Sauron himself is pretty cuntish, yeah.

>>700971271
i honestly don't care about your virtue signaling shit i just posted the contents of the article for people to read without a bunch of clicks

i like video games and this one being canceled sucks ass especially when it's for such retarded reasons

>>700970362
A shame really, they were tranny devs but their output was decent. Separate art from artist and all that

>>700971349
>there's zero chance i'm ever checking out that guy's games now
Again, you're retarded.

>>700971409
get over it pedro

>>700970362
>infinite money from Celeste
nope.

>>700970362
my takeaway from this is that Pedro and the Neverway team are the enemy and should be treated as such

>>700970362
Killing your project in a dramatic meltdown might be woman-like behavior, but it doesn't make you a woman, Matt.

>>700971485
Hi Pedro!

>>700970362
Can’t they just speak normally instead of vague posting and making the whole situation worse?

Is Noel a girl or a boy

>>700972370
ftm

>>700970361
Jumper with Hayden Christensen?

>lose a single artist
>explode
just get some one else, it's only pixel art.

>>700970362
>fuck you pay me
>nooooooo
Idiots.

>>700972308
I don't see how they could've been clearer without getting into the specifics of the dispute.

>>700972621
They can't they have money a lot of money. People know this.

>>700970631
>Turns the elvish fucktoys into literal orcs
Cunt move, the crusade against conventional beauty standards makes me think Sauron may be a fat californian chick with purple hair.

>>700970631
That Sauron guy did seem like a bit of a cunt

>>700970631
we gotta drop the ring into sauron's pussy

>>700970362

Do these people not have such things defined by contract?
Even indie games are made by a company that handles funds, such a company would surely have standard contracts for anyone working in any capacity since it's pretty much the law.

And those contracts would delineate who is in charge of what and who retains rights for the work etc etc..

>>700970051
At least they have the balls to actually cancel something instead of just going "any day bro, it exists we promise".

no way, are you serious, I almost checked if it was April 1st.
oh my god man...videogames really are getting worse...

>>700970309
The word you're looking for is "yonic", also you are a retard.

>>700970240
tell your sister she is transphobic

>>700970404
I read it as they attempted to scale up, but turns out they don't know anything about managing people and will go back to making games with extremely limited scope they don't have to deal with other people.

>>700970362
The more and more I read up on bullshit like this, the more and more I understand the videogames industry as a whole. Indie devs are literal retarded children that are completely unable to engage with the real world, and when they're validated through success, it only facilitates that.

I just saw some kickstarter for some dumbass game called heart forth some bullshit where a dude raised 270k, and he hasn't released the game in TEN FUCKING years. What the fuck is he doing with the money?

AAA may not be perfect, but atleast they'll eventually release something even if the devs are completely fucking retarded and don't know what the fuck they're doing.

Same with Silksong, if they were riding on publisher money, and all the proceeds didn't go straight to them, they wouldn't have the luxury of ENDLESSLY ADDING ONTO A 2D FUCKING GAME FOR WHAT? 6 FUCKING YEARS? we're just lucky no kickstarter scam Is involved...arguably.

Then there's this bullshit. This is why retarded fucking creators probably generally don't own IP rights. I never realized it, but it's OBVIOUS some shit head art director would try and claim way more ownership of the IP than he deserves. Videogames are such a stupid shit fucking medium. It does so much at the same time that it almost feels like it can't have any identity of its own.

YOURE A COG IN THE MACHINE. YOU DID NOT CREATE CELESTES SUCCESS FUCK OFF, I WOULD HAVE PLAYED THE SHIT FUCKING GAME WHETHER IT WAS YOUR STYLE OF PIXEL ART OR NOT. I DO NOT GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOUR PETTY SQUABBLES KILL YOURSELF.

Indie's are the biggest proof that videogames won't get better, you'd think, they should be the most creatively free, the most properly positioned to fulfill their potential, but indie games actually instead entails: Poor communication, Entitlement, and a lack of accountability. Or responsibility to finish what you fucking started.

I'm conflicted, because a while ago I theorized the best games have the smallest teams. But that was naive

>thread dies as soon as some retard writes an essay scaring away all the hoes
tism needs to be banned

>>700976070
essayfag, is there any moment in your life in which you are not endlessly seething about SOMETHING? has your soul ever known a moment's peace?

>>700970309
It looks like a guy on a surf board from the perspective of a shark

>>700979219
>shark
I see what you did there. Like the tranny shark plush from Ikea

>>700978962
....there is a lot to be disappointed and angry with. This world is unbelievably shit, and people like you contribute to that

>>700980047
the world is not going to get any better through your anger. rage begets rage, pain begets pain. if you want to feel more at peace, learn to let go of your anger. accept your place as cosmic dust.

>>700980975
I genuinely would accept my place if anybody big whatsoever was saying what I was saying, and have been saying on this board forever. But those people don't exist. And somebody HAS to be appropriately angry or it means less than it already does.

>>700981136
it doesn't matter what you say, it doesn't matter what i say, it doesn't even matter what "someone big" says. in the end, we are all cosmic dust and there is no point to any of this. there is no anger that is appropriate when you want people to build more and do more, anger's only outcome is destruction.

the fact that he named his studio after his pre troon name and had to change it will never not be funny

>>700970361
Man, I had a blast playing An Untitled Story back in the day. I should go back to it someday.

>>700970092
FPBP