Development Hell - For those games that are/were in the thin line on getting scrapped or getting a release date.

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You have to be kidding me. Does anyone here have a slight hope that this game will even be good after the Starfield fiasco?
 
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Anonitolia said:
Witchbrook has been in dev for over 8 years now, with multiple dev teams having worked on it, and it barely even has solid screenshots of the game up on its shitty Steam Page. It was announced the same year Stardew Valley came out and has been so radio-silent since that whatever wind it had in its sails has been promptly deflated. Last Twitter post was over a year ago. One of the earliest examples of development hell indie games that I can think of which hasn't been mentioned here yet.

NEVER EVER :story:
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>it finally got a trailer
>WITH NO ACTUAL GAMEPLAY
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my penis is on fire said:
Surprised no one's mentioned this one yet.
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In 2014, Mojang made changes to Minecraft's EULA which banned server microtransactions that affected gameplay. With their revenue suddenly in the gutter, a few Hypixel devs decided to say "Fine! We'll build our own Minecraft, with blackjack and hookers!" Development began in April 2015.
At the end of 2018, Hytale was officially announced, and the trailer amassed 31 million views in one month. Hypixel began posting monthly development blogs, capitalizing off the hype as much as possible, and announcing a release date of 2021.
In 2020, Hypixel was acquired by Riot Games, always a good sign. In 2021, the release date was changed to "probably 2023." Then, the monthly updates became once-every-six-months updates, then the updates stopped entirely. Then, they announced that they were rewriting the entire game and its engine in C++. Now, almost ten years into development, the release date is "we don't know" and the project status is "still working on it."
To put things in perspective, this game started development before Donald Trump came down the escalator.
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Game's completely dead now
 
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ducktales4gameboy said:
The game that is now Stray was another one. I remember watching the original tech demo in middleschool when it was an open-world game set in Kowloon Walled City and it was a straight stealth game where the cat was just a courier a hacker was using to communicate with the resistance/clients/whatnot. Sad the dev tossed all of that out and mashed in the two other half-finished games they were working on.
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Sounds far more interesting than what we got.
 
my penis is on fire said:
Surprised no one's mentioned this one yet.
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In 2014, Mojang made changes to Minecraft's EULA which banned server microtransactions that affected gameplay. With their revenue suddenly in the gutter, a few Hypixel devs decided to say "Fine! We'll build our own Minecraft, with blackjack and hookers!" Development began in April 2015.
At the end of 2018, Hytale was officially announced, and the trailer amassed 31 million views in one month. Hypixel began posting monthly development blogs, capitalizing off the hype as much as possible, and announcing a release date of 2021.
In 2020, Hypixel was acquired by Riot Games, always a good sign. In 2021, the release date was changed to "probably 2023." Then, the monthly updates became once-every-six-months updates, then the updates stopped entirely. Then, they announced that they were rewriting the entire game and its engine in C++. Now, almost ten years into development, the release date is "we don't know" and the project status is "still working on it."
To put things in perspective, this game started development before Donald Trump came down the escalator.
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lol. It got cancelled.

And the studio is closing. lmao.
 
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WaveCruising said:
lol. It got cancelled.

And the studio is closing. lmao.
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I had never heard of this game, but apparently a ton of people were hyped up about it. I was doing some digging and found out they changed their entire fucking engine less than a year ago. This entire thing was horribly mismanaged, and I found a clue that should have been a red flag to everyone this thing was doomed.

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That's right. These retards were so devastated about the Roe v Wade ruling they gave the day off to their staff, which if we're being generous is probably 82% trannies and that means it wouldn't affect them in any case.
I did find a remarkably hilarious response in the Roe v Wade cry tweet thread.

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The irony of this post is insane given they would go on to not release anything and most likely will end up leaving their entire staff jobless.

By the way, if you want to know what benefits they got from a late stage engine swap, here you go!
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It looks like they just took another picture and washed out the colors a little in photoshop.
I am fully and completely convinced this entire project was a money laundering scheme for Riot games.
 
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Give Them Enough Rope said:
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A single dev makes a JRPG for the Nintendo DS way back in the mid-2000s, when indie games had to face one hell of an uphill battle to get console releases.

He asks Nintendo for a DS devkit and gets rejected.

The rest, as they say, is history.
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I'm kinda pissed he removed the game from Steam. Despite not being a game he promised to make it was a solid Tetris clone. Nigger changed the game exe to nothing and took down the store page.
 
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Legend of Iya. Kickstarter link. Some type of metroidvania but he got sidelined by his Mystik Belle projects and real life. If I'm not misremembering a chunk of his kickstarter funds were stolen by an associate.

Also Delver's Drop which has been in development for over 12 years. They went radio silent for a long time but have resurfaced with updates every 2 months trying to finally finish their top down zelda like roguelike.
 
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