Current phoenix labs animator here (NOT on Project Dragon): Couple things to add, the team working on Dragon was not only the best at our studio but some of the most impressive people I've ever come across in the industry. The amount of competency and skill was inspiring, I loved checking their art channels on slack to see how far the bar could go. If you thought the art looked good, you should have had the chance to play it. I spent hours on the holiday playtest. Near the ship date for Dragon, a few of our teammates were pulled off of other projects to help them ship. When the layoffs came, we lost them too. We're still feeling the hole and knowledge left from that crop of folk getting let go.
I feel for them and all of you left at the studio. You've all got to be wondering what's going down and if you might be next. Especially when they didn't pull the loaned staff back... Good luck out there! 👍
I would also like to know if you have insight as to why this was canned, because there is clearly a huge desire from players to see this project revived.
Not so fun fact: Artstation, the social network for commercial artist, was dominated by project dragon art drop for weeks, as the project was cancelled and the artists uploaded their years of work. It was stunning, so many hard working artist pouring their life into something that ended nowhere. Before that it was project Black. Seeing your main source of motivation becoming a pretty graveyard of games projects is sad to say the least.
I shall have to now go to there. I am on deviantart for just stuff to use as my desktop wallpaper but now i need to see if there is more on there i can use to look at.
"Our marketing team couldn't figure out how to sell microtransactions, loot boxes, and season passes for Project Dragon. AXE IT AND MOVE ON. ALSO, YOU'RE FIRED!" - Probably not what happened, but I'm a pessimist at heart when it comes to The Industry.
The investor outlook might be "a new ip in a genre that's proven successful couldn't make it's money back. What chance does a new ip with an unproven game genre stand." Risks are for the indie devs.
@@yapp2yapp2Genuinely so confused how garbage keeps getting funded even at the major net loss investors are gaining from it. There's too much god damn money in the system.
Honestly yeah, why did they shut down this game? 9:26 "They're a crypto company" Ah. Five words. All it takes is five little words and it all makes sense.
"Positive social media pressure!" *Company ignores it.* This is kind of why I don't believe in positive social media pressure; they don't more for anything but a sword of damocles.
9:15 I'd add my own third possibility : the cryptobro company owners are on the run from debtors screaming for their blood (and money). Which could in turn explain why they're not answering questions and offers to buy the IP, as some of those may be bait to find them.
Follow the Money; Taxes and bankruptcy are common reasons to purposely de-value your assets. Selling the IP would make that development time COGS; instead of writing it off as a loss.
@@l5robling that would just give them a timeframe to sell it so itll look good on the business for bad years. like game bombs, sell some IPs, break even
Very sad to see not only Project Dragon get cancelled but also all the other games. Phoenix Labs had multiple games in development and everything got canned. A list of projects I know of: * Project Dragon * Project Bismuth * Project Unicorn * Project Falcon * Project Oni * Project Piranha * Project Lax And there's probably more. They only kept the 2 already released games (Dauntless and Fae Farm)
The worst thing about it is the fact that a hundred people poured so much love into this... and now it's gone. 3 years of work, 3 years of dedication, 3 years lifetime .. and it's just gone. That breaks my heart. Being an artist myself, I've been there, but not with projects that long. It must be devastating for the people who have worked on this.
You know the most fucked up part about that. Toys for Bob devs who got their work on Crash 5 cancelled went to pheonix labs, and then got their work there ALSO cancelled. So much good stuff that gets cancelled because of idiot higher ups
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I absolutely think that more companies need to take the "Ryan Reynolds Deadpool" approach to games and see community reaction to things before fate is ultimately decided on something it would could keep unique things like this from getting scrapped just because some higher ups might not see it doing well or thinking it's going to make their company big bucks. That game looks amazing and I hope they find some way to finish it up and get it out to people.
@@michaelmonstar4276 Deadpool was scrapped but ryan reynolds leaked the concept footage of deadpool online which blew up so much that it made marvel decide to keep working on it and release it. That is not a "pitch" but nt
@@michaelmonstar4276 A pitch is only given to higher ups internally. Usually after presenting a vertical slice or something promising, this is before full on development begins and before you get the full funding. Getting a reaction after 3 years from the community who will actually buy the game is different and would be the deciding factor to gauge if the return will be worth it or to cut your loses
Yeah a lot of people are dying to play their dream tog game. I would love to throw money at this game. The fact that it was weeks/months away and was already playable is insane to me. Whyyy :(
First of all: Companies don't only want money. They want _ALL_ of the money. Thor pointed out possible reasons why near the end of the vid around 9:15 The publisher/IP owner is Fort... A crypto currency company. He said there's two reasons he can think of why they did this: 1.) Tax break reasons, and/or 2.) they were not gonna be able to add blockchain on the game.
Honestly I hope this project gets enough recognition to achieve an "If they won't do it, we'll fund it ourselves" status from the community. Because I absolutely love that concept art and those models they provided and I'd be more than happy to help see something like that come back to life, even if I can only provide a few bucks towards it.
The fact that Concord got made, with likely several people on the team knowing it would faceplant while something like this gets shitcanned is just such a shame. The environments remind me of Dragon Quest Builders but with so much more polish... I really hope something comes out of this regardless.
Damn it, now I remembered DQ Builders. My entire mind and body wanted to love those two games, but their dogshit design decisions made that impossible.
I cried over the loss of not getting to experience this beautiful game, I love the spiral knights art style, voxel games and chill games like stardew... like this was genuinley upsetting that this got cancelled
@@lordfrz9339The original dev let the IP expire, right? I assumed the bigger issue was that the people who ripped it off wholesale posed as the original team behind it.
Such a shame, I really hope the general gaming public can convince phoenix to continue Project Dragon. I would 100% try it out just to experience the world
As much as I would love for that to happen too, they also laid off a good majority of the professionals working on that game. And after an experience like that, having your years worth of hard work just trashed like it's nothing RIGHT before early access too, it's more than likely many might just refuse to comeback if the same management/leadership who laid them off are still there. And I wouldn't blame them for it either.
I didn't know about this until now and it absolutely breaks my heart that such a beautifully creative world was cut down before launch. It was incredibly clear that a lot of love and passion was put into that game and it's a shame we'll never see it come to fruition.
The devs need to get together, form their own studio and kickstart the crap out of this. EDIT: That'll teach me for posting before the end of the video. I'm sad the parent company never reached out. Wholesome of you to try and save the project though. It's the effort that counts.
They can still form a new company, come up with a new name for it and kickstart it. Yes, they have to redo everything, but I think the kickstarter money and early access would be enough to make it work.
@@StefanRial-i4f talented people always find jobs. You will see these guys triumph in other games, though you may not connect the dots. Also, think about Demons Souls and Dark Souls. A lot of companies go down, only to see their employees clone past hits.
What makes them lifting the embargo and the work being shown so good, is that this can now be used as portfolio stuff with public feedback despite being a pulled project.
Also, companies should "leak" this kind of stuff to test the waters on projects they are considering to cancel rather than just canceling it, since then they can get a feel of the water rather than just blindly thinking that it's a bad game that won't work.
Yep! People working on the test footage of the first Deadpool movie leaked it and it worked really well to get Fox to greenlight actual production because of all the fans
Even if this Project can't be revived, I'm excited about what it could inspire. There's a lot of very unique ideas that could fit into other games and I hope to see a bit of it in the coming years.
Project dragon looked like such a pretty game it had such a unique artstyle and aesthetic I hope people see this game as inspiration to make more cool things like project dragon go kick some ass goblins you got this 💛💜
When the project was cancelled, the artists uploaded their work on Artstation (instagram for commercial artists). The front page was dominated by a beautiful corpse of a dead game for weeks. And it wasnt even the first time, Project Black was even more painfull for me because i love their artstyle.
The concept art is some of the most creative and joyfully expressed that I've ever seen in a cancelled project. A lot of talent floating around out there. Hopefully they end up somewhere with a union or at least more control over when they lose their jobs, ie working for themselves in an indie sense.
Parent company doesn't respond: oh they're just not interested. Parent company is a crypto business: oh, nobody's answering because they're all in jail for fraud
"Fraud fraud". Is that just regular fraud, or is it where you falsely claim to be engaging in fraudulent activity, for the purposes of illicitly obtaining money that you wouldn't if people thought you were operating on the level?
these snapshots and work examples just ooze passion. im reading a lot of "its sad this art is gonna go no where"... but it doesnt feel like that to me. it didnt become what the artist thought it would be, but i busted out my drawing pad after like 5 years of not touching it after seeing this. just because it doesnt end where u think it does, doesnt mean ur art doesnt have value. u never know who ur gonna touch.
Financial incentive was proven 'mostly' irrelevant by Concord (and others of course). Even with the opposite of financial incentive made abundantly clear, the juggernaut of executive ignorance can be difficult to sway.
If anything, other devs or studios could possibly take inspiration from these leaks. Ngl the creatures and characters look amazing. Still sucks this got canceled…
The idea of having this brought by good people and released and then that y'all were left on read is devistating. This is so far up my alley!! Like an evolution of cube world kinda vibes I would love to play this game!
Awesome way to encourage the media angle of supporting this game. Making it positive, essentially giving starting numbers for an unannounced and unreleased game, instead of threatening pointless actions, is a testament to your morales, Thor, if I may be so bold as to use your name. We need this kind of positive influence.
The craziest thing too me about this, is a game like this which i wager would have at least an 80% chance of being a success based on what were seeing here get scraped months away from an intial release, but concord gets released with 8mill in funding only to get the servers pulled and canceled in less than 2 weeks from launch. This is why the video games industry will fail i swear. Not saying this would be close in gameplay, but the style reminds me of viva pinata alot but with a more earthy spiritual undertone rather than a cutesy fluffy look, and i feel like we haven't got a stop and smell the flowers game like that in a while, what a shame.
@@nowonmetube I used the name of the company that owns the IP instead (9:14). By allowing the devs to post all these assets/clips after they killed it, that may as well be their response to anyone that says they're interested in it. "Oh, you wanna buy a copy? It's cancelled." - "Oh, you wanna buy the entire IP? It's cancelled."
This reminds me a lot of Sky Saga. It even has the same block jiggle placement animation. Sky Saga was also another stellar game that went into beta and then was canceled. Fully playable with functioning multiplayer.
It's so sad that I only find out about the game from all of the amazing artists sharing their work that will never come to be. Honestly the best game art I've seen.
I'm "pressing F" by repeatedly slamming my head into my keyboard in frustration that this got cancelled. This game looks like it would have been so dope.
100% kickstart it, i would LOVE this, ive seen sneak peaks from very early stage, and i mean just some artwork not even 3d. someone had posted about it on twitter at a very early stage. and i was waiting on this
very similar to what happened to the game Sky Saga, the game was months away from release but the company was acquired by a Chinese mega corporation and was shut down, such a waste
My heart broke while watching this video :( the art style is gorgeous and it looks like the team really poured so much soul into it. It really hammers home the importance of doing a better job choosing your employer. You must interview them as much as they interview you. A rug pull like this probably could have been spotted early.
Watching his current stream live and after seeing that Bezos here､ I look up to see what Thor is talking about just to witness Bezos timely showing up on stream
I hate capitalism so much. The very idea that artists poured their hearts and souls into this and then the game was potentially cancelled all the while for a tax write off shows how unbelievably bad the current industry is for this art medium.
Hm, I wonder, even if ya got the IP, the shareholders own anything from the game that would prevent them from working on it? Though even though if they do, not sure if it's a good idea to showcase this on twitter. Yeah sure it forces responsibility, but the public will have their own idea's of what the game was going to be like which I'm sure is not what the dev's wanted for their game. But honestly, this is nothing new in the game's industry, it's just one of the few that came to the public eye.
Current phoenix labs animator here (NOT on Project Dragon):
Couple things to add, the team working on Dragon was not only the best at our studio but some of the most impressive people I've ever come across in the industry. The amount of competency and skill was inspiring, I loved checking their art channels on slack to see how far the bar could go. If you thought the art looked good, you should have had the chance to play it. I spent hours on the holiday playtest.
Near the ship date for Dragon, a few of our teammates were pulled off of other projects to help them ship. When the layoffs came, we lost them too. We're still feeling the hole and knowledge left from that crop of folk getting let go.
@@Calvlath If there’s a way to communicate the fans love for the project and our desire to play Project Dragon, please let your higher ups know
Did they give any indication as to why this was axed?
I feel for them and all of you left at the studio. You've all got to be wondering what's going down and if you might be next. Especially when they didn't pull the loaned staff back... Good luck out there! 👍
RELEASE THE PLAYTEST!!!!!!
I would also like to know if you have insight as to why this was canned, because there is clearly a huge desire from players to see this project revived.
Damn Pirate Software was literally interested in buying the IP to continue development. You are a true king to gamers.
Not so fun fact: Artstation, the social network for commercial artist, was dominated by project dragon art drop for weeks, as the project was cancelled and the artists uploaded their years of work. It was stunning, so many hard working artist pouring their life into something that ended nowhere. Before that it was project Black. Seeing your main source of motivation becoming a pretty graveyard of games projects is sad to say the least.
That genuinely makes me sad....
I shall have to now go to there. I am on deviantart for just stuff to use as my desktop wallpaper but now i need to see if there is more on there i can use to look at.
*salute*
Yeah Not suprised.
They did the same During
*S.O.P.A. & P.I.P.A.* of 2010 with 'DeviantArt.' Patreon was not a thing yet..
common artist L tbh
"Our marketing team couldn't figure out how to sell microtransactions, loot boxes, and season passes for Project Dragon. AXE IT AND MOVE ON. ALSO, YOU'RE FIRED!" - Probably not what happened, but I'm a pessimist at heart when it comes to The Industry.
No no, it's totally fair, I mean the fact a crypto company is even involved is pretty sus.
My thoughts exactly as soon as I heard a crypto company was involved.
Owned by crypto losers...nah you're probably right.
@@GCAT01Living Ah, so they were trying for an NFT game.
It's definitely in the ball park
In the world od Concords, we need more of Dragons. So sad it’s gone :(
seriously, look at how much soul it has. How can CONCORD get so much funding, yet stuff like this gets scrapped? AAA is cooked
The investor outlook might be "a new ip in a genre that's proven successful couldn't make it's money back. What chance does a new ip with an unproven game genre stand." Risks are for the indie devs.
@@yapp2yapp2Genuinely so confused how garbage keeps getting funded even at the major net loss investors are gaining from it. There's too much god damn money in the system.
Sadge
@@Kr3cikBMC No need to beat the dead horse. And by that I mean Concord
I love at 2:33 the little fire elemental has a frying pan for a hat frying a drumstick. So CUTE!
Honestly yeah, why did they shut down this game?
9:26 "They're a crypto company" Ah. Five words. All it takes is five little words and it all makes sense.
Four, even!
@@MediaMunkee Five... "They're" is a contactraction of "They are"
That's five words...
But it's 4? 😂
@@ax9897they're on it's own is one word tbf
@Subpar1O1 no
"Positive social media pressure!"
*Company ignores it.*
This is kind of why I don't believe in positive social media pressure; they don't more for anything but a sword of damocles.
In this case, the parent company already had the sword of crypto-cles resting on their scalp the entire time.
9:15 I'd add my own third possibility : the cryptobro company owners are on the run from debtors screaming for their blood (and money). Which could in turn explain why they're not answering questions and offers to buy the IP, as some of those may be bait to find them.
Interesting take, makes me curious now
Spicy take, interesting.
Hopefully someone reputable can snatch it up for cheap in the inevitable fire sale
Follow the Money; Taxes and bankruptcy are common reasons to purposely de-value your assets. Selling the IP would make that development time COGS; instead of writing it off as a loss.
@@l5robling that would just give them a timeframe to sell it so itll look good on the business for bad years. like game bombs, sell some IPs, break even
Very sad to see not only Project Dragon get cancelled but also all the other games.
Phoenix Labs had multiple games in development and everything got canned.
A list of projects I know of:
* Project Dragon
* Project Bismuth
* Project Unicorn
* Project Falcon
* Project Oni
* Project Piranha
* Project Lax
And there's probably more. They only kept the 2 already released games (Dauntless and Fae Farm)
The worst thing about it is the fact that a hundred people poured so much love into this... and now it's gone. 3 years of work, 3 years of dedication, 3 years lifetime .. and it's just gone. That breaks my heart. Being an artist myself, I've been there, but not with projects that long. It must be devastating for the people who have worked on this.
3 years of over a hundred people that's like.... 300 years of effort...
It's not gone. It's out here and wasn't hidden away from all of us forever.
@@ragemachinist No. Just no. At 40h a week and 2 weeks of break, that's closer to 70 years, not 300 😐.
Gone? Wdym gone? 99% of projects are gone. This one was revealed, i.e. all the assets are still there 👀.
@@louisrobitaille5810 All of them protected under the IP of a blockchain company that will definitely cease and desist anyone who tries to use them
Thor mentioning Spiral Knights is like receiving a message from god
Blew my mind
You know the most fucked up part about that. Toys for Bob devs who got their work on Crash 5 cancelled went to pheonix labs, and then got their work there ALSO cancelled. So much good stuff that gets cancelled because of idiot higher ups
Toys for bob is so goated, All their crash games were goated. I'm so upset now, like i'm genuinely heartbroken.
Noooo not toys for bob!
Crash 5 also got cancelled?
There is an hour long video from DidYouKnowGaming about Crash 5 and all that mess that happened at ToysForBob and Activision
And now they're separate and msft let them make the next crash and probably Spyro
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I absolutely think that more companies need to take the "Ryan Reynolds Deadpool" approach to games and see community reaction to things before fate is ultimately decided on something it would could keep unique things like this from getting scrapped just because some higher ups might not see it doing well or thinking it's going to make their company big bucks. That game looks amazing and I hope they find some way to finish it up and get it out to people.
That's called a "pitch".
@@michaelmonstar4276 Deadpool was scrapped but ryan reynolds leaked the concept footage of deadpool online which blew up so much that it made marvel decide to keep working on it and release it. That is not a "pitch" but nt
@@michaelmonstar4276 A pitch is only given to higher ups internally. Usually after presenting a vertical slice or something promising, this is before full on development begins and before you get the full funding. Getting a reaction after 3 years from the community who will actually buy the game is different and would be the deciding factor to gauge if the return will be worth it or to cut your loses
Yeah a lot of people are dying to play their dream tog game. I would love to throw money at this game. The fact that it was weeks/months away and was already playable is insane to me. Whyyy :(
Dream rpg game*
That Ocarina Golem at 1:20 is the cutest thing I've ever seen. That's just a flawless concept.
Thats Bard
I smell foul play. Companies only want money, and leaving a working product on the shelf just like that doesn't sound like the whole story.
First of all: Companies don't only want money. They want _ALL_ of the money.
Thor pointed out possible reasons why near the end of the vid around 9:15
The publisher/IP owner is Fort... A crypto currency company.
He said there's two reasons he can think of why they did this: 1.) Tax break reasons, and/or 2.) they were not gonna be able to add blockchain on the game.
@@ctographerm3285 or they are behind the scenes “adding web3” stuff to the game. So they can make crypto buckaroonies long term.
People always looking for a scandal without having any of the facts. Smh
@@blackrippin bro... crypto company, enough info.
It's reallly weird... you might be right
Honestly I hope this project gets enough recognition to achieve an "If they won't do it, we'll fund it ourselves" status from the community. Because I absolutely love that concept art and those models they provided and I'd be more than happy to help see something like that come back to life, even if I can only provide a few bucks towards it.
The fact that Concord got made, with likely several people on the team knowing it would faceplant while something like this gets shitcanned is just such a shame. The environments remind me of Dragon Quest Builders but with so much more polish... I really hope something comes out of this regardless.
Damn it, now I remembered DQ Builders. My entire mind and body wanted to love those two games, but their dogshit design decisions made that impossible.
I cried over the loss of not getting to experience this beautiful game, I love the spiral knights art style, voxel games and chill games like stardew... like this was genuinley upsetting that this got cancelled
That is criminal.
In the sea of AAA slop that is 2024, this looked like a nice break from that. Guess not. Thats really sad.
That's why I switched to Indie games, they actually want to make games, not money.
@@hamzamotara4304 Amen to that. Indie devs rock.
The spiral knights mention hit me like a truck. I freakin love that game.
Video Game Publishers be like: That's MY IP to sit on and do nothing with!
Hey, at least in 2124 it'll be public domain.
As this is a crypto company they're probably on the run because of fraud, as is typical.
@@RorikH nah some company will lobby to remove the time limit on copyright by then
@@RorikH If they literaly do nothing with it long enough you can take the IP via a court case. Just happened with flappy bird.
@@lordfrz9339The original dev let the IP expire, right? I assumed the bigger issue was that the people who ripped it off wholesale posed as the original team behind it.
That's insane. There is so much love poured into that project and it shows.
Such a shame, I really hope the general gaming public can convince phoenix to continue Project Dragon. I would 100% try it out just to experience the world
Phoenix probably don't own the IP therefore Project Dragon won't come to light again unfortunately.
I don't think that's gonna happen even if the whole gaming community banded together and demanded it.
If it didn’t work for titanfall 3 I’m not sure it would ever work for this game too ☹️
As much as I would love for that to happen too, they also laid off a good majority of the professionals working on that game. And after an experience like that, having your years worth of hard work just trashed like it's nothing RIGHT before early access too, it's more than likely many might just refuse to comeback if the same management/leadership who laid them off are still there. And I wouldn't blame them for it either.
@@jmel1000 that’s true, I forgot about that.
I didn't know about this until now and it absolutely breaks my heart that such a beautifully creative world was cut down before launch. It was incredibly clear that a lot of love and passion was put into that game and it's a shame we'll never see it come to fruition.
The devs need to get together, form their own studio and kickstart the crap out of this.
EDIT: That'll teach me for posting before the end of the video. I'm sad the parent company never reached out. Wholesome of you to try and save the project though. It's the effort that counts.
Keep trying! If we can save this it means a LOT
They can still form a new company, come up with a new name for it and kickstart it. Yes, they have to redo everything, but I think the kickstarter money and early access would be enough to make it work.
@@StefanRial-i4f talented people always find jobs. You will see these guys triumph in other games, though you may not connect the dots. Also, think about Demons Souls and Dark Souls. A lot of companies go down, only to see their employees clone past hits.
@@korosuke1788 Yeah I've been in the industry for many years
I like that they lifted the NDA at least, lets the dev's show off their work instead of just having a gap in their work history.
The art direction is on point. Shame on the executives that killed the project instead of trying to find alternatives.
Nicholas Kole, Nicola Saviori, just to name a few. These guys had an all star team.
What makes them lifting the embargo and the work being shown so good, is that this can now be used as portfolio stuff with public feedback despite being a pulled project.
Also, companies should "leak" this kind of stuff to test the waters on projects they are considering to cancel rather than just canceling it, since then they can get a feel of the water rather than just blindly thinking that it's a bad game that won't work.
which may be what is happening.
(although the crypto/blockchain connection might hold that game back IRL)
@@m4rt_ kinda learned some called drip marketing recently and that sounds like it'll fit the term
Yep! People working on the test footage of the first Deadpool movie leaked it and it worked really well to get Fox to greenlight actual production because of all the fans
They already fired/laid off 100 people.
"How much money did they need?"
Enough that it would have interfered with a worthless suit's third Mercedes, apparently.
Us: "it had to do with Crypto?!"
Forte: "always has been 🔫"
Since when is Thor's name Forte?
@@nowonmetube Forte's the name of the company that owns the IP
I haven't seen a pre-beta game that looked so good. Love the art style, there's some real creative genius in that group.
The rollercoaster of emotions I felt learning about this games existence AND demise in the same video 😭
It really amazes me how every major game company is on a race to the bottom
D.E.I
The problem is they're still making money. Until people stop paying for shitty games, they'll keep pumping them out.
Capitalism
@skootz24 this implies the existence of communist games, which is actually like to see honestly
@@AricRastley Checkout some Open Source games. Some of them are awesome.
1:20 Windy the Pooh.
Even if this Project can't be revived, I'm excited about what it could inspire. There's a lot of very unique ideas that could fit into other games and I hope to see a bit of it in the coming years.
Out of all the things I expected today, I didn't expect hearing the name Spiral Knights again... Man, the nostalgia
2:00 obligatory "Spiral Knights mentioned!"
God I wish that game had gotten the continue support and growth it deserved...
He'll yes, three rings was a good company
My memory of that game is a bit fuzzy but what is left is basically "I liked the game but hated the business model"
I've never even heard of this but just a few seconds of looking at the art and I'm already in love. Real shame I'll never get to play
Project dragon looked like such a pretty game it had such a unique artstyle and aesthetic I hope people see this game as inspiration to make more cool things like project dragon go kick some ass goblins you got this 💛💜
When the project was cancelled, the artists uploaded their work on Artstation (instagram for commercial artists). The front page was dominated by a beautiful corpse of a dead game for weeks. And it wasnt even the first time, Project Black was even more painfull for me because i love their artstyle.
F
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for."
Meanwhile we get FIFA and CoD every year from here to eternity.
Cod hasn't been cod since the 360
Ppl keep sending money for them 🤷🏻♂️
The concept art is some of the most creative and joyfully expressed that I've ever seen in a cancelled project. A lot of talent floating around out there. Hopefully they end up somewhere with a union or at least more control over when they lose their jobs, ie working for themselves in an indie sense.
oh so thats why I have seen so much art in Artstation of that game!
nothing as motivating as logging into your source of artistic drive to see the pretty corpse of a dead game sprawled out on the front page.
It's so sad thinking about all the amazing worlds and stories we have no idea someone even started let alone finished.
Plot twist: the entire C-suite at Forte ends up in prison for tax fraud, wire fraud, and fraud fraud.
Parent company doesn't respond: oh they're just not interested.
Parent company is a crypto business: oh, nobody's answering because they're all in jail for fraud
"Fraud fraud". Is that just regular fraud, or is it where you falsely claim to be engaging in fraudulent activity, for the purposes of illicitly obtaining money that you wouldn't if people thought you were operating on the level?
Imagine all the games lost and we never even knew. so many unexplored worlds, so many untold stories, all that hard work lost. Truly upsetting.
Reminds me of how we also lost EverQuest Next and Landmark. These games had so much potential.
these snapshots and work examples just ooze passion. im reading a lot of "its sad this art is gonna go no where"... but it doesnt feel like that to me. it didnt become what the artist thought it would be, but i busted out my drawing pad after like 5 years of not touching it after seeing this. just because it doesnt end where u think it does, doesnt mean ur art doesnt have value. u never know who ur gonna touch.
Financial incentive was proven 'mostly' irrelevant by Concord (and others of course). Even with the opposite of financial incentive made abundantly clear, the juggernaut of executive ignorance can be difficult to sway.
That's such a cool and unique art direction, we need more of that!!
If anything, other devs or studios could possibly take inspiration from these leaks. Ngl the creatures and characters look amazing. Still sucks this got canceled…
Spiral Knights mentioned, i am more then happy to be reminded of my child hood
"There were dragons" is the only thing i can think of seeing this being cancelled
No. Don't bring that up!
This is the depth of character that a lot games need! This is so intriguing. kinda hope they do decide to revisit this and maybe release it someday.
The idea of having this brought by good people and released and then that y'all were left on read is devistating. This is so far up my alley!! Like an evolution of cube world kinda vibes I would love to play this game!
Awesome way to encourage the media angle of supporting this game. Making it positive, essentially giving starting numbers for an unannounced and unreleased game, instead of threatening pointless actions, is a testament to your morales, Thor, if I may be so bold as to use your name. We need this kind of positive influence.
F, and I would take this over Dauntless anytime
Yeah... so much potential. It's great that they can show their work.
That’s fucking disappointing! I would’ve bought and played it
I'm looking at all this concept art, and realizing I want this - in it's intended voxels - as an animated show.
They need to bring back this to life. It looks damn good. 💯
Someone needs to collect the Dragon Balls ASAP!
Strikes me as very Ghibli-esque with the incredibly beautiful nature shots and wonderfully charming little creatures
It would be legit awesome if Pirate Software bought Project Dragon. Please keep us updated.
I hope they keep trying. I’d support the crowdfund to launch in a heartbeat
SPIRAL KNIGHTS HAVE BEEN MENTIONED LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO!!!!!!
The craziest thing too me about this, is a game like this which i wager would have at least an 80% chance of being a success based on what were seeing here get scraped months away from an intial release, but concord gets released with 8mill in funding only to get the servers pulled and canceled in less than 2 weeks from launch. This is why the video games industry will fail i swear. Not saying this would be close in gameplay, but the style reminds me of viva pinata alot but with a more earthy spiritual undertone rather than a cutesy fluffy look, and i feel like we haven't got a stop and smell the flowers game like that in a while, what a shame.
Internet for real said, "Let them cook." Lol I wish we did get to see it though.
There is a petition. already 7.7k+ Signatures! let's go!
I love this artstyle and I have been wanting a Voxel game to re explore like minecraft and this looks super fun.
Forte: "You're sold? It's cancelled."
Internet: "Why are you like this?"
Forte? I thought this dudes name was Thor
@@nowonmetube I used the name of the company that owns the IP instead (9:14).
By allowing the devs to post all these assets/clips after they killed it,
that may as well be their response to anyone that says they're interested in it.
"Oh, you wanna buy a copy? It's cancelled." - "Oh, you wanna buy the entire IP? It's cancelled."
Damn I recognized the person right away, I follow him on twitter. Luckily he has found a new job at Studio MDHR the makers of Cuphead.
This reminds me a lot of Sky Saga. It even has the same block jiggle placement animation.
Sky Saga was also another stellar game that went into beta and then was canceled. Fully playable with functioning multiplayer.
all of the art and character designs rule so hard, really hope this gets picked back up
Man...look at that art. So nice.
Looks like a much better looking TROVE, would actually try it.
It's so sad that I only find out about the game from all of the amazing artists sharing their work that will never come to be. Honestly the best game art I've seen.
I'm "pressing F" by repeatedly slamming my head into my keyboard in frustration that this got cancelled. This game looks like it would have been so dope.
100% kickstart it, i would LOVE this, ive seen sneak peaks from very early stage, and i mean just some artwork not even 3d. someone had posted about it on twitter at a very early stage. and i was waiting on this
very similar to what happened to the game Sky Saga, the game was months away from release but the company was acquired by a Chinese mega corporation and was shut down, such a waste
I would play this game day and night if they finished this. The amount of unique environments, NPCs, and characters makes me want to explore so much
My heart broke while watching this video :( the art style is gorgeous and it looks like the team really poured so much soul into it. It really hammers home the importance of doing a better job choosing your employer. You must interview them as much as they interview you. A rug pull like this probably could have been spotted early.
Damn. I never heard of this before but now I’m sad I don’t get to explore the world. It’s beautiful, and I adore the creature designs.
That’s a game worth saving!!
This looks better than Lego Fortnite! #BringBackProjectDragon!
0:53 Bezos be showing up everywhere
Watching his current stream live and after seeing that Bezos here､ I look up to see what Thor is talking about just to witness Bezos timely showing up on stream
I'm so sad I might never get to experience this. So beautifully made. Its just right up my ally
Project bad dragon
Stop
How dare you😭😭
In a world, where every game looks more or less the same, we need this. This is so pretty and interesting I would so love to play this game
I hate capitalism so much. The very idea that artists poured their hearts and souls into this and then the game was potentially cancelled all the while for a tax write off shows how unbelievably bad the current industry is for this art medium.
YOOO, Spiral Knights AND Goggles mentioned? Goggle2 nation rise up!
Hm, I wonder, even if ya got the IP, the shareholders own anything from the game that would prevent them from working on it? Though even though if they do, not sure if it's a good idea to showcase this on twitter. Yeah sure it forces responsibility, but the public will have their own idea's of what the game was going to be like which I'm sure is not what the dev's wanted for their game. But honestly, this is nothing new in the game's industry, it's just one of the few that came to the public eye.
It's reminding me quite a bit of the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, in terms of artstyle
This looks so good, i would jump at the chance to pick this up in a heartbeat
"Context". Never gets old no matter who uses it xD
Wow, that is really nice looking. I hope someone does something with it, or similar to it, even if it wasn't the full scope of what was planned.
Positive Pressure here.... I WANT TO BUY THIS GAME. Local Vancouver Game Dev here as well. Many friends lost their jobs over this decision.
Looks like it would've had a similar art style to the cancelled Sky Saga which was also a really cool voxel game.
The released info is the best job recommendation/reference letter for the devs I've ever seen.