If it turns out not to be on the 10th by our or someone else’s will, don’t hold it too much against us.Īnd for the end, a bit of friendly advice: If lack of communication is so bothersome just ask for a refund and be done with it. It was supposed to be announced in October, but circumstances out of our control postponed it. Until you get to the very end:įor the record, yes, the game has slipped into 2022 and we will have an official confirmation of the delay on the 10th of December. While Peklar’s tone is a little stand-offish throughout, the majority of the update reads like the frustrations of someone who is simply working hard on their game. Why would people want to play something that the developers think it’s still not up to par? It’s about making it what we want it to be, not releasing it just because we gave some arbitrary release date. Everything that was done up until the middle of 2018 has been reworked, 90% of it completely scrapped. In our case, a lot of mistakes were made and will make more in the future, but it’s a normal process for a new, inexperienced team. That doesn’t apply to our products for the most part. It should be used on projects that changed their core idea or scope mid-dev and can’t adjust to. He explains that they don’t have the bandwidth to release trailers and updates that would divert their attention from working on the actual game, and also touches on the idea of “development hell”, and how their inexperience has led to mistakes and the need to rework huge parts of the game (again, very normal game development stuff!):ĭevelopment hell is a term that is thrown around quite often. I don’t think the post, which you can read in full here, is that bad! The vast majority of it is devoted to honest and earnest explanations as to why the game has been delayed into 2022. In a statement posted to fans on November 6, ostensibly about the team’s decision to delay the HR Giger-inspired game, Peklar ends up writing 15 paragraphs which veer wildly from totally understandable explanations of the problems inherent in independent games development to off-hand calls for unhappy backers to simply ask for refunds for the game. The creative director of upcoming horror/shooter game Scorn, Ljubomir Peklar, has issued an apology after an update he made to Kickstarter backers last week went horribly wrong.

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