You may remember the Games Commer from the Opening Night Live, where it was announced three years ago as a new Open World RPG of Scirium, Fallout and The Out of the Worlds. Founding against the background of a medieval Portugal, it was intended to find the frank origin of the Nights Temple, which allows players to create their role, and the 12th -century fortresses, beaches and mountains, located the landscape of a 12th century land.
Unfortunately, its developer, some evil games, do not have access to the notorious deepest treasures of the Templers. Back in 2022, the studio was financed by investing $ 13.2 million from Natis through investment. It may look a lot, but in the mood of Baitisda and Osidian, talking about the Grand RPGS is really just an old wizard eye. The plan was to welcome more skills and investors with the trailer, and to build Verdsong-which was a “strange song”.
Clearly, something went wrong. In March last year, reports revealed that Sharir had left most of his staff. “What was very difficult,” co -founder Jeff Guardier said. “I’m sure most staff got another job, but I don’t know 100 % of them. So this has been a terrible time in this industry.”
Sixth .They was an attempt to expand the runway for the development of Verdsong. At the same time, the rest of the team scaled their vision to what a Verdsong would be. The Guardian says, “We were making a big open world RPG.” The way I have learned to do it requires many people, which means that a lot of money that was not coming into the industry. “
So some wicked made the second prototype of Verdsong-at this time a zone-based RPG that would not require the open scale of the world. The Guardian, called the Chechen Evod, is a wise example of the genre, which the PC Gamer has recently celebrated despite his limited reaction.
“And we have decided to add a bullying light element to it,” says the Guardian. “Since the whole game was dealing with the topics of life and death and what happens when you die, we decided that it was naturally lendd to ourselves in such a gameplay. So we took what we took and re -prepared.”
We knew that the clock was collecting.
Jeff Guardian, co -founder
Some wicked had already made many tech and art assets for Verdsong, and they didn’t want to start from the beginning. The Guardian says, “It will keep us far behind.” And we knew that the clock was hitting. “The restructuring process has withdrawn it to its initial career in Bethesda, and they are working on more than a dozen DLC packs for deception and Fallout 3,” says the Guardian. ” It was for the next big game, “The Guardian says,” The Guardian says, “It was for the next big game.”
The concept was to cut the notion that the wicker had invested and stuck it together, but it felt like a positive action. The Guardian says, “Sneaky for a company .The is very difficult, not only those who have to know clearly, but also those who live behind.” “And I was really happy to see the people who were really digging and pushing for something that I could go out and pitch, which was not looking for a large amount of money.”
Even despite these low ambitions, however, Verdsong has so far failed to attract his funds. In the meantime, the developer has left behind. Guardian co -founder Charles Stepus, who was the design director of Out Worlds and Lead Level Designer in New Vegas, recently got a job in Disney. Starfield lead Quest designer Will Sheen, who left Bethesda to work on Verdsong, is now a lead designer in the studio behind Sabanta.
“We are with a skeleton staff, and I’m working hard to try to find more investment or publication offers for the game,” says the Guardian. “I am hopeful this year’s somewhat, but we are just trying to hang the storm forward, which many people thought about ending in 2025 and I do not see this fact right now. Now, it is very difficult.”
For today’s game developers, the announcement of the Verdsong’s announcement is an amazingly memorable era of prosperity before the fall. Since then, after the number of extraordinary players, the heights of the latter have reduced the tremors of countless deserving sports for reduced funds and attention. Throughout the industry, many studios raised the mantra of “25” until survivors, hopefully more opportunities will soon go beyond the financial essence – but so far the lunar day is yet to come.
The Guardian says, “My wish list on the steam, over the years, was probably prepared from 20-30 titles that I was literally waiting for and I immediately. I will buy in 250-300 games there.” “And they go on sale, and I have to rank them in a way, because I know I can’t play them all. And he has also trained me to wait for the exemption, okay? Because in one day (only) can play a lot of games. So many people, I think they were not too cool this day.”
In a short period, it looks like a good situation for gamers. But if the industry remains unstable, and the studios are broken more often than living together, we will not feel the benefit of the hard, well -driven teams developing our past work as a unit. Similarly, Lariyan reached the heights of Gate 3 in Baldour, and why the machine games have such a difficult task in the Indiana Jones and the great circle. Without stability, we do not get the best PC games so far.
In some ways, developers like Guardian have helped to create their own problem. He says, “Skyerium is still the most played game of Bethesda.” This is crazy for me. But once people spend all this time in a game, they are more likely to spend all the time in the game. “The founder of the wacked at Fallout 76 won the project, both destructive launches and the Westlanders, who took their good fortune to think that they were very proud of it. Damaged, and others like it.
The Guardian refers to the echoes of his ex -colleague Shen, from the world of Warraf Kundarm. “A new MMO will come out, and it will look better.” “There will be a lot of things that were very charming. And many people will draw their attention to him, and they will play it for a month, and then they will just go back to Wow.
In fact, looking at the prescription and experience behind the studio, it is a bit terrifying to see some evil struggle. The Guardian is not only a designer but also a longtime producer responsible for the Fall Out 4 such as mega hit schedule and budget management. If a level head like this has not yet found a safe way through the squad, which is not good for young teams with ambitions.
For now, the Guardian and its skeleton staff are continuing to shopping around the Verdsong, looking for a deal that will allow all their art, lore and design to be equal to anything. To ensure that no evil temple is on the path of the temple. “I’ve been lucky to work on a group of sports, but this is the first game that was really my baby with the whole clothes,” says the Guardian. “So the danger never sees the light of the day, it hurts me. That’s why I am really working hard to make sure that this doesn’t happen.”
