Revenant Hill, the following recreation by the makers of Evening within the Woods, has been canceled. The reason being that the sport’s narrative designer and author Scott Benson is battling a extreme sickness that has compelled him to step away from the undertaking.
Benson reveals on his private X account that he’s been battling extreme coronary heart failure over the previous 12 months, which has drastically restricted his capability to work. You possibly can learn his publish under.
So. Over the previous 12 months or so I received very sick and it did not go away. Finally I used to be identified with extreme coronary heart failure, almost certainly from a virus. It’ll proceed to drastically restrict me for the foreseeable future and as such I’ve needed to cease working within the method I as soon as did.
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The Glory Society posted a press release on Twitter (which is now the only real picture on the studio’s web site) explaining that Benson’s absence requires the crew to not solely finish the event of Revenant Hill however for the studio to droop operations. The indie studio was based by Benson and his spouse Bethany Hockenberry, who has additionally stepped away to help him. The assertion explains that with such a small crew of workers, shedding two key workers members was an excessive amount of of a blow for work to proceed as deliberate. The Glory Society’s assertion reads partially,
Making something complicated poses challenges alongside the way in which. Video games take some time to make and normally require a great crew working collectively. We’ve been fortunate to have one such good crew. Sadly, current critical well being points have necessitated two key members stepping away from the undertaking indefinitely. We’re a small crew and we every put on a number of hats. This can be a lack of a number of arduous to interchange hats in an surroundings the place all hats are wanted. Given the realities of schedules, budgets, and the fraught activity of remodeling the entire undertaking inside these parameters, the crew has amicably determined to droop operations. For all intents and functions, that is the top of the event of Revenant Hill.
Benson is called one of many writers and artist/animator of 2017’s critically acclaimed Evening within the Woods, which he made alongside co-writer Hockenberry and late designer Alec Holowka. Following the sport’s success, he and Hockenberry fashioned The Glory Society in 2019 alongside musician/artist Wren Farren. Revenant Hill, the studio’s first undertaking, was revealed in Might throughout a PlayStation Showcase. Set in 1919, it starred a cat named Twigs who, after its barn residence burns down, is compelled to take residence in a log close to a graveyard. Sadly, an owl begins demanding that Twigs pay lease and the sport focuses on the cat performing odd jobs to make ends meet. You possibly can learn a piece of the sport’s PlayStation Weblog synopsis under.
Develop crops to promote on the secret market or use on your personal functions. Put down roots. Run by way of the fields and the timber. Watch the seasons go. Make buddies who grow to be neighbors who grow to be household. Additionally make enemies. That’s unavoidable generally. Work out what the ghosts need. Host more and more bold events for witches and demons and different issues that don’t have correct names. Get snarled in a world within the midst of violent change. Construct a neighborhood accidentally. Sq. dance with a possum. Eat mice.
Revenant Hill was slated for PlayStation consoles and PC and had no launch window. Whereas it is unfortuatnte that Twigs’ journey might by no means see the sunshine of day, Benson’s well being is infinitely extra vital and we at Sport Informer want him a speedy street to restoration.
