![]() It took a while, but we feel like we've settled on the right compromise between the two with Earthblade. Prototypes EXOK1–3 taught us a lot, but ultimately we ventured way too far from our comfort zone for them to realistically ever get finished. I've fallen into both traps before, but this time the success of Celeste gave us a lot of runway and we tended to swing too wide. It can also be easy to get stuck in your comfort zone producing lifeless work, particularly when there's a lot of financial pressure. It's tempting as an artist to push yourself too far into the unknown, into a project that's not going to get finished given the constraints of your circumstances (budget, time, motivation, appetite for failure). The comfort zone is safe and easy, but boring. The unknown is exciting, but scary and difficult. The truth is that we don't know how long it will take, just that it will take as long as it takes (and that it will take a long time).įinding the right project is hard! It has to hit that tiny sweet spot between the unknown and the comfort zone. This time we'll be faster." Now it sounds optimistic to say out loud that Earthblade could be released within 5 short years of Celeste. I was happy to read that, but then I saw the only reply, which was from someone who had evidently followed us since TowerFall because they responded with something like, "Get ready to wait 5 years :/"Īt the time I thought to myself, "No. I think a lot about an exchange I read on a gaming forum (or maybe it was on Reddit), soon after Celeste's release, where a player expressed how excited they were to see what our team would make next. It took us 4 prototypes to find Earthblade, and it's now been over 3 years since Celeste's initial release. In the meantime, now you know the general vibe. When we finally do show it off, be sure to point your feet away from animals and small children, and prepare for your footwear to be blasted clean off your feet. It'll probably be a while before you get more information about Earthblade. But an air of mystery lends itself particularly well to this project, so we've opted to save it all up for a big reveal that will hopefully blow your socks off. While making Celeste, we basically tweeted out whatever interesting-looking thing we were working on day-to-day, when we were in the mood for sharing. We've debated back and forth how to talk about this game during development. We also just wanted to let everyone know the name of the game now that we've settled on one, so that we can all stop calling it EXOK4. We didn't want to reveal much about the game or its story yet, but we think that this well establishes the world and the feeling of being in it. The poster and logo are by Pedro Medeiros, and the music by Lena Raine. So defeating them early on will make the fight alot easier.Earthblade - that's the name of our next game! We‘re also showing off this teaser poster, and a snippet from the game's soundtrack. The spell gets vastly stronger over time. The guardians are casting Conservation to reinforce their armor.Elves don't have access to a smelter building and thus are inefficient in farming iron from the world deposits. ![]() Use the dwarven monument to get iron faster.After some time has passed, the rune warrior headed back to his mines to get the Earthblade as a reward. Upon having brought Urak the materials, he will begin creating the final form of the blade. For creating said metal, Urak would need multiple rare resources:Ĭould be found at multiple fiery locationsĬould be found at either Arz'ach in Mulandir or Ulather in The Rift.Ĭould be found at The Unforgiven at The Howling Mounds. Alternatively, if the rune warrior would want to keep it, she would need to create red adamantinum. Upon having talked to Urak, he suggested to trade the Earthblade from the rune warrior for rune stones for rune heroes. Urak Gursam, the miner, could either provide the necessary resources or he would purchase the raw blade from the rune warrior. Upon showing it to Skarvig, he was amazed and suggested to talk to Urak Gursam at the Windholme mines. The wrath of the mountains occured: The guardians had to be destroyed to obtain the Earthblade.Īfter all five guardians had been defeated, the raw earthblade was given to the rune warrior.
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