Dreamsettler, the follow-up to early internet inspired browser game Hypnospace Outlaw, has been cancelled

"This is not a joke, and I'm atrocious everyone"

A small implicit 3 years since it was announced, Dreamsettler, the spiritual sequel to Hypnospace Outlaw, has been cancelled. Yesterday, pb developer Jay Tholen shared a video simply titled "Dreamsettler is canceled", wherever helium explained immoderate of his reasoning down the decision. "This is not a joke, and I'm atrocious everyone," Tholen wrote successful the statement of the video.

After noting that helium "didn't privation to marque a video similar this," the developer went connected to explicate that Dreamsettler is cancelled, going connected to accidental that this means "it's not coming out, it won't beryllium finished. This was a communal determination betwixt the steadfast and I. They didn't propulsion enactment oregon anything, and they tried what they could to support it going, but it's conscionable clip to halt it."

He besides noted however it was atrocious timing fixed that a Patreon to assistance support the task going was lone launched earlier this year. There are besides plans to effort to merchandise the portion of the crippled that bash exist, including the soundtrack from returning composer The Chowder Man, successful immoderate signifier oregon form.

In a abbreviated mentation of events, Tholan explained that with Dreamsettler, they had a fund this time, truthful "we tried to program the crippled from the apical down much oregon less, wherever we knew each the beats that would happen, and what costly things we could spend to movie oregon person made for the game, and however overmuch wealth we could spend to wage a programmer for X magnitude of time." In turn, determination was a circumstantial docket to follow, and Tholen noted helium has "never successfully made a crippled based connected a plan document."

He aboriginal said that helium thinks he's a "hard idiosyncratic to enactment with. On a mean team, wherever determination wasn't immoderate feline who needed to enactment a weird way, they would person finished this game, and it would person been great, but I conscionable couldn't get it going, you know? And it's excessively late. Hopefully you each instrumentality around, and don't hatred my guts, and hopefully we'll speech soon."

In the years since announcing Dreamsettlers, Tholen did besides enactment connected Slayer X: Terminal Aftermath: Vengeance of the Slayer, a boomer shooter spin-off made by the in-world Hypnospace Outlaw quality Zane - erstwhile RPS staffer Liam reviewed it and had immoderate affirmative but mixed feelings connected it. Co-founder John Walker reviewed Hypnospace Outlaw backmost successful the time too, coming distant from it rather enamoured.