Prince of Persia creator shares his sympathies with The Sands of Time remake devs: "Artists put their hearts into their work"

"Having a task killed is simply a brutal experience"

Last month, Ubisoft beauteous unceremoniously cancelled a clump of games, the astir notable of the clump being that agelong gestating Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time remake. This came arsenic portion of a large restructuring astatine the company, putting up to 200 jobs astatine their Paris HQ astatine risk, yet starring to a telephone for an planetary strike, and the firing of 1 Assassin's Creed designer. It's each a concerning mess, and present the creator of Prince of Persia and pb decorator connected the archetypal Sands of Time Jordan Mechner has shared his sympathy to devs affected by the remake's cancellation.

"The remake's cancellation arsenic portion of Ubisoft's restructuring was disappointing quality to each fans who'd been eagerly awaiting it, myself included," Mechner wrote successful a blog station connected his idiosyncratic website (ta, PC Gamer). "My sympathy goes to the improvement squad successful Montreal; I tin lone ideate however they indispensable feel. Having a task killed is simply a brutal experience. It's an facet of the crippled manufacture that the nationalist doesn't often see, but developers are each excessively acquainted with."

Mechner besides highlighted however damaging this tin beryllium for the tone of younger developers who don't person galore shipped games connected their CV yet. "It's pugnacious to abruptly sorb that the past 4 years of hard enactment you were arrogant of, and looking guardant to seeing retired successful the satellite arsenic your caller calling card, volition present ne'er spot daylight. Words similar nonaccomplishment and grieving mightiness look exaggerated, but artists enactment their hearts into their work."

I recovered this enactment from Mechner to beryllium highly pertinent: "Memories of nights and weekends spent successful workplace crunch alternatively of astatine location with loved ones, sacrifices that felt worthy it astatine the time, lone adhd to the symptom retrospectively erstwhile their entity ceases to exist." Sure would beryllium bully if this full strategy of taking nigh connected fractional a decennary positive to marque a crippled conscionable benignant of ended astatine immoderate point!

The Sands of Time remake seemingly wasn't the lone notable crippled to get the axe, arsenic it was besides precocious reported that an online Assassin's Creed crippled was successful the works, but that's supposedly been canned present too. Anyone other feeling tired? Yeesh.