Remember Irrational Games, the folks behind BioShock 1 and Infinite? Of course you do. When they shut down, Kickstarter was just starting to lose traction and when some members of the team decided to start their own studio, Day For Night Games, and fund the development for their first game, The Black Glove, through it, they failed. After 6 unsuccessful months of trying to find a way for funding the game, it is dead …for now.
Joe Fielder, writer for Bioshock and developer at Day For Night announced in a Blog post, that the work on The Black Glove is now halted and the people who still worked on it are now contributing to other projects, projects that hopefully pay rent.
Back when the Kickstarter failed, but the dreaming was still lucid, they tried getting their game funded by showing a gameplay demo to publishers behind the closed doors of GDC and PAX East. That this was to no avail needn’t be mentioned now, but the reasoning does. According to Joe Fielder, they “didn’t find the perfect glass slipper they were looking for”.
So after “thousands of hours”, this project is dead, but, at least according to this statement by Mr. Fielder, maybe not forever:
So after “thousands of hours”, this project is dead, but, at least according to this statement by Mr. Fielder, maybe not forever:
Design legend Paul Neurath said to us recently, “In my experience, good ideas don’t have expiration dates.”
They’re words we’ve really taken to heart, so we intend to return to The Black Glove later when we can do it right.
Were you looking forward to it? Mabe you even tried to fund it? Let us know in the comments.
