Sadness [Wii - Cancelled]

e3 2006 Trailer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1a7fX3pOuc

this was cancelled? damnit!!!

This is awful news. I have been excited for this for a long time. Crap.

DAMN! I wish they didnt cancell this game! I soo wanted to play it! >< Not far. Ohh maybe we could ask (we as in fans who wanted to play this game) publishers who do Horror games!

This game does look really interesting. If we are lucky, we can use the Way Back Machine to go to the games website! Anyone remember the site’s name?

@ForWhomTheBellTolls: I am not sure about the websites but I shall have a good look around and I’ll post anything if I found anything.

UGH!!!That game looked really good. It probably would have been the first wii game with good graphics. I hate that its not coming out!!!

OMG. If you look up sadness and really research it you’ll find the trailer was just a crock of crap. The person that wrote the script for it, Adam Artur Antolski, had interview with N-Europe. When asked “What work did you actually do in your time there – was there any progress with actual development, or was Sadness still in pre-production?” he replies “When [I was] contacted, there was only a title – Sadness. In about three of four days I come up with some ideas, which evolved into a “script”. We actually wanted to make a interactive movie, and there was couple of other ideas as well.
When I was leaving, there was only one 3D object – some minecart I believe, which says a lot for me, most of the time the Sadness project was science-fiction.” THEN he’s asked ” In the space of a year then, and despite that trailer for the title, the only phase of actual development completed was a 3D minecart?” AND HE SAYS ” For the actual game – I can’t really recall that we’d made something else – but we had worked hard on concept design, and script and stuff like that. Despite the fact we disagreed a lot, for example about Alexander, son of the main heroine. I was against including him into a game – I believed that most gamers wouldn’t really be interested in such a mother-son dynamic, and I thought it wouldn’t make the game any more challenging or deep, just more annoying. Especially as, in the early days, Alexander was a crybaby, and the gamer would be forced to taking care of his every single need, every time he was scared or frightened. It is an interesting idea when you listen to it, but not very playable – it slows action, story, and makes identification with the heroine more difficult.”

Obviously, the tensions and arguments caused progress just not to happen, thus its canceled.

Also I researched Piotr Bielatowicz, the game designer, to find his new project. He is working on the iphone or some app on it called sexy maid service. This was the man who was making the statements about the game such as, “We are aiming at completely intuitive behaviour of the player-just as in life. Every choice a player makes is essential – if you experience traumatic events in your life, they are with you all the time. This will be the same in Sadness. We want the player to feel that he is participating in events, not merely playing a game.”

So who knows what was really going on.

The site you are thinking of for the game was Nibris.