Campo Santo, now owned by Valve, maintains that the game is not canceled, although part of the team is broken up in different parts of the company.
The creators of Firewatch, Campo Santo, do not throw in the towel, but are focused on other works. In the Valley of Gods, the project they had in development before their acquisition by Valve, is not canceled. That does not mean that production has resumed, since as reported by Chris Remo, formerly of the studio and currently integrated in Valve, development is "paralyzed for the moment." An important part of the team has worked on Half-Life: Alyx, the new installment of the saga, designed for virtual reality. However, the fact that the game has been released has not changed the situation of In the Valley of Gods.
“We were working on it when Campo Santo joined Valve. Something we discovered over time is that in contrast to working on this video game, Valve was a place with many teams and projects underway. ” According to the developer, the events happened naturally, there was no specific moment in which the course of what was to happen later was decided.
"People have been working on other things within the company. I have worked in Underlords a little bit. I have been developing Half-Life: Alyx for a while. We simply came to a conclusion as a team. ” Remo explains that at one point they discovered that the studio's employees were dispersed in different projects, so they made the decision to freeze work.
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Other statements in that direction
It is not the first time that this situation has been referred to in the study. The version by Jade Rodkin, co-founder of Campo Santo, is similar: Some of us started by helping out and have since become full-time members of the project. ” His first-person gaming experience was valuable in shaping Alyx: "From the moment we are part of Valve, it becomes clear that there is a lot of very valuable work that needs to be done in Half-Life: Alyx."
Half-Life: Alyx is available on PC, although it works exclusively with the virtual reality glasses compatible with Steam VR.
Source | PCGamesN
