Indie studio opens up to share canceled Magic School project

Canceled video games are typically shrouded successful secrecy, the benignant of happening we lone larn astir via leaks good aft the fact. But Dinosaur Polo Club, the indie workplace down the minimalist strategy games Mini Metro and Mini Motorways, has travel retired and revealed a recently-canceled task successful a refreshing bout of transparency.

The crippled was codenamed Magic School, and it was an effort for the workplace to subdivision retired from the clean, streamlined experiences it has go known for. The problem? As the conception grew successful scope, it became wide to the workplace that a overmuch bigger squad would beryllium needed, which led to them abandoning it.

You tin get a consciousness of what it would’ve been similar successful the footage above, arsenic good arsenic the conception images successful the assemblage below. (There’s adjacent much over connected Artstation.)

“Ultimately, we simply did not spot a way guardant for Magic School,” studio CEO Amie Wolken said successful a statement. “However, we inactive wanted to stock the astonishing enactment the squad had produced implicit the people of prototyping.”

One metallic lining: nary of the squad moving connected the crippled are being fto go. Instead, the workplace says that the program is “to redirect their skills to the caller projects wrong their celebrated Mini series.”

While it whitethorn beryllium disappointing that Magic School won’t ever motorboat — it definite sounds chill to maine — it’s fantastic to spot a workplace beryllium truthful unfastened successful specified a tight-lipped industry. And for those who worked connected the game, it’s a large bonus to beryllium capable to really stock the enactment they did connected it, adjacent if there’s nary last merchandise for radical to play through.

“So overmuch large crippled improvement ne'er sees the airy of time due to the fact that studios are often shy astir sharing erstwhile things don’t spell arsenic planned,” added Wolken. “Instead, we are choosing to observe what we learned on the mode and the unthinkable enactment from our team.”