{"id":56724,"date":"2013-07-29T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T08:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=56724"},"modified":"2013-07-29T10:29:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T08:29:41","slug":"fez-2-cancelled-dev-phil-fish-quits-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/56724-fez-2-cancelled-dev-phil-fish-quits-industry","title":{"rendered":"Fez 2 cancelled, dev Phil Fish quits industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After fans of indie games rejoiced to the news of Fez 2 (announced at E3 2013), creator Phil Fish has dramatically cancelled the project.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s with a heavy heart that we announce that Fez 2 has been cancelled and is no longer in development,&#8221; said developer Polytron on Twitter. &#8220;We apologise for the disappointment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before the cancellation tweet, Fez creator Phil Fish said on his personal twitter account: &#8220;I&#8217;m getting out of games because I choose not to put up with this abuse anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The community speculated that Fish\u2019s tweet was in response to GameTrailers producer Marcus &#8220;Annoyed Gamer&#8221; Beer calling Fish a &#8220;tosspot&#8221; and &#8220;f****** hipster&#8221; after Fish refused to comment on the Xbox One\u2019s self-publishing policy for indie devs; but Fish squashed that idea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To be clear, i&#8217;m not cancelling FEZ II because some boorish f**k said something stupid,&#8221; tweeted Fish. &#8220;I\u2019m doing it to get out of games.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A bit of a disappointment to fans, as the first Fez was a unique platforming puzzle game that brilliantly showcased what appeared to be a flat 2D world, that players were able to manipulate in a horizontal 3D plane, rotating the game world to solve puzzles.<\/p>\n<h6>Source: <a title=\"Eurogamer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h6>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56705-clan-owner-charged-in-global-bank-hacking-scheme.html\">Clan owner charged in global bank hacking scheme<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/56703-battlefield-4-gives-amd-hardware-a-performance-boost.html\">Battlefield 4 gives AMD hardware a performance boost<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/56708-next-gen-advances-12k-resolution-and-sa-gaming-news.html\">Next-gen advances, 12K resolution and SA gaming news<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/56699-staggering-12k-resolution-eyefinity-pc-gaming-setup-showcased.html\">Staggering 12K resolution Eyefinity gaming showcased<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Platforming-puzzle sequel dropped as creator steps away from games industry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":55217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2206,10330,10833,2623,3461],"class_list":["post-56724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-fez","tag-fez-2","tag-fish","tag-phil-fish","tag-polytron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56725,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56724\/revisions\/56725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}