Team Meat has announced that their upcoming indie title Super Meat Boy Forever has been delayed and the new release date will be announced later. The initial plan to release Super Meat Boy Forever was in this month however the developers need more time with the game and because of that, the title has been delayed until work is complete on the game.
A release date has not been announced at this point and the developers mentioned in their press release that the new release date cannot be announced at this time because they want to take their time with the game development because it is actually very complex to make a Super Meat Boy game. They will announce the new release date when they think the title is complete and players can actually purchase the title.
Rock Paper Shotgun got some time to chat with the developers of Super Meat Boy Forever at PAX East last weekend and they revealed the delay along with the cause of the delay to them. Tommy Refenes was there at the scene and he told Rock, Paper, Shotgun that the title has been delayed for some time although it is coming along nicely.
His words to Rock Paper Shotgun were:
Oh yeah, I think it’s in a good place. We were originally going to hit April, but we’re not going to hit April, so now we’re going to say after April, because I don’t want to say May and then have to go ‘Oh, I didn’t hit May.’ The next thing we’ll announce is the day you can actually buy it, rather than ‘around here’ because that’s really a lot of pressure to be like, ‘Oh crap, now I’ve got to tell everybody.’ I’m glad I don’t have Kickstarter backers or have taken money from anyone because oh man, that would be terrible.
But the game itself, the only thing that’s holding us up, I mean it’s the same thing that always holds us up, is content. With Super Meat Boy Forever, levels are randomly generated, but they’re randomly generated in a way that we sort of brute force it, and every level has a pool of 100 smaller levels that we smash together eight of them to make a level. So all that math, that’s like 7200 levels that we’re making. And then I wrote a ridiculous story and hired a bunch of animators, so we have like 30 minutes of real high quality animated cutscenes that are being done, so it’s all just like, we’re almost there, yeah. But I’ve very much underestimated when I made that trailer – because I was like, April’s far away. It’s far away but not so far, but it definitely wasn’t far enough away.
We would love to see Super Meat Boy and Bandage Girl return for the second time in Super Meat Boy Forever and we hope that the development is complete soon so the developers can finally release the next title in the franchise. The first title in the franchise Super Meat Boy was released back in 2010 and it is high time we get some more Super Meat Boy action.
Super Meat Boy will be released on PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC via Epic Games Store and Steam after a year. A confirmed release date is not yet known.
