Update: Developer Dee Keyes has confirmed to RPS that they’re no longer part of the Skyblivion team.
“My departure and choice to write my statement came when I’d discovered that another one of our longtime volunteers, KettleWitch, had left over the same issues,” they continued. They claim KettleWitch’s effort to voice concerns about the communication on the project and the team’s ability to hit the announced release date goal was met with “no real concern” and that when the modder subsequently left the Skyblivion team “no announcement was made to the team and we weren’t even made aware that one of our old guard had left.”
“This was the push for me to finally leave since it seemed like any attempt for me to do the same would just be met with the same apathy,” Keyes said. “I know to [Skyblivion project lead] Rebelzize this has come out of nowhere, but there were more than enough warning signs that were ignored. If our leaving shocks them into listening to the rest of the developers’ feelings then some good will have come from it.
“I’d also like to stress [that] my desire for the project delaying isn’t so that we can keep adding feature creeps, but just to get the minimum viable product done without breaking our backs over it. It’s a sad day in the industry when even passion projects are rushed and induce crunch.”
Original story continues below:
A long-standing member of unofficial Oblivion remake Skyblivion‘s development team has claimed the project is being “rushed out the door”, and that its previously stated 2025 release goal is “pointless and unachievable”.
These claims were made by modder Dee Keyes in a Twitter post put up over the same weekend that the Skyrim mod showed off its opening fifteen minutes as part of Elder Scrolls modding showcase Creation Mod Con. Keyes is currently listed as a world designer on the team page of Skyblivion’s website, having previously served as level design department lead, and has appeared in the likes of this dev diary posted to project lead Kyle ‘Rebelzize’ Rebel’s YouTube channel in 2021.
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