![]() You can watch the trailer for the game here: It is expected to be released in 2021. Goodbye Volcano High is coming to PS5, PS4, and Steam sometime in 2022. Fanart of one of the characters in the upcoming PlayStation/Steam adventure/dating simulation game Goodbye Volcano High. In the end, after some clever reverse engineering of elements that already existed, they’ve found a story they are really happy with that is in “a place where the story feels fully and confidently own.” You can read the full interview with the Sweet Baby team about the process of rebooting a narrative in progress. Kim Belair, Camerin Wild, and Paula Rogers were tasked with sifting through the pieces of the existing narrative to figure out how they could rewrite things while accounting for all the pieces of the game that were already deep in development-animations completed, gameplay sequences mapped, assets developed, etc. The new Goodbye Volcano High narrative team comes from Sweet Baby Inc. While discussion of the narrative reboot doesn’t explicitly mention the controversy surrounding Gray, she does not appear to be writing on the game anymore, and the timing of seeking a new narrative team for Goodbye Volcano High lines up with its June 2020 announcement and subsequent controversy. It was initially met with some controversy due to writer Kate Gray’s history with a controversial article on Kotaku that included pornographic depictions of fictional characters who were minors ( link to former Kotaku EIC Stephen Totillo’s apology for the article). Goodbye Volcano High, a narrative anime drama about a group of dinosaurs, was first announced at a PlayStation showcase in June 2020. We love making this game and we’re lucky we have a chance to make it! We really appreciate you and your support. Thank you to those who have been supporting us since day one and to those who have joined us along the way. We love the community that we’ve fostered through developing Goodbye Volcano High, and we hope it isn’t too much of a bummer to have to wait a little longer for the dino drama. We don’t want to crunch, and we don’t want to put ourselves in stressful situations to finish the game by 2021 when we can take a little more time. It’s been a really hard year for many reasons, and the mental and physical health of the team has to come first. So we are making what we’re sure is by now an expected announcement: Goodbye Volcano High will be a 2022 title, not a 2021 one. Those two factors have delayed our release timeline. ![]() Regardless, the new release date is Summer 2023, when it’ll be coming to PC (Steam) and PlayStation formats.In addition to Global Events™️, 2020 saw us rebooting the narrative of our game. It also sounds like it touches on some story content that needs to be done properly, as it “contains mature representations of queer teen life, strong language, mentions of drug and alcohol use, death, and sexuality”. Call it whatever you want, just wishlist it!Ĭomments are asking why a “visual novel” is taking so long, but the game is fully voice acted, starring Lachlan Watson ( The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) and features hand-drawn art and animations, with the aim to make it “like a playable cartoon”. ![]() Goodbye Volcano High: a hybrid cinematic narrative/rhythm game/coming of age/interactive movie experience. So the world’s ending-do you tell your crush your feelings? Fix your messed-up family dynamic? Write the best song ever ever ever? Try to do it all? Just Fang’s luck: they finally figure out what they want out of life, and now the world’s about to explode. Goodbye Volcano High is a story-driven, choice-based cinematic adventure game about personal growth, acceptance, and the power of community. The YouTube description is pretty vague, too, saying: The trailer doesn’t give a lot away really, showing a lot of dialogue and a bit of the visuals in action, something that looks like a rhythm game (maybe) and some dialogue choices.
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