{"id":23613,"date":"2013-07-29T07:35:50","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T14:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=23613"},"modified":"2013-07-29T07:35:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T14:35:50","slug":"phil-fish-says-goodbye-and-goes-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/07\/29\/phil-fish-says-goodbye-and-goes-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Fish says goodbye and goes home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"23613\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/fish_swimming.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/fish_swimming.jpg\" alt=\"fish_swimming\" width=\"600\" height=\"326\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23614\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Phil Fish, creator of Fez, says he&#8217;s quit making games and canceled development of Fez II. The dramatic event occurred over the weekend when Fish abruptly posted his goodbye on his <a href=\"http:\/\/polytroncorporation.com\/fez-ii-cancelled\">Polytron<\/a> site.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>FEZ II is cancelled.<br \/>\ni am done.<br \/>\ni take the money and run.<br \/>\nthis is as much as i can stomach.<br \/>\nthis isn&#8217;t the result of any one thing, but the end of a long, bloody campaign.<\/p>\n<p>you win.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The outspoken Fez developer canceled Fez II following an episode of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gametrailers.com\/full-episodes\/roj70m\/invisible-walls-everything-and-the-kitchen-sink\">Invisible Walls<\/a> on GameTrailers in which host Marcus Beer called Fish names because he refused to comment on Microsoft&#8217;s Xbox One indie self-publishing program. After the broadcast, Fish went on Twitter and told Beer to &#8220;compare your life to mine and then kill yourself.&#8221; Fish was in turn attacked on Twitter by fans of GameTrailers and gamers that expressed outrage over his comment and for his past behavior.<\/p>\n<p>For his part, Fish <a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"23613\" href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/t6cwH4L.jpg\"<\/a>maintains<\/a> that his quitting the industry was not motivated because one person &#8220;said something stupid&#8221; but so he can &#8220;get out of games.&#8221; He confirmed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2013\/07\/27\/fez-2-canceled\/\">Joystiq<\/a> that Fez II is really canceled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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