Dear Stick Soldiers 3 Fans,

I have decided to declare the SS3 project, in its current form, a failure and as such I have cancelled it. This decision was made with the unanimous agreement of the SS3 development team.

We have decided to publish a project post-mortem (added 1/3/08). This will explain our decision in more detail, and be a valuable source of advice to any aspiring game developers. When it’s done I will link it here and announce it on the forum. After that we will be taking a long, much-needed break from anything Stick Soldiers related.

In the future there is a possibility of starting on a new Stick Soldiers game, but it would be very different to the one we’ve been working on. For the moment, though, we’re not going to do any more than acknowledge the possibility.

Internally I’ve thanked the development team for all their hard work, but I will take this opportunity to thank them again publicly: Thank you, guys. We all have personal projects (as well as work and university) that we’ve neglected to various degrees and we’ll be spending more time on those projects for now.

I’d like to thank the community for all the support they have given us. For the foreseeable future I’ll be leaving the Stick Soldiers Forum and the Stick Soldiers Files online, so feel free to stick around. You’ll find a discussion thread regarding the cancelling of Stick Soldiers 3 on the forums.

On behalf of the SS3 development team,
Cheers,
- Andrew Russell

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The old website is still around, too.