Golden Axe: Reborn was a proposed hack and slash video game and reboot of Sega's Golden Axe series.
Reborn was developed over the course of two weeks in 2012 by Sega Studios Australia. Development included a crunch schedule of 14-hour workdays.
As part of its 60th anniversary celebration, Sega released the Reborn prototype on Windows under the title Golden Axed: A Cancelled Prototype on October 18, 2020.
Gameplay
editDevelopment
editReborn was developed by a small team at Sega Studios Australia over the course of two weeks in 2012. Development was led by programmer Tim Dawson and designer Sanatana Mishra.
Dawson and the team agreed to create a prototype in just two weeks because of the opportunities it could lead to.
A week and a half of the development included a crunch schedule of 14-hour workdays. Dawson recalled: "we had a high target to hit in an unreasonably short timeframe, and I wanted to rise to that challenge. No one told me I couldn't go home, I was just asked to stack a million bricks in a day and agreed to try."
In retrospect, Dawson referred to his experience working on Reborn as "my personal nexus of nightmare hours, inept management, industry realisations and heroics achieved with a small team under unreasonable conditions".
Aftermath
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editReferences
edit- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeAg1E9Kl8M&feature=emb_title
- https://www.polygon.com/2020/10/16/21519461/golden-axed-crunch-developers-sega-apologizes-golden-axe-reborn-free-pc
- https://www.polygon.com/2013/8/28/4670298/sega-australias-pitch-to-resurrect-classic-sega-franchises
- http://kotaku.com/segas-crazy-pitch-for-modern-remakes-of-its-classic-ga-1205250701
- https://www.engadget.com/sega-golden-axe-crunch-indie-interview-190355970.html
- https://www.pcgamer.com/the-golden-axed-designers-dont-have-fond-memories-of-making-segas-prototype/
- https://twitter.com/ironicaccount/status/1316622918248349696