Microsoft shuts down project spark servers

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RJ_Sizzle said:

Turkish said:
It was just never clear what MS wanted to do with this, the reveal showed the game being controlled with Kinect https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m37sVEgJrOA

It wasn't a passion project. Ori and Cuphead, those are passion projects.

That's because Ori and Cuphead were projects acquired by MS in their early stages. They already had a vision before getting MS backing. Project Spark never felt like that. Plus people didn't seem take to the game creation tools as naturally as they should have.  It was a curve that kept people from going all in on it. MS's interest in it likely waned once they bought Mojang.

I know that, it was likely developed because some suits saw the success of minecraft and the genre and decided that Xbox should have its own take on it.

Both LBP and Minecraft were small little indie projects that grew, these type of games are the best when they start at grass roots, not when it's dictated as a reactionary move.