The Legend of Zelda-like Midora was successfully funded on Kickstarter back in July of last year, but it seems like the developers at Epic Minds have been running into issues.

The game’s director, Mhyre, took to the game’s blog to announce that development on Midora had to be put on hold. Here’s the relevant part of the blog post:

So why have we not enough money? Developers. By developers, I mean programmers and artists. We simply need more. We hired another amazing artist, Ian Schlaepfer, in September and thought we could achieve everything we aimed to do. We were unfortunately wrong. While most of the assets for Early Access have been roughly finished for some time now, we still do not have a satisfying demo.

Midora earned near $75,000 from 3,359 backers when it was funded – that’s a number you can’t really forget. Mhyre goes further into why the game had to be put on hold:

Yes, Midora on Steam Early Access was our plan to get a better budget, to hire more people to work on the game. We are not bankrupt, but we know for sure we do not have enough to complete this game. We also do not have what it takes to release Midora on Steam Early Access in a satisfying state. We were in the same situation a few months ago already, but we still had hope to stabilize with Early Access and then just keep going. Continuing our work today on Midora means putting everything at risk (the team and the project) with a result impossible to predict. We feared something like that would happen, which is why we’ve been searching for solutions early to solve that problem.

So here’s where things get interesting: Epic Minds have quickly rescinded their decision to put the game on hold. They confirmed the news on their blog:

Midora’s development is back on track.
 
After much debate and thinking, Midora’s development will resume soon. A Kickstarter update explaining why and Early Access news are coming soon.

It makes you wonder, what made them change their minds? Their original post sounded quite dire, like something along the lines of potentially bankrupting the entire company.

We’ll keep you guys posted.