The creator of Secret Level says he “see[s]no reason why we wouldn’t publish” the Concord episode, so who’s going to tell him?

Amazon’s animated video game anthology series Secret Level is launching later this month, and even though it no longer exists, the Concord episode is still coming.

Ever since it became official that Concord had performed so poorly that the studio that created it would close and the game would remain offline forever, there’s been an awkward elephant in the room: it has an episode in Secret Level. Amazon made it clear that the episode will still air, and in a recent interview with GamesRadar, series creators Tim Miller and Dave Willson shared that there was never any doubt about it. “It never occurred to us, I mean, Amazon never suggested it, and we didn’t either because why?” Miller said of the possibility that the episode could have been cancelled.

“I mean, we have games in the mix that are no longer like Unreal Tournament. This one, which didn’t come out, was different, of course, but the end result is that we have an interesting story with a beautiful piece of animation in which people he put a lot of work into it. It’s hard to produce. And I don’t see any reason why we wouldn’t release it for the fans. I know people like to point and say, ‘What are they doing?’ Or, ‘Why would they do this?’

Miller went on to note that they are simply “proud of the episode and it looks great” and that he finds it unfortunate that the game no longer exists. “[The developers] They were good people and tried to do the best they could. But it doesn’t affect our desire to put this out into the world where we worked very hard and so did they and many artists.

Wilson also noted that part of the spirit of the series was to include past, present, and future games, although I think in this particular case, Concord’s past is still fairly recent and overall still quite disturbing. Still, at least the episode could give us a glimpse of what the future could have been, even if it’s a future that not many people wanted.