Rogue Ant Simulator devs blow budget on 'liquor and strippers'
The video below is a tough listen. In it, Eric Tereshinski resigns as lead programmer on Ant Simulator after discovering the extent of his long-term friends' spending. If it's not obvious, 'long-term' can now be swapped for 'former'.
"A year and a half ago, I signed an LLC agreement with them," Tereshinski says. "I trusted them and they had been my friends for 11 years. That means that resigning, and therefore cancelling the development of Ant Simulator, is really the only option available to me right now."
Worse, Tereshinski claims that he's legally obligated to take any videos that were created as part of his work for ETeeski LLC down from his channel, including all Ant Simulator videos and a popular, Kickstarter-funded series of game development tutorials.
"They went over the contract line by line with me and I reviewed the whole thing twice," Tereshinski comments in response to calls for a lawsuit. "I just didn't realize they had protected themselves, screwed me (like the fact that they listed themselves as consultants, so they aren't legally obligated to work on anything, but still have the rights to spend money etc.), and I had no idea what their plan was until it was too late."
People who pre-ordered Ant Simulator can expect an email to try to arrange a refund. If Tereshinski's account is accurate, it's a catastrophically bleak situation. We covered Ant Simulator in September, and it looked like a promising, unique survival game, now squashed.
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SeamPosted:
DeluxeHazard Tereshinski's "friends" are complete jerks. The fact that they basically stole the money for such scumbag purchases is so disgusting, and the fact that they are not getting punished is even worse. The hassle the Tereshinski has to go through now for their selfishness is completely unjust.
It is sickening, they essentially ruined his chance to create something which could have had potentially large upsides.
DeluxeHazardPosted:
Tereshinski's "friends" are complete jerks. The fact that they basically stole the money for such scumbag purchases is so disgusting, and the fact that they are not getting punished is even worse. The hassle the Tereshinski has to go through now for their selfishness is completely unjust.
AR15Posted:
It really sucks that kickstarter allows for things like this to go on. I hadn't heard of this game until now, but I am sure that all the backers that they had are really upset now not only because they don't get the game they paid for, but also have to deal with the hassle of going back to them and getting a refund in order. Just sucks.
RobbedPosted:
That's ridiculous! Simulators are really boring and i couldn't see this game being a blockbuster anyway.
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