Ant Simulator game canceled after devs blow Kickstarter funds on
strippers and booze
Hayden Dingman | @haydencd
Games reporter, PCWorld - Feb 1, 2016 11:08 AM
Over the years, we’ve heard of more than a few Kickstarter projects
vanishing into the void, collapsing, running out of money, and et
cetera, but Ant Simulator has to be hands-down the weirdest saga yet.
Over the weekend, lead programmer Eric Tereshinski resigned from the
project after finding out his business partners “were secretly stealing
company money.”
More specifically, “They had secretly spent the overwhelming majority of
both our Kickstarter money and the Ant Simulator investment money on
liquor, restaurants, bars, and...even strippers,” says Tereshinski.
“My ex-business partners directly said to me, ‘If you release Ant
Simulator without us, I will sue you.’ Resigning and canceling Ant
Simulator is really the only option available to me right now.”
Tereshinski continues in the video.
Essentially what happened is that early on, Tereshinski signed an LLC
with two of his long-time friends—and, as he says in a YouTube comment:
“They went over the contract line by line with me and I reviewed
the whole thing twice. 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.”
Armchair lawyers have suggested Tereshinski sue or counter-sue his
former friends for breaching their contract, but he claims the most
likely outcome is “that things end up more or less the same as they are
now”—minus a bunch of money for lawyer fees. So he’s walking away.
It’s neither the largest Kickstarter we’ve seen implode nor the most
notable, but damn, it’s certainly the most sordid. Backers can
apparently expect an email about refunds soon. Best of luck to
Tereshinski going forward.
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