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Dev Behind RPG Shooter Rated 90 Percent On Steam Goes To Prison (kotaku.com)

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The creator of Fortune’s Run, who goes by Dizzie on Steam, announced Tuesday night that her past had caught up with her. “I’ve been sentenced to prison for the next 3 years,” she wrote on the game’s Steam page. “It’s a long story, but I’ve lived a very different life before I was a game developer, and I wasn’t living very well. My case is about 5 years old now, I have been going through the legal process the whole time I’ve been working on this. I have finally been found guilty and sentenced, and I’m going away next month.”

“It’s a shame, but it’s the consequences of my actions,” the developer continued. “I was a very violent person and I hurt a lot of people in my life. Unfortunately, the sentence isn’t going to help with that at all, but I guess we all know that. So the game isn’t TOTALLY dead, but unfortunately due to even further bad things happening, it’s unclear what will happen.”

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago

Average early access dev

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Anyone know what she did?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They seem to allude to a violent crime, as they said they "were a different more violent person in the past."

[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Further clarification from Steam :

I do not have a sex crime. I'm not going to go into specific charges and such or tell you the story. What I did was wrong and that's all you need to know.

She's right, this is not really anyone's business.

[+] [email protected] -29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well no sex crime was kinda obvious. But just because its not a sex crime doesn't mean its not a violent crime. Obviously not murder because 3 years for a murder would be crazy, but I was originally assuming some kind of physical assault or battery (possibly domestic violence), or something like serious injury while committing a crime / brandishing or discharging a weapon while committing a crime, such as armed robbery where someone got hurt.

It is strange that they claim to be a different person but they never turned themselves in or plead guilty or anything I guess? Like, I feel like a person who has decided to change would get that cleared up expeditiously, probably courts might be more lenient with the sentencing in that case.

"It isn't anyone's business," but I mean, they are talking about it more. And there is a media outlet (admittedly Kotaku, lol) making an article about it. If it was a crime committed in the USA, thats public information, as is the court proceeding so if anyone knew them or wanted to know, they could legally get that information regardless. Seems like the developer should just not say anything and/or contact a lawyer for a public statement about it.

People are going to be curious. People are going to speculate. Thats how people work. Its going to come out at some point, there is no reason to try to obscure it now. If they really are different then they go in, serve their time, probably get out early on good behaviour, and everything goes back to the way it was more or less. Can't change what happened now.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

No.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I only clicked the article to find that out and it wasn't included. Annoying.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Scamming people into investing in an early access game with no intent of finishing it.

ahem...

Just to be clear, I'm joking

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Is this how I find out that other people find finding out that someone's going to prison less normal than I do?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is this how I find out that other people find 'finding out that someone's going to prison' less normal than I do?

There. Now my brain can process this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

Yes! Sorry!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

what ?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Should take a screenshot and post to the "aneurysm posts" community.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

After reading it multiple times, I understand now what was meant, they just lacked proper punctuation.

The OP is surprised, that other people don't find it normal that people go to prison.

So a difference in life experience, because I also don't know anybody who went to prison.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago

ah, right. Yes. I'll make sure to call you when I need a complex parser

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think OP is actually asking if this is a normal way to find out someone is going to prison. Not that people do go to prison, but hearing the news via gaming stuff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

No, I saw the screenshot in the article of "going to PRISON?!?!?!" and thought, you know, I don't think that's all that schocking in itself. Granted it had the look of Tumblr about it and Tumblr's signature move is overreacting, in hindsight.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

The punctuation is correct. The wording is just confusing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm laughing quite hard now but I do apologise. Hopefully this makes it clearer:

"Is this how I find out that
- "other people find
  - "finding out that someone's going to prison"
- less normal than I do?""

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I'm slowly wrapping my head around it, the indentation helps !

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

This has been an interesting game with an interesting story.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What are the chances the other half of the dev team had all the technical know how and prison just became a really convenient cover for a bait and switch of an EAG?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think that it's more likely that the other half of the dev team probably knew about the charges, saw this sentence likely coming and didn't want to sink more time into the project. Which, I mean, I can understand if it's a two person company. If you're doing a company like this, you're betting that the product is going to be successful, and "maybe half the company will vanish" is kind of a huge risk factor.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago

from the articles it's made pretty clear that the other dev just wasn't up to it after multiple complications from a botched surgery.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Drama! Damn this game looks right up my alley. Says it's a 2 person team, I wonder if development will continue.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

According to the announcement, the other developer quit game development some time ago and isn't active anymore.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The other dev is the ain't devs wife & had to take time off to rest after a botched surgery. Whether they return is up to where there health is but the focus is getting better. Can cut out the kotako fluff & get all the deets from the games' steam updates section.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The other dev/wife did QA and part of the mapping. It's a bit hard to finish a game without your programmer/designer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah maybe but I imagine she'll deffo return when she can yo do what she can.