Retro immersive-sim Fortune’s Run has had its early access development paused due to its sole developer being sentenced to prison.
In an update on Steam, developer Dizzie explained why the game’s other developer left the project and admitted to being sentenced to three years in prison, meaning development is “imploding”.
Dizzie doesn’t explain the nature of the crime, though the developer “lived a very different life” prior to working on this project. The post does specify, though, that the crime was not sexual in nature and the other developer was not involved.
“I’ve been sentenced to prison for the next three years,” wrote Dizzie. “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 five years old now, I have been going through the legal process the whole time I’ve been working on this.