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[Mephansteras]

Got a very interesting backer email just now:

I just wanted to take a moment to thank Joe (AKA Fenicks) for all the hard work, energy, and most importantly financial support he put towards That Which Sleeps over the past 2 years.

Unfortunately we have very different ideas of how this project should be handled moving forward and I've decided to continue developing the project without him. 

[birdy51]

Oh. Oh... Oh my.

[ChairmanPoo]

Yeah, saw it too. Do you think he actually believes he's developing anything?ç

[Cruxador]

Just in case anyone thought the coffin needed another nail.

[Puzzlemaker]

Yeah, I think it's done.  Oh well.  Hopefully someone will eventually make a game like that.

[Xantalos]

This strongly smells of one of those projects that'll end up actually summoning ancient evils in the design of its construction if he stays sane long enough to complete it.

Well, luck to him.

[Hanzoku]

I'm with the crowd that says you can stick a fork in it, this one is finished. It's a major shame, as the concept sounded awesome.

[Xgamer4]

Who wants to bet that the only reason we got this update is because Fenicks stood behind Josh, while smacking a baseball bat into his palm, while Josh typed it out? Purely so there's some kind of substantial evidence that Fenicks has nothing to do with it anymore?

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Guys, this game has been dead for like infinity.

[Mephansteras]

That is not dead which can eternal lie

[Urist McScoopbeard]

That is not dead which can eternal lie

No, stop, this game is legitimately dead. We may find that after it's body has floated down the river in a few years, that new fungoid life has sprouted from this rotting corpse, but I assure you it is dead. Actually dead. Seriously, it was dead when all these troubles began.

[Majestic7]

Sounds to me that they had a beautiful thing going, but Kickstarter stretch goals destroyed it. When the pressures of the project became too much, maybe... the dev guy lost it. It is a huge shame. If they had just stuck to the original plan, maybe it had worked out okay. I hope other devs will look upon this and learn so they don't fall to the same trap.

[Xantalos]

Icarus and all that.

[ChairmanPoo]

Sounds to me that they had a beautiful thing going, but Kickstarter stretch goals destroyed it. When the pressures of the project became too much, maybe... the dev guy lost it. It is a huge shame. If they had just stuck to the original plan, maybe it had worked out okay. I hope other devs will look upon this and learn so they don't fall to the same trap.

I doubt it. They claimed the game was almost done. Since they didnt even fall back on that I'm assuming this was not true. Particularily since after the scandal blew up it turned out noone, not even the businessmpartner, had actually ever seen this "almost done" version.

[Cthulhu]

The game never existed.  What I think probably happened was he faked a lot of the materials genuinely believing he could get the project done if he just got a little more money and time, but it ended up being out of his ballpark.