Cloud Meadow controversy

[kazerniel]

The game is on Steam now:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1223750/Cloud_Meadow/

There has been some controversy around its production, when in 2016 part of the developer team of a game called Breeding Season accused Cloud Meadow's developer of running off with their art assets and half their money due to unfavourable contracts, which led to the cancellation of the Breeding Season game.

Original reporting:
Sex Game Cancelled After Taking In Five Figures A Month On Patreon

Another reporting with more viewpoints, including that of the accused developer:
The Other Side of the Breeding Season Controversy[gameranx.com]

Edit: spelling

[Occular Malice]

Read through all the articles as well as just googling "cloud meadow breeding season". A lot of opinion articles on *what happened* but both of the main developers have different stories to tell (with some overlap).

Seems like a typical project that got out of control and a victim of it's own success (tagging anything with anime like art and erotica is just a recipe to bring all the boys to the yard). I've been in software development for 30+ years and projects are generally mismanaged because they're run by people that have no idea what they're getting into or how to react to things like this when they go off the rails.

There's a gray area here in this instance regarding the money involved and who got paid, who didn't, where the patreon money went, etc. with everyone just pointing fingers at everyone else. Since this looks like the people involved didn't know how deep they were into it, I doubt this will get resolved to any real end as the accountability and tracking of the money is long gone.

Yeah I wouldn't give these guys my money even if I were into these sort of games but I'm not. YMMV.