Comments on: Japanese YouTuber’s $320k crowdfunded indie passion project stuck in production limbo after dismissal of game director

By: Saphira

Saphira — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:30:02 +0000

Replying to Abby bcuz I was so pissed off bro doesn’t understand the struggle. I’m a solo developer myself and if you think we’re magically able to learn coding we wouldn’t have to spend money to hire programmers.

By: Saphira

Saphira — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:26:56 +0000

There’s nothing wrong with that? You’re the real dumbass. Acting like taking on an entirely foreign topic is the easiest thing ever. Smh

By: Horoshi

Horoshi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:52:46 +0000

The likelihood of it being just one major scheme to rip off a lot of people so they can get money from them as a bigger chance than the director actually just dropping out if (or they dropped out because of it). If you know anything about these people. They crowdfunded a fake project as is.. it really needs to be looked into as well. Gonna remain anonymous though

By: Diru

Diru — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 12:58:33 +0000

For three years he had no idea of the project’s progress? That’s unfortunate. He should have fired the guy after 3 months.

By: Alienatedlabor

Alienatedlabor — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 06:55:21 +0000

Yeah that was my thinking too, what does “unable to access” the files mean? download Unity and get to work.

By: Moe

Moe — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 01:02:23 +0000

Never put higher expectation on an indie studio

By: Breakout

Breakout — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:30:46 +0000

My bad, I ment to reply to Lorenzo. Never commented on a site like this before. If I ever come back I’ll make sure not to make that mistake again!

By: Breakout

Breakout — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:29:45 +0000

So, do a deltarune? That’s a fair idea. But I’d rather not have to worry about two games that only pop up once in a blue moon with amazing gameplay and story telling.

By: Haro

Haro — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:12:30 +0000

That’s tough I hope they can pull through and it is a lesson to hire important leaders that align with your vision. I hope this is not an excuse to not ship the game due to funding or lack of funding. To be honest the amount of money they raise is pretty low so perhaps he was offering equity or a percentage of profits from the game to cover the remaining of the salary which caused the disagreement and it sucks because the game might not see the light of day because of that. Which goes back to proper planning and funding if they outlined a clear pay structure if that was indeed the problem this could be avoided or the project would have just not even started which may have been a good thing because now all the people who back this project may not get anything.

By: Abby

Abby — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 09:10:14 +0000

Dumbass guy is like a restaurant owner who cannot cook. No wonder the chef is overly arrogant. Learn to code, dumbass.

By: Lorenzo

Lorenzo — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:24:19 +0000

If i were them I would try to get a chapter or two done and put it in Early Access on Steam to try and raise funds. But only if they can finish it.