I backed this for over 2 years, and was one of the OG backers. This never took off, and what was promised, never happened. It was a cool idea, if only it took off and wasn't full of empty promises.
Yes, this is true. The developer leading this project
Em Elle turned out to be a complete scammer. As I had said before in
this post, I was part of the development team with a few other artists and coders, and also did the PR work posting about this game on various forums and socials. I was gullible enough back then to believe in this guy's idea of this project, but it turned out to be nothing other than a cash grab scheme using the latest FOTM stuff. He also got sympathy from us by telling a story about his sick wife and son, which ended up being a complete lie. Other people who were associated with this project can testify to that.
He intentionally delayed development, to drag out the patreon payments, and never had a clear vision of what he intended to make, since, as I figured out later, he never really intended on delivering an actual product. I worked on cleaning up large volumes of sample data for his voice generation AI models, created artwork assets, and helped with development on the art aspect, and all I was compensated with was 9.16 CAD. Another 3D artist who worked on the project named ZaZ was also only compensated with 200 CAD. The rest were never paid anything. His promise was that he would give us shares in his company that he would create based off this project, and back then I was too stupid and gullible to fall for his fake promises. None of it ever happened. And all the patreons who supported him got scammed. I feel sorry for them.
If I remember correctly, it was in the middle of 2022 that he went missing in action for the first time, citing a hospital admission for Pfizer vaccine induced pericarditis. I don't have enough information to tell if that was real or fake, but I am more inclined to believe it was yet another ploy of his. Actual progress in terms of development went to a complete halt by then, but he didn't want to stop charging his patreon subscribers despite me suggesting him to stop it. He came back early next year but started acting weird, and then eventually went completely MIA after selling his project to another guy called Cross Product who too seemed to be pretty disingenuous about the details regarding that deal. He too ghosted me eventually, and I left the project's discord server to focus on my real life, knowing that I had been completely exploited and scammed. I joined it because I really loved the concept of this project back then and wanted to see it become reality, but I had been betrayed for being the fool I was.
I wanted to talk about this earlier but I had been busy with my real life up until last year (I am finally a registered doctor now), but I'm sharing this now since I think everyone deserves to know what happened behind the scenes. Please do keep in mind that I do not intend to create any drama with this (for it is too late now to actually create any drama) and this is only what I feel like I should share with everyone so they are not left with a cliffhanger. It was a great misfortune for me to have worked under this scammer but I believe ill-gotten gains get you nowhere and karma will deliver unto him what he deserves. I see that
sangri31 intends to make something better from his post
here, so I wish him well, and hope that he has better luck with it. That's about it from me regarding this. Peace.
