Standalone A Space for the Unbound halted development due to controversial manipulation by its distributor

The authors claim that PQube Games applied for an unused grant for the project.

The video game industry usually brings us the most exciting news, but the sheer size of this industry also includes some news that makes us feel helpless and frustrated. Today’s writers A Space for the Aligned They conveyed via social networks that they paused the development of their games due to an unpleasant situation with the distributor on the western consoles, PQube Games.

PQube Games withheld information about the subsidy and used it for its own benefitToge Productions and Mojiken Studio“At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in August 2020, PQube Games leveraged our position and legacy as an Indonesian developer. diversity grant A well-known console platform,” explains the statement posted on Twitter. “The diversity grant was specifically aimed at helping game developers who were underrepresented during the pandemic. However, instead of giving this grant to the developers as planned, PQube Games deliberately withheld information about the grant, and used it for his own benefit“.

In the message, the team Toge Productions Y Mojiken Studio They detail that PQube Games used the money to “negotiate to increase their involvement in revenue,” and they learned the whole move in March 2022. In this way, developers They want to cut ties with the publisher and after all, they don’t want users to retaliate like bombing the company.

PQGames, which has made a place in the industry by distributing games such as Tormented Souls, Cat Quest or Guilty Gear 20th Anniversary, has not yet made a statement regarding this discussion. As for A Space for the Unbound, we will continue to pay attention to all the news published by the Indonesian developer who created an adventure in Indonesia. pixel art style This explores the relationship between a boy and a girl with supernatural powers.

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