Ant Simulator game canceled after devs blow Kickstarter funds on strippers and booze
More specifically, “They had secretly spent the overwhelming majority of both our Kickstarter money and the Ant Simulator investment money on liquor, restaurants, bars, and...even strippers,” says Tereshinski.
“My ex-business partners directly said to me, ‘If you release Ant Simulator without us, I will sue you.’ Resigning and canceling Ant Simulator is really the only option available to me right now.” Tereshinski continues in the video.
Check it out below. Fair warning, it makes for depressing listening.
Essentially what happened is that early on, Tereshinski signed an LLC with two of his long-time friends—and, as he says in a YouTube comment:
Armchair lawyers have suggested Tereshinski sue or counter-sue his former friends for breaching their contract, but he claims the most likely outcome is “that things end up more or less the same as they are now”—minus a bunch of money for lawyer fees. So he’s walking away.
It’s neither the largest Kickstarter we’ve seen implode nor the most notable, but damn, it’s certainly the most sordid. Backers can apparently expect an email about refunds soon. Best of luck to Tereshinski going forward.