Ant Simulator canceled after crowdfunding money spent on liquor and strippers

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Ant Simulator, a game that raised money through crowdfunding, has allegedly been canceled because the company’s leaders spent the money on liquor, restaurants, and strippers instead of using it to finish the game.

If the allegations are true, the episode is reminder of the go-go days of dotcoms and it represents a cautionary tale for crowdfunding.

ETeeski raised money for a PC game on Steam and a PlayStation 4 console game. The fundraising page on ETeeski is no longer there. The description of the game is still available on the ETeeski web site, but there are YouTube videos that described its progress.

In the game, you would have played an ant and seen the world from an ant’s point of view.

Eric Tereshinski posted a video on Saturday saying that Ant Simulator was canceled and he was resigning from ETeeski, the developer of the game after a year and a half of work. Tereshinski was the programmer on the project, and he said that he worked on the project for more than a year.

“This is going to be the worst video I’ve ever had to make,” Tereshinski said. “Ant Simulator is going to be canceled. I can’t work on Ant Simulator anymore. I recently found out my ex business partners were secretly stealing company money. 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. This is the reason it has become exceedingly clear to me that I cannot have my career associated with these guys.”

https://games.yahoo.com/news/ant-simulator-canceled-kickstarter-money-193019873.html

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