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Got a good laugh out of the title, never played the game though so I guess if you're a fan this sucks for you?
Link: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/fps/development-of-fortunes-run-is-imploding-as-its-sole-remaining-developer-announces-theyve-been-sentenced-to-3-years-in-jail-what-i-did-was-wrong-and-thats-all-you-need-to-know/
labtob
that game is incredibly cringe.
FroggyFae
Props for owning up to one's crimes and accepting consequences instead of running for office so you don't face them
gnomedeplume
looks like their fortune ran out
heyletsbefriends
why deny him the opportunity to work from prison? prisoners working and living as closer to normal lives as possible would be a win for everyone.
martentos
Because working in prison is about prison labor, aka indentured servitude aka slavery. He's not in prison to make income for himself!
NKato
Wow. Dude actually was honest. That's rare and a huge marker of character.
DWolf
Three years can be shaved by taking classes (educational, anger control or drug use prevention). He could only serve half, especially 1/
DWolf
given that he's accepted responsibility. It depends on the severity of the crime. Source: My 12 years covering courts as a reporter.
PatrickMcChunky
This is a BS excuse. They have computers in prison. Get to work on those bugs.
d1d1t4t3hlulz0hl4wdy
No they don't, they have highly restricted, locked down 'chirps' which are iphones. Source, I work at a jail. The only 'laptop' use is for working on your own case, and you deciding to be a total fucking moron and representing yourself, and believe me, when it comes to the computer, we monitor /everything/, and we get to see /all/ you do on it. As someone that used to program mods for games in the 90's/early 2000s, nah...not happening. Let the guy serve his time in peace.
mikeatike
Ask Kevin Mitnick.
Well, you can't now... :(
gnomedeplume
even if you weren't being serious there's usually a bunch of restrictions on what you're allowed to access from prison computers
Imademyselfsquirtle
Satire?
gnomedeplume
I'd fucking hope so but there are people out there who'd complain that you interrupted crunch to attend your mother's funeral and get your appendix removed
KYGELL91
Fortune's run but he sure don't
Volpe42
Popular?
gnomedeplume
positive reviews on steam, gog and various game news sites, sold well enough for the developer to be able to afford rent once they get out, so yes: popular
Volpe42
Yet I've never seen it on steam and neither has steam suggested it to me and I play mostly FPS games on there.
westellar
Never heard of it, so I'm convinced he got himself convicted as a marketing gimmick. Hey, guys, check out this indie game! The dev is in jail!
Trelfar
FroggyFae
A criminal record on an indie dev doesn't seem like it would be worth whatever 5 minutes of fame you get. Like your fame is forever tied to your criminal record and as an indie dev who says they couldn't make ends meet until recently, I doubt they are rich enough to make this kind of notoriety work for them in any way, compared to 3 years in prison and trouble finding other work after they get out.
CaptainYesterday
Still better bug fixing than bethesda.
Zalure17
Read that as Fortnite and got excited. Now just disappointed
DarthFutuza
This is like the most to the point, straight facts article title I've seen in a long time. No need to sensationalize if the truth is already funny I guess.
JerBearington
This raises an interesting question I hadn’t thought of: could a self-employed developer continue working while incarcerated, given they have some basic equipment? I’m not suggesting that they do, just curious as a developer.
blaghart
Itd be more productive than the current US slave labor prison system thats for sure
Selekta
Are you planning on committing a felony, sir?
RayneOfSalt
"A" felony? Nope.
KoRplussomeletters
"34" felonies?
JerBearington
N- n- no sir
SarcasticComment
this would assume the prison system cares about people.
drizztx
I mean, as long as it's not the U.S., Russian, or Chinese prison system, he's got a good chance of that.
tomatoboy
“Asked for further details, Dizzie refuses to go into the specifics, though does clarify this is not a sex-related crime: "What I did was wrong and that's all you need to know."”
TexMexHex
Tbf, christian white republicans dont think dittlin children is a crime. Sooooooo......
Youhavinagiraffe
I feel like if I was in this position I would want to emphasis that I hadn't hurt anybody if that was the case. Specifically saying it wasn't a sex crime makes me think it was probably an assault but not a sexual assault
wambu
Feeding faces to leopards.
VictusVonGuyver
The only thing I know is that the crime was violent, apparently it already had 5 years of proceedings. Could've been a bar brawl, road rage, domestic abuse, bludgeoning a neighbor.
Youhavinagiraffe
Since they specifically said it wasn't a sex crime I think domestic violence/ assault of a romantic partner is quite likely. Making that specific denial feels like the kind of thing you'd say if you were aware that the identity of the victim may well become known at some point and you want to get ahead of that to avoid people assuming the worst
PatadoX
Shouldn’t it be a matter of public record? What crime was he convicted of
PirateRubberDuck
Depends where they live.
tomatoboy
A) apparently he’s never shared his real name and B) some countries are much tighter about what conviction information is available to the public, so without knowing where he lives it’s hard to say it even would be publicly available information.
Salpinus
Depends what country. In Norway it's (luckily) not public.
Zange0
Dizzie clarified in the comments that she didn't want to try to justify it:
"Violence is not justified even in between violent people and I'm taking the clear stance that what I did was wrong irrespective of circumstance. I also believe in change. So let's just say that it was wrong, if that means you don't support me, that's your right and I respect it."
The5lacker
Do you know his real name? Or where he lives? ‘Cause if he’s only posting under a pseudonym like a lot of indie devs, gonna be hard to track him down, if you even wanted to. Much funnier to imagine.
pyroshen
Did some googling, apparently the real name isn't known. Goes by 'Dizzie' username and the sentence was for "violent crimes". Had a violent past, apparently
The5lacker
If that’s all he feels like sharing, that’s all I need to know.
Frenchgeek
So now we have to come up with the weirdest non-sex related crime we can imagine ourselves? Damn.
CitizenPrime
Murder
StarshipSuperTrooper
Stealing all the sperm samples from a ferttility clinic... but... like not in a sexual way. Just wanted to experiment with different ingredients for ranch dressing
DocHarriers
Time to go over Crime A Day's tweets and see what the funniest thing we can find is.
Meltemi
He was asked by several long-lived vaquita to obtain a particularly rare bird, as they required the feathers to mix up an immortality serum. He successfully managed to find a Bali mynah in a nearby estate, but while escaping with the bird, he had to climb over several statues of sleeping lions to get over the outer fence. He was immediately arrested for transporting a mynah across staid lions for immortal porpoises.
backitupthunder
Ate a watermelon in a certain cemetery in south carolina
KingKelloggTheWaffleHaggler
That man murdered me.
SheepySleepySmuggler
He was selling cute bears (grizzly/polar/black/koala) via mail order. While they looked cute, it resulted in a number of customers and mail delivery people being badly injured due to shoddy packaging.
Danivuk
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/a-minus-minus.png
Nnoodles
Well yes, but this is totally misleading. It had nothing to do with the bears other than the drugs he used to put the grizzly/polar/black/koala to sleep were not exactly legal in all states. Which is why he was stingy with them, expensive you see. He got pinched for drug trafficking.
WarlockSniper
"Instead of office chair, package contained bobcat. Would not buy again."
Lurch1911
As much as we would like to believe it’s something weird, it’s probably embezzlement or something.
HubicPairs
Or tax evasion. A common crime for a small biz man
Kbantar
Would you be that cagey with admitting it though?
HubicPairs
No clue what you mean by this… he was already caught at this point.
numbonvalium
If I paid money for that game and supported the developer financially, I would kind of want to know more about what this person I supported did.
idiotsonfire
Crimes and sentencing are public record. We don't also need the person to go on a public humiliation tour.
Youhavinagiraffe
The article only calls him "Dizzie" which is unlikely to be the name in the court record
idiotsonfire
When someone is convicted of a crime, it is a part of public record. That you don't want to look into anything on your own is a YOU problem, it is not my responsibility to look into the steam files and find out for you. You want to know what he was convicted of? You go fucking find out.
Youhavinagiraffe
Maybe tune it down to just a 12 or 13 out of 10 on the old reply machine dude
BautaStein
Damn this is the first time of me hearing this. I bought it he day it came out. Great but convoluted game, updates stopped because he claimed his spouse who was the co developer got sickt. I wonder what happened.
Zange0
There are more details in the major update threads, but her wife had several complications from a recent surgery and was unable to continue to do QA on the project. Since Dizzie was the primary dev and now she's off to prison, the game is on hold until she's out.
TurkNJD
Cats ate her face, Dewey knows more about it
Kommkat
His wife got very sick, and burned out heavily on game development. They'd basically been living in crunch for a long time, and after her sickness she needed a change.
FukcTedCruz
He added loot boxes
BautaStein
Straight to jail
Volpe42
I wish that was jailable
TacoPoweredHelicopter
The $$$ talks and says people love lootboxes. I don't care for them, but people baulk at game prices then dump money into lootboxes.
Poopoopeepeevagina
Not sure if it's jail worthy offense in Europe. But I read they banned loot boxes as it was essentially gambling being peddled to children.
Volpe42
Exactly my take
Hekatombe
A little bit more information in GameSpot's article but not much https://www.gamespot.com/articles/fortunes-run-production-on-hold-as-its-lone-developer-faces-three-year-prison-sentence/1100-6528855/
"My case is about five years old now, I have been going through the legal process the whole time I've been working on this," he added. "I have finally been found guilty and sentenced, and I'm going away next month. It's a shame, but it's the consequences of my actions."
dopaminelever
I loled:
Dizzie also noted that another Fortune's Run update is in the works and will be released before he begins serving his sentence.
"Oh yeah. What about the update, huh? I'm going to put that in the next news post, because it feels weird to uh, put patch notes at the bottom of this blog post."
Hekatombe
And "The other developer has left the project," Dizzie wrote. "Once she recovered [from surgery], she decided that she was no longer interested in game development..."
Frostycopper
Just from context clues it sounds like domestic abuse. Hope it's not that and it's more like tax crime
Hekatombe
Not sure I agree. He wrote it is a violent crime. He also wrote that it happened 5 years ago. Not sure if that strengthens or weakens the hypothesis that it is domestic abuse
vowofloudness
He very clearly said it's not that in his announcement: "My case dates from before I met the other dev. She is not related to it in any way. Like I said, the other dev was recovering from a botched surgery. If you want to accuse me of something, accuse me of stressing her out with my legal problems and my crazy work schedule." https://steamcommunity.com/games/1692240/announcements/detail/532087801681805319
Frostycopper
Thanks
ThingsThatDontJustifyGenocide
He could solve a lot of speculation by just being upfront about his crime.