Although 2023 was the year of incredible game releases such asAlan Wake 2,Resident Evil4,Baldur’s Gate 3and more, it was also the year Fntastic’sThe Day Beforewas released and if you were not aware, it had less than a positive outcome.
Take a look atThe Day Beforetrailer below!
It was such a disaster that Fntastic soon shut its doors and the game was taken offline with the developers claimingThe Day Beforehad “failed financially” and that they “lacked the funds to continue”.
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According to the report,The Day Beforeoriginally started off with a 10-person team whose aim it was to create a small-scale survival game set in the winter and with cartoon-style graphics. However, it wasn’t long before the project snowballed, the team grew and alterations were demanded. Things were changed so much that there were three different versions of the game at one time.
With the development team “disappointed” with the changes, management at Fntastic soon started ramping up the pressure in order to stay up with industry trends. Developers were told to mimic features from huge properties such asGrand Theft AutoandBaldur’s Gate 3and these unrealistic deadlines, the high pressure, and even threats seemingly came from brothers and Fntastic founders Eduard and Aisen Gotovtsev.
Despite claiming the team was “one big family,” the pair often reportedly threatened its employees with spontaneous firings with the brothers claiming this was a way to “motivate” the team. Furthermore, they would also rely on fines, with two developers receiving a $1,930 fine for handing in “low quality” voice recordings. Add that to a ridiculous crunch which reportedly saw developers working every weekend and it equalled a horrifyingly toxic workplace.
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