Fortune’s Run released in Early Access on Steam in September of 2023, but do not expect the game to exit Early Access for a few years.
Dizzie, the developer of the game has announced the game will be halting due to having been sentenced to prison for the next three years.
A statement was put out on Steam about the matter.
Hi everyone! I’m Dizzie, as of recently the sole developer of this game.
First of all, I have some stuff going on I need to make public as it’s going to interrupt development. I’ve been sentenced to prison for the next 3 years. It’s a long story, but I’ve lived a very different life before I was a game developer, and I wasn’t living very well. My case is about 5 years old now, I have been going through the legal process the whole time I’ve been working on this. 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. I was a very violent person and I hurt a lot of people in my life. Unfortunately, the sentence isn’t going to help with that at all, but I guess we all know that.
So the game isn’t TOTALLY dead, but unfortunately due to even further bad things happening, it’s unclear what will happen.
The other developer has left the project. Once she recovered, she decided that she was no longer interested in game development. She was in charge of QA and a few level segments, all of which has been abandoned and I’ve been forced to get by on my own for the past while. It’s been very difficult to do alone but I actually managed, by basically not sleeping, to complete all of the work in time so that it could be released before I’m sent away.
Since we decided to part ways, development will be completely interrupted until I’m released. I know many of you will be upset and disappointed but please understand that there’s absolutely nothing I can do, these wheels were in motion long before I started making this game and it’s just been slowly unraveling in my face the whole time. I want to underline that I’m no longer in financial dire straits since our game actually sold OK, so I should be able to afford rent once I get out, so there’s a chance that if you wait a few years I’ll be able to cap off the release. In fact, there’s not very much content left to work on, I’ve been making stubs and prototypes of the missing levels in my spare time.
I am extremely passionate about this stuff and I’m never going to stop making games. I’d like to finish this one, but I don’t know what will happen. I’m going to do my best, because I love this game and I want to finish it. Seriously, I just want to finish it. Finish it already, Dizzie!
Big thanks to the Discord community, to the people on Patreon, and finally to all the people here who gave us their money to pull us out of the darkness and into frankly the best job anyone could ever have, to tell awesome stories, write crazy code, draw beautiful things and record sweet music all day from the moment I wake up until I fall asleep. You guys are the best and you don’t know how much of an impact you made in my life. I just wanted a chance to do something I was good at! Well, I did that, I did some of it at least, and I hope you all enjoyed it. Let’s do it again sometime.
