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Risqué farming game, Breeding Season, cancelled

Harvest Moon meets Hentai no longer coming to PC after artistic dispute.

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The sexy farming game, Breeding Season, has been brought to a swift halt, after an artist took advantage of a poorly written contract. The game was becoming hugely popular, pulling in more than $42,000 a month on their Patreon page, which has now been made private. Despite this the game is no more as former Art Director Vladimir Sandler has taken away most of the assets.

The Breeding Season team released a blog post written by project creator "Harista-PipeBomb" gave details of Sandler's "incredibly generous contract." This contact gave him full rights to the artwork he created for Breeding Season, which has meant development had to be halted when Sandler moved all of his assets to a new, very similar game called Cloud Meadow, leaving the Breeding Season team with most of their assets gone.

The blog post said: "S had gone entirely behind our backs to spend an entire month's worth of work (for which he collected over $9,000 of patron money, by the way) working on a new project that he planned to abandon Breeding Season entirely for."

It also explained: "Not even once had he brought up to me the notion of him leaving the project or faced me directly with his desire for different leadership. Instead he took the most cowardly possible option, to the point of even fooling Subtank [another artist] into believing the work he was doing was for Breeding Season's benefit, and straight-up swindled us."

Not only has Sandler got away with the assets he created, he has taken half the studio's savings. This is again a complication arising from his contract. Along with this he has rightfully demanded that all his assets are removed from Breeding Season.

PipeBomb said: "There is absolutely no viable reason for him to do this except to be an emotionally-stunted man-child destroying someone else's sandcastle. He can't even reasonably repurpose any of these assets for use in another project because anything that is either based on my design or was touched by any of the other artists or animators also jointly belongs to me. And there is no way in fucking hell I am letting him get away with what he did on any level."

Sandler wrote his own blog post, giving his side of the story where he explained that it was not "out of spite, nor greed, but through legitimate disagreements with HBomb's method of management."

The anger seems to run deep with the Breeding Season development team, who wrote in their blog post: "Breeding Season is over, we're never even making it out of alpha and every promise we ever fucking made is invalidated by the fact I put too much trust in someone else to do the right thing. Hell, not even the right thing; I just trusted him to do the not fucking insane thing."

This shows that no matter how well a game is doing financially, people on the inside with poorly written contracts can bring a game completely down.

Breeding Season

Thanks, Kotaku.

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