CNET's report is pretty damning.
The Adelaide-based Mighty Kingdom is facing allegations of fraud, IP theft and unjust treatment of its employees detailed in a new report from CNET’s Jackson Ryan.
Ryan paints an extensive picture of the current state of Mighty Kingdom, Australia’s largest indie developer, also attributing poor sales of its first console release, Conan Chop Chop, and a falling stock price to the developer’s escalating woes.
“Over the past six months, CNET has investigated allegations against the studio, uncovering a trail of broken promises, deception and unmet expectations and revealing a messy dispute over IP, entangling the studio and the state government of South Australia,” Ryan writes.
Quite honestly, we can’t do justice to Ryan’s six months of researching, so we’d suggest you go and give it a read.
In an attempt to boil the issues down to something digestible, CNET details a disagreement between Mighty Kingdom and Kitty Keeper creator Justin Daley, problems related to the transition of Dungeon Chop Chop to Conan Chop Chop, missed payments to Chop Chop‘s former creative director, a new, NFT-focused entrepreneur stepping in an “significant equity position,” and much more.
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