#update: you did force ne to write that easily

[bloojayoolie]

Being Alone, Animals, and Apparently: Marvia 8093 such a litle cutie pie, just 5 yrs old, only 12 lhs, energetic, playful, social at ACC. Marvin loves toys, & being the only pup in his new home, the king of the castle to be spoiled rotten. A GOOD little boy who will certainly thrive in the right home. Said to be fearful at times & therefore rescue only meaning you have to apply with rescues to foster or adopt him. PLEASE, DO! Apply now to save his life! This adorable little cutie pieis waiting for you to save his life at the Manhattan, NY ACC. Vat **FOSTER or ADOPTER NEEDED ASAP** Marvin 60930... such a little cutie pie, just 5 yrs old, only 12 lbs, energetic, playful, social at ACC. Marvin loves toys, & being the only pup in his new home, the king of the castle to be spoiled rotten. A GOOD little boy who will certainly thrive in the right home. Said to be fearful at times & therefore rescue-only meaning you have to apply with rescues to foster or adopt him. PLEASE, DO! Apply now to save his life! This adorable little cutie pie is waiting for you to save his life at the Manhattan, NY ACC. A staff member writes: "Hey there, my name is Marvin. It's a pretty big world out there, and I'm so little! I can get a bit scared of new people and new things, but I'd love to meet a respectful friend who can help me adjust to the world at my own pace. I'd love to be your one and only pet in a low-traffic, calm environment. Will you be the one to lend a comforting hand?" **************************************** To FOSTER or ADOPT this little nugget, SPEAK UP NOW & APPLY with rescues OR message Must Love Dogs - Saving NYC Dogs for assistance immediately! ************************************** The general rule is to foster you have to be within 4 hours of the NYC ACC approved New Hope partner rescues you are applying with and to adopt you will have to be in the general NE US area; NY, NJ, CT, PA, DC, MD, DE, NH, RI, MA, VT & ME (some rescues will transport to VA). ************************************** You must apply to rescues already approved to pull from NYC ACC shelters. Rescues can't do anything without APPLICATIONS! If your application is approved, rescue will arrange transport. ************************************** Marvin 60930 Small Mixed Breed Sex male Age 5 yrs (approx.) - 12 lbs My health has been checked. My vaccinations are up to date. My worming is up to date. I have been micro-chipped. I am waiting for you at the Manhattan, NY ACC. Please, Please, Please, save me! Basic Information: Marvin is an approximately 5 year old, altered male, small mixed breed. He was brought in as an owner surrender. Previously lived with: 2 adults How is this dog around strangers? Marvin is said to be fearful and unwelcoming towards strangers. It is said that he will bark, jump, and snap at strangers. How is this dog around children? Behavior is unknown How is this dog around other dogs? Marvin previously lived with another male dog that is 4 years old. It is said that he was unfriendly towards the other dog and would bully him by snapping at him. How is this dog around cats? Behavior is unknown Resource guarding: No known resource guarding Bite history: Reported to have nipped someone about one year ago. Energy level/descriptors: Medium Other Notes: During storms and fireworks it is said that he will be nervous and fearful. It is said that Marvin is non-reactive when his food, treats, and toys are being taken away, when being restrained, when being given a bath, and when being brushed. It is said that he is fearful when being disturbed while sleeping and when having his nail trimmed and feet touched. It is said that he will bark, growl, snap, and bite when unfamiliar people approach the house and family members. Has this dog ever had any medical issues? No Medical Notes No known medical issues For a New Family to Know Marvin is said to be anxious, fearful, and excitable. Is it said that his favorite things to do are eating and going for walks. When at home it is said that he will follow people around. It is said that he likes stuffed animals and squeaky toys and that he likes to play chase. He was kept indoor and is used to sleeping in a playpen on his own bed. He was fed both dry and wet food twice a day. It is said that his favorite treats are fruits and vegetables. When left alone in the house it is said that he will bark. He has never been left alone in a yard or crate trained. He is said to know the commands sit and come. For exercise he is used to slow walks on a leash. He has been let off leash. Assessment Summary: Leash Walking Strength and pulling: None Reactivity to humans: None Reactivity to dogs: None Leash walking comments: None Sociability Loose in room (15-20 seconds): Highly Social Call over: Approaches readily Sociability comments: body soft, Jumps up, mouthy with light pressure Handling Soft handling: fearful Exuberant handling: fearful Comments: body tense Arousal Jog: Engages in play Arousal comments: jumps up Knock: barks Knock Comments: approaches and jumps up Toy: grips, firm Toy comments: None Playgroup: Marvin avoided interaction from the helper dog in the care center. A single pet home is recommended due to owner history. DVM Intake Exam Estimated age: 5 years Microchip noted on Intake? Yes Microchip Number (If Applicable): History : Owner surrender. Reported to have bitten someone about one year ago and to bully the owners other dog at home. Subjective: BAR Observed Behavior -Hyper in cage and trying to get out. He allowed all handling without any growling, biting or lunging. We were able to pick him up easily with a towel. We muzzled him because of his history but he did not give us any issues. Evidence of Cruelty seen -No Evidence of Trauma seen -No Objective T = P =120 bpm R =eup BCS 5/9 EENT: Eyes clear, ears clean, no nasal or ocular discharge noted Oral Exam: Muzzled, clean incisors and canines, could not examine other teeth PLN: No enlargements noted H/L: NSR, NMA, CRT < 2, Lungs clear, eupnic, no c/s ABD: Non painful, no masses palpated U/G: M/N MSI: Ambulatory x 4, skin free of parasites, no masses noted, healthy hair coat CNS: Mentation appropriate - no signs of neurologic abnormalities Rectal: Clean externally Assessment: Apparently healthy BEHAVIOR DETERMINATION: New Hope Only Behavior Asilomar TM - Treatable-Manageable Recommendations: No children (under 13)/Single-pet home/Recommend no dog parks/Place with a New Hope partner Recommendations comments: No children: Marvin is uncomfortable with exuberant handling and has a tendency to bark and snap at unfamiliar people. For these reasons we recommend an adult-only home. Single pet home: See DOG-DOG. Place with a New Hope partner: Due to Marvin's behaviors reported by his previous owners, including barking and snapping at unfamiliar people, we recommend Marvin be placed with a New Hope placement partner who is able to provide an experienced adult-only foster home. A period of decompression is recommended to allow Marvin to acclimate comfortably to his new environment; force-free, reward based training only is advised when introducing Marvin to new and unfamiliar situations. Consultation with a professional trainer/behaviorist is highly recommended for guidance to safely manage/modify any behavior Marvin presents with outside of the care centers. Potential challenges: Mouthiness/Fearful/potential for defensive aggression Potential challenges comments: Mouthiness/poor bite inhibition: While at the care center, Marvin is mouthy when interacting with his handlers. Please see handout on Mouthiness. Fearful/potential for defensive aggression: Marvin is uncomfortable around unfamiliar people and will bark and snap at them. He also bit someone in the home and broke skin. Also, in the care center, Marvin is uncomfortable with handling. Please see handout on Fearful/potential for defensive aggression. ... NOTE: *** WE HAVE NO OTHER INFORMATION THAN WHAT IS LISTED WITH THIS FLYER *** ... RE: ACC site Just because a dog is not on the ACC site does NOT necessarily mean safe. There are many reasons for this like a hold or an eval has not been conducted yet or the dog is rescue-only... the list goes on... Please, do share & apply to foster/adopt these pups as well until their thread is updated with their most current status. TY! ======== Shelter address ====== - Manhattan Shelter: 326 East 110 St., New York, NY 10029 Operating hours: Monday through Friday 12.00pm to 8.00pm, Saturday & Sunday: 10.00am to 6.00pm. Closed on all Holidays. ****************************************** ****************************************** About Must Love Dogs - Saving NYC Dogs: We are a group of advocates (NOT a shelter NOR a rescue group) dedicated to finding loving homes for NYC dogs in desperate need. ALL the dogs on our site need Rescue, Fosters, or Adopters & that ASAP as they are in NYC high-kill shelters. If you cannot foster or adopt, please share them far & wide. Thank you for caring!! <3 ****************************************** RESCUES: * Indicates New Hope Rescue partner is accepting applications for fosters and/or adopters. http://www.nycacc.org/get-involved/new-hope/nhpartners ****************************************** Beamer Maximillian Carolin Hocker Caro Hocker Heidi Walker Susan Klingbeil Yorkie911 Rescue, Inc Gangs Of New Yorkie United Yorkie Rescue

[sweetaselle]

In My Own Words: (Heo Young Saeng Fanfic) Chapter 2

A/N: Click here for Chapter 1 on Tumblr, and click here for the AsianFanfics link… Please subscribe, while you’re there 😊  

Also, WARNING... possible health/ anxiety/ depression/ prescription drug trigger in this chapter. I am in NO way fetishizing having any of these conditions, nor am I saying any one of these characters (based on real people) in this chapter/ series actually have these conditions in real life. All of these scenarios and situations are fiction, and any events in this chapter/ story that could possibly occur in real life are purely coincidental. Ok, trigger warning over... let’s get on to the story.

Flashback (audio only), late 2005 -- a little after debut

All is fade to white...

Young Saeng POV

"Ireumi mwoyeyo (what is your name)?" a soft, sweet... angelic female voice asks.

"Noh (Me)? Young Saeng, Heo Young Saeng," I felt myself take a deep bow.

She laughs, "Eyyy, you don't have to be so formal with me, Young Saengie." I felt the blush boiling my cheeks right now.

"Ne, mianhaeyo, sunbae," I say, still bowed.

"Aniyo, this won't do..." she places her hands on her hips, unsatisfied.

As I'm about to feel my head lift up, the chilling touch of her hands lightly brush past my cheeks. Her fingertips caressing the nape of my jawline, and a sudden cold sensation at the middle of the side of my neck... something metal.

"There. These suit you better than they do for me," she grins as she steps back and commends herself at her good work.

I was about to say something, but I heard her footsteps tapping softly away from me. With an air of defeat still up in the air, my head jolts back up at the slight squeak! as she turned and I could feel her teasing gaze on me. My heart stilled, as if oxygen could barely get into it.

"By the way, Young Saengie... you should still be calling me 'noona' around here," she coos. "Everyone else does here, just like they do back home. Merong~ 😜 ! "

Flashback ends

Somewhere over the Sea of Japan, 00:31am

Young Saeng POV

Aishhh, not her again.

I crouch down from my reclined seat in first class, rubbing my eyes trying to regain conscious. The cabin is dimly lit. Even though our flight to Japan was easily an hour and a half, because it was so late, the plane interior emitted a warm, cobalt blue and Hyung Jun maknae was knocked out in the seat beside me.

I limped towards and into the lavatory, as my legs fell asleep along with me. I emptied out, splashed some water on my face, and snuck in some anti-anxiety pills my psychiatrist prescribed me. Drowning that bitter taste, I tilted my mouth under the faucet and drank enough just to force it down. I groan in disgust, until I looked in the mirror and saw the deteriorating man that had become Heo Young Saeng.

Only my mother & father, Hyun Joong hyung, and Kyu Jong knew about the anxiety and borderline depression I've been having since that last incident I had in my attempt at a normal, healthy, and actually existent love life. I always hated not having things the way I wanted or had planned, and the stress from all that heartache back then, on top of the 301 comebacks had triggered some unwanted effects.

My body and face weight have practically melted off. My eyebags have darkened and puffed up more than balloons, and my dimples have the slightest hint of laugh lines and wrinkles in them. There's a saying in Korean that means "getting older," which is "eating your years," and it had me thinking maybe the years are eating me.

I felt like my body was wasting away, along with that person who left so long ago. Part of me probably went right with her, and still haunts me to this day.

I walked back to my seat. Hyung Jun maknae still asleep, cocooned in his complimentary airline blanket, like the real baby he is. It was kind of cute, honestly. Then, I started to notice the nervous tapping I was doing on the armrest. I felt the electric twinge crawl from my spine to the center of my neck, and slowly rolled my head back like there was a cold wind in the air.

Damn, the pills haven't kicked in at all yet. Calm down, Young Saeng. Gwenchana...

I felt my chest expanding, about to hyperventilate, when I felt a hand on my left shoulder. "Hyung, gwenchanayo. We're right here, and we're here for you," a soft, mellow voice soothed me with its familiarity.

"K-kyu Jong," I stuttered, barely able to keep my breathing down comfortably.

"Hyung, hyung," Kyu Jong cooed, rubbing my back to comfort me and handing me a glass of water to calm me down.

I glare him down, for he knew I didn't like people pitying me or caring for me out of pity. I felt so weak, a let-down, a failed example of a Leader and hyung... but I knew that this is Kyu Jong. My bandmate, and my brother... a true one at that, even if not by blood, and he was just concerned and sincere that he wanted to be there for me as much as I for him and the rest of the members.

Shakily, I down the glass and slowly begin to relax. I plopped back into my seat, with a warm towel folded on my forehead that the stewardess gave us. Kyu Jong lied and said I had an extreme fever.

As my muscles grew limp and my breathing comfortable, my eyes closed. No veins popping out of my temples this time. Just smooth... guitar strums, followed by a jazzy bass, and a soft drum tap. I started to sway in my seat, Marvin Gaye/ Motown-style, and snapped my fingers to a 1-2 tempo in my head.

"I loved you so much But why am I feeling nothing? Before I fell asleep, I suddenly thought of you Then I thought for a while How was it back then? Your face, your name They are the same But why am I being like this? That love is over anyway"

I felt a tap on the side of my bicep, snapped out of my inner jam, turned to behind my seat, catching the fallen warm towel in my right hand. I looked at Kyu Jong with a deer-in-the-headlights look, "Mwoya? Are we here??" I moved my head around for any sign of landing.

"Oh, aniyo," Kyu Jong looked equally confused. "Aniyo, hyung... I just thought you were having another anxiety attack."

"Ah, aniya!" I smiled, the first real one I've had this whole flight. "Quite the opposite, Kyu Jong-ah. In fact..."

"I remove you I'll erase you now I remove you As if you were never here To the point where I wonder if I really loved you Right now, I remove you"

I hunched over the right side of my seat, under sleeping Hyung Jun's feet, and pulled out my backpack from the storage compartment. I have to write this down. The chords, lyrics... everything. I dug through every pocket, every zippered compartment, and slowly felt the color leave my face again.

"Eodiya? Nae noteu yeogiseo?!?" I whine frantically, dumping my bag's contents all over my lap and the cabin floor.

"Hyung, what's wrong?" Kyu Jong slides his head out onto the aisle.

I drop the bag onto my lap and it proceeded to fall to the ground, finally waking up Hyung Jun up.

"YA! Hyung, are we there yet? Mwo? What's all this mess??" Junnie annoyingly questions.

I turn to Kyu Jong, feeling my whole arm shake. My seat vibrated with it under my clutch. "H-hyung??"

"Mul... mul juyseyo! Ppalli!!!" I wheezed, desperately gasping for air before collapsing with a thud!

"HYUNG!" both my dongsaengs exclaimed, leaping out of their seats.

I didn't hear a thing after that. Just echos, in and out of sounds. My vision blurred, and everything seemed to be going in slow motion, knowing very well my body was probably convulsing at 100 kilometers per second in real time. It was more than just leaving or misplacing my notebook at home... it was dealing with the actual fact of letting her go permanently. Really erasing her... only to be taken, controlled, and possessed this monster that has tortured me, since the day she left. It's like... she always wants me to remember her.

"In my heart If it can not be erased It will always be repeated. I am still today Try to erase it. Not a minute left. I remove you Let me erase you now I remove you As if you were not there I love you Now I I remove you I remove you I will not think of it anymore. I remove you As if we were not I love you Now I I remove you"

Waegeurae... Go Eun Ah-ie? Waegeurae... did you leave me like this? 

A/N: For once, that photo edit is my own. The gifs, Young Saeng and his original IG post? Not yet :P

Also, I forgot to list what songs/ which translated versions of the songs I referenced in the last chapter and in the foreword (not trying to get flagged/ taken down by "the man" for quoting their lyrics). Click here for that. For this chapter's song, I referenced two sources: one video and one translation site. 

Thankyu so much for reading, and please... don’t forget to leave your comments on AFF (I do read all of them, and reply when I can), and upvote this story for faster updates! 

[game-refraction]

Russian publisher 'Buka' shafted us out of $24k & threatens to sue when confronted - From the eyes of tinyBuild

I recently received an email from Alex Nichiporchik, CEO of tinyBuild games.  As a news outlet, we have published many press releases and interviews from games tinyBuild has released over the last few years.  This email wasn’t a normal press release, but it was more of a warning about what can happen to smaller game studio’s when bigger guys come out to bully you.  I’m going to copy/paste the entire article here, with a link at the bottom to read it at the original location.  Be warned, this post is quite long.

**Please note we at Game-Refraction are only publishing this to share information, and are not taking any sides in this dispute.

My name is Alex Nichiporchik. I’m 28. Born in Latvia during the Soviet Union. Obsessive gamer since touching the NES for the first time. You may know me as the producer behind Hello Neighbor, Punch Club, or SpeedRunners, or as the guy who called out G2A for their questionable business model. Today I speak to you as a once-22-year old aspiring indie dev with a dream to make games. This has been 6 years in the making.

I understand this whole post may come off as a long rant, so will try to keep it as factual towards the timeline as possible. The goal here is to prevent indie developers from ever getting into situations like this. Situations that kill studios and ruin lives.

You’re reading the expanded and updated version of a post I wrote 2 years ago titled “Why The Original No Time to Explain sucked” on Gamasutra. In it, I described the early days of my ventures in indie games, and the first commercial game called No Time to Explain. A key factor in that story was that a Russian publisher called Buka Entertainment bailed on a financial commitment, essentially cutting the game’s budget in half. The e-mails outlined in this post are translated by me, so I expect independent 3rd parties to verify the translations. 

Short summary of the timeline:

March 30th 2011: Publisher (Buka) sends a publishing offer/inquiry for No Time to Explain

April 8th 2011: after some negotiations, the Publisher sends over the publishing offer [$24.5k in financing with half sent over on signing]

April 30th 2011: We come to terms and I send a signed digital copy of the agreement

May 5th 2011: Got confirmation, that the invoice I sent over is confirmed good and processing at finance (money will be sent soon)

May 13th 2011: Met and exchanged hardcopies of the contract

June 1st 2011: Get an answer after a few ignored e-mails saying that it’s all fine, money is coming

June 29th 2011: Get an e-mail that says our project is canned alongside several others.

May 11th 2017: the Publisher threatens to sue the Developer for spreading false information. Information that is outlined in this post.

May 18th 2017: The CEO of Buka threatens me in a personal meeting

June 19th 2017: I honor the original contract and send over the Gold Master of No Time to Explain, call for Buka Entertainment to honor their commitments

Let’s start from the beginning.

Back in 2011 I was working on No Time to Explain. It had a great Kickstarter(for the time, it’s before DoubleFine happened), and after raising a budget of $26k on the crowdfunding platform, we got contacted by a Russian publisher called BUKA Entertainment. 

Buka Entertainment wanted to publish our game in retail in Russian speaking countries, and also help it get onto Steam. They were ready to give us anadvance on royalties which was great. We’d use the money to create our game in a proper game engine (it was using Flash ActionScript 2 at that point, far from ideal for a desktop game). We negotiated the advance up a little bit. 

“Alex, my superiors are ready to raise the advance to 17,000 euro (~$24.5k) and accept your conditions. Awaiting your thoughts”

On April 8th 2011 we came to an agreement. They’d give us $24.5k (17k euros according to the exchange rate at the time) as advance on royalties, split into two payments. One on signing, and one on completely the gold master milestone. After going through the contract, I sent over a signed copy.

“Hello! Attached is a signed pdf. Awaiting your counter-signed version and the advance. Also we can arrange a meeting in Moscow on May 13th, I will have a few hours free in the morning” [context: I was in Moscow for a game development conference called DevGAMM where we met in person to exchange hardcopies]

Sent it over and was informed that I should send over the invoice. I sent over the invoice and got confirmation it was being processed.

We met, exchanged contracts. Everything seemed good.

Since then I sent a few e-mails and didn’t get much response, until this came in. You can see me sending a reminder mail above which says “Sending a reminder regarding previous e-mail”. 

“Hello Alex. Apologies for the silence, the previous letter got into spam. Yesterday I checked the payment, it’s currently pending to go out this month, so it’s not long left to wait. Regardless I apologize for the wait, we have a busy payment period for projects of the second half of year, they’re in a queue. I hope the wait won’t be long.”

What follows is a few weeks of silence. I’ve reminded a few more times until finally getting this soul-crushing response:

“Hello Alex. I regret to inform you, but my superiors have made the decision to terminate the contract. Sales of smaller and casual games have dropped catastrophically since the beginning of the year, we are forced to close several projects, including No Time to Explain. I am very sorry this happened. Wish you and your project good luck”.

I’m not going to dive into many details of how we did have to release No Time to Explain in Flash, how it took us 2 years from then to get to Steam via Greenlight, and how it ruined our first-start at indie games. These types of situations kill studios and a company that does this shouldn’t be called a publisher. 

Our world completely collapsed in on itself

We didn’t have the money or the experience to take legal action

It’s a large publishing company dropping a small indie studio

Fast-forward to 2017

A few weeks ago I noticed Buka is exhibiting at the same annual conference in Moscow where we met 6 years ago. We’re also attending. So I pinged them about the thread, trying to get them up to speed. I was met with a very defensive response. Curiously, they’ve ignored any previous attempts of contact until we became big enough to get noticed. 

They keep on asking for the copy of the original contract, which we’ll keep to ourselves for legal purposes after an inappropriate reaction to the inquiry. They also throw out credibility to any of the written down e-mail conversations where the payments, contracts, and even invoices are acknowledged. This didn’t seem to be worth the hassle, we didn’t have any financing or experience to take legal action initially, and today it didn’t seem worth my time. 

A few days after though, I got this e-mail:

“Alex, hello, I must insist that you send us a copy of the contract ASAP. At this point I am seeing your actions as unworthy PR based on lies. We are preparing counter actions.”

The person is referring to how since 2011 we have been open about what happened with Buka. I even made a presentation about it in 2013, how we got to Steam through greenlight and being dropped by a publisher. They ignored all of that, as I state in my response:

“[Blurred], this thread [it’s in the original thread about the publishing offer & all details] has plenty of proof that we had a deal in place. Instead of talking about the issue at hand, you are behaving as if I’m lying about this for 6 years now — do you want to say that you don’t have a copy of the contract? When we were a small developer and openly asked for help in this — your company kept silent. The only reason I’m raising this question right now is because I don’t want other smaller devs to suffer the same fate. If you call yourselves a publisher, you need to honor your agreements. One of our contracts was signed on a napkin. The beauty of our jurisdiction is that any document (a napkin or an e-mail) have legal weight. Honestly, it’s not about the 30k. It’s about the principle. Imagine how great of a PR move it would be if a publisher pays owed dues 6 years later. The media would love such a story. And we’d use this money as prize money for indie devs at DevGAMM Awards or donate to fighting cancer.” *note – we raised over $900k in the tinyBuild Humble Bundle since this thread happened, and the recommended charity during that bundle was 1UpOnCancer. I take pride in supporting causes like this.

Here’s the latest e-mail in that thread.

“Thing is that Buka during its 23 years of existence has never broken any of its agreements. Our legal system admits only signed agreements with stamps. Judging by the draft that you sent over, the country for settling disputes is Russia, and our company is registered here. In order to initiate a payment to a foreign entity you are required to open a passport of a deal and present a package of documents for currency control, which includes the agreement. Also, with our jurisdiction these kinds of disputes are solved very easily, especially as you say at the time you needed money, official letter to the name of the chief executive officer, with outlined description of the issue and attached documents. According to your agreement, if it was signed, the first payment should have gone through. You, for some reason, chose a different way and if you don’t have a signed agreement, then yes you are spreading false information. If I had a signed contract with you, I wouldn’t be asking for its copy, but would recommend to write an official request and we would move in that direction. Now we have two options Copy of the agreement – Official Complaint – Official Answer = we find solution to problem We prepare documents and sue you for slander “

My response has been basically the initial starting points to this article. I ask “Which part about this is a lie?” and link to the images that are embedded into this thread. However, do note that I highlighted them saying they’ve never broken any agreements. Earlier in this post, in the response that we’re being shutdown, it says “we are forced to close several projects”. I’m wondering if that’s a flat out lie.

1. In order to to initiate a payment from one company to another we need merit 2. In Russia such merit is a signed copy from two sides + a stamp of the Russian company, and an invoice (in order to initiate a payment to a foreign company additional documents are required for financial control) 3. If the contract was signed, then in order to cancel it, an e-mail from a manager is not enough .There has to be a document signed by the signee, not a simple manager [redacted name] 4. If you have such documents, you write an official letter — a complaint towards the CEO, attach copies of all documents and send them by mail to the address in my signature. Within the lawfully allowed timeframes we will give you an official answer. 5. Before I see the documents (with the understanding that possibly an employee has gone above his authority while talking to you), I must assume that you are spreading false information and am forced to take defensive action.

TL;DR Buka is pretending as if it never had an agreement with tinyBuild, that it doesn’t owe anyone money, is lying about never cancelling projects, and after threatening to sue tinyBuild for not keeping quiet about it discredits ex-employee who made original deal. Make your own conclusions. 

This is coming from their current Head of Projects. The previous person I dealt with was Head of Licensing. Does this mean some sort of Head of Business will come in next and say the previous head had no authority to threaten with a lawsuit? 

I have contacted the CEO of Buka directly about this, asking for a call to de-escalate the situation. My requests for an urgent call have been ignored and instead they’ve been trying to force a personal meeting. 

Threats and lies during a personal meeting

In Moscow on May 18th I was enjoying a gamedev networking party. Suddenly the CEO of Buka showed up and aggressively demanded to speak. I politely told him that per instructions of our legal counsel, I will not have a dialogue without the presence of lawyers. Lawsuit threats are serious business. 

He proceeded to talk anyway. What came out of his mouth was a series of threats and lies. He was saying things like “there is no contract” “you will lose in court” “you stand no chance”. Apparently smiling makes some people angry — so in reaction to me smiling and nodding he said we should sue them, so I laughed, thanked him for attending the event, and advised him to enjoy the party. 

He proceeded to storm off never to be seen again. It still baffles me how could someone so confidently lie to my face. 

How Buka Approaches Indies

I’m going to finish off this blog post with an e-mail that Buka sends when hunting for indie titles. This e-mail has been sent to one of our devs before we started working together. It’s a reply to asking what kind of services Buka offers:

“By publishing the digital version we mean selling the game on the Steam platform, where we will be mentioned as the publisher and you will be credited as the developer. If you’re interested in the financial side of things, we can form a commercial offer based on how ready the project is and how much time is needed. Under marketing we plan to use our standard marketing support: news blast to Russian and Foreign media channels. Paid and free announcements in Russian and foreign social groups. Plus Steam release campaign support: we guarantee placement on the homepage with an audience of 500,000 views, placements in the New section, discounts (if you have a start discount), and so on. If you have a trailer, we can use the catalog of videotrailers, which has a guaranteed number of views”.

The highlighted part is what should raise eyebrows. They’re telling developers they can guarantee 500k views on the homepage during launch. Which is what every single game on Steam used to get at the time. It’s essentially saying “give us a % of the sales and we’ll push this button”. They also guarantee placements in the New & Discounts section on launch. Again, this is what every game on Steam got.  

TL;DR Buka is pretending as if it never had an agreement with tinyBuild, that it doesn’t owe anyone money, is lying about never cancelling projects, and after threatening to sue tinyBuild for not keeping quiet about it discredits ex-employee who made original deal. Make your own conclusions. 

Honoring Agreements

Despite all this — the lies, the threats, and the indecency on Buka Entertainment’s leadership part, I am still honoring our agreement. I have just sent over the Gold Master for No Time To Explain (Remastered). That version has been built in Unity, and is the Remaster we also released on consoles. I am granting BUKA full rights to distribute it in Russian retail according to the original agreement. The only thing I ask for is to honor their end of the agreement with adjustment for late payments.

I took an 8% annual interest feeand applied it to the original USD amount. The total comes up to $38,878. If Buka Entertainment pays for this, I will throw in $11,122 of my own money and create a $50k Russian Indie Dev Fund (meaning Russian-speaking, this covers all post-soviet countries, what people typically call Eastern Europe or CIS). This fund will be distributed amongst top 3 Russian indie projects by independent judges during DevGAMM Minsk 2017 in November. This fund will change lives, and it’s only fitting to have a happy end at the same event where it seemingly had a happy beginning.

If they don’t pay up, I’m calling for an industry-wide ban on Buka Entertainment’s conference attendance. If they can’t sell themselves at industry events, they won’t be able to scam devs and ruin lives.

Link to Original Blog Post: http://www.tinybuild.com/single-post/buka-entertainment-scam

Russian publisher ‘Buka’ shafted us out of $24k & threatens to sue when confronted – From the eyes of tinyBuild was originally published on Game-Refraction

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