{"id":5674,"date":"2022-08-24T11:17:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T11:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/24\/dev-delays-a-space-for-the-unbound-after-feeling-exploited-by-publisher\/"},"modified":"2022-08-24T11:17:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T11:17:01","slug":"dev-delays-a-space-for-the-unbound-after-feeling-exploited-by-publisher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/24\/dev-delays-a-space-for-the-unbound-after-feeling-exploited-by-publisher\/","title":{"rendered":"Dev Delays &#8216;A Space For The Unbound&#8217; After Feeling &#8216;Exploited&#8217; By Publisher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;We are absolutely heartbroken that a party we worked with would do this&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Toge Productions and Mojiken Studios have announced that their gorgeous pixel art adventure game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/a_space_for_the_unbound\">A Space for the Unbound<\/a> has been delayed on consoles &#8220;until further notice&#8221; due to issues with the game&#8217;s western publisher, PQube Games.<\/p>\n<p>The Indonesian-based companies have accused PQube Games of using their position and Indonesian heritage &#8220;to obtain a diversity fund from a well-known console platform&#8221; which is a grant that&#8217;s meant to help out underrepresented game developers. This was set up during the pandemic. However, Toge and Mojiken state that PQube &#8220;withheld information about the grant and used it as a leverage for their own commercial gain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/dev-delays-a-space-for-the-unbound-after-feeling-exploited-by-publisher\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Dev Delays &#8216;A Space For The Unbound&#8217; After Feeling &#8216;Exploited&#8217; By Publisher<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;We are absolutely heartbroken that a party we worked with would do this&#8221;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Toge Productions and Mojiken Studios have announced that their gorgeous pixel art adventure game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/a_space_for_the_unbound\">A Space for the Unbound<\/a> has been delayed on consoles &#8220;until further notice&#8221; due to issues with the game&#8217;s western publisher, PQube Games.<\/p>\n<p>The Indonesian-based companies have accused PQube Games of using their position and Indonesian heritage &#8220;to obtain a diversity fund from a well-known console platform&#8221; which is a grant that&#8217;s meant to help out underrepresented game developers. This was set up during the pandemic. However, Toge and Mojiken state that PQube &#8220;withheld information about the grant and used it as a leverage for their own commercial gain&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/08\/dev-delays-a-space-for-the-unbound-after-feeling-exploited-by-publisher\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}