This content is hosted on an external platform, which will only display it if you accept targeting cookies. I worked hundreds of hours and wasn't paid a single cent for it while the company made unbelievable amounts of money off of my labour, and that of around a dozen other unpaid workers.- emotional rollercoaster tycoon August 28, 2019 I started out my gamedev career working on starbound for almost two years. 'But this is indisputable truth, and I am, for now, in a stable and safe position. I spent a long time being very afraid that talking about this would tank my career,' Reece added. it doesn't mean they weren't exploited too. 'A couple of them ended up working at the company. 'I worked hundreds of hours and wasn't paid a single cent for it while the company made unbelievable amounts of money off of my labour, and that of around a dozen other unpaid workers. I was sixteen,' said Damon Reece on Twitter (thanks, PC Gamer). 'I started out my gamedev career working on Starbound for almost two years. Chucklefish has formally responded to allegations it exploited a number of volunteer contributors when it launched Starbound back in 2016.ĭamon Reece - who is credited as a writer on the space exploration game - revealed on Twitter that they had worked 'hundreds of hours' for free 'while the company made unbelievable amounts of money off of labour, and that of around a dozen other unpaid workers'.

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