Ant Simulator Update: The Wrong Pair Accused, a Villian Discovered?!

Yesterday,I reported that the developer behind Ant Simulator had taken to YouTube to explain to fans how the game, despite being a promising strategy title currently in beta with quite a bit of success, was being canceled due to… let’s say “misappropriation of funds”. Basically, Eric Tereshinski, the coder behind the game, accused his two other business partners of taking Kickstarter money and using it to buy a gratuitous amount of food, booze, and drugs, leaving them bankrupt… and their friendship in tatters. The game was canceled, and information on how to get refunds were promised to be delivered to backers and buyers.

And that was sad. But this is the internet. We all knew this wasn’t where it was going to end—and gosh, have things picked up now. The two accused partners have now stepped up and spoken out against Eric to Game Informer, calling him ‘greedy’ and accusing him of exaggeration.
 

“It's completely false. I don't know why he's painting that picture, but the reality is that anything that was spent in a bar or restaurant was very reasonable in nature when you look at any business, including video game companies. It was part of our operating budget, it's not anything that was excessive. It was all reported to the IRS. The picture he's painting about that is 100 percent bull****."

What I find interesting here is that they aren’t denying SOME of the Kickstarter money, at least, went to food and booze. That’s… not really how it’s supposed to work there, gents, but don’t let me interrupt you: you were saying?
 

"The important thing to realize is that the ETeeski team wasn't just us three. We had a lot of contractors. Nine or ten people who worked on this game. Models, rigging, our environmental art, and our human art, were all done through contractors ... He's making this claim that we spent all this money on expensive entertainment, and that's completely false. We paid all these people who worked for us."

But that’s not all. They didn’t just deny any wrongdoing, rather, they blamed Eric for having gone crazy last November, took control of the game’s funding by moving it into personal accounts, and demanding a higher cut of earnings. They also say he donated the least to the start-up the firm used, so, he had less of a right to it than the other two.

Seems a lot of stones are being thrown. What will happen next? Lord knows I’m on the edge of my seat!