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Joshua Wolens

The Day Before studio is up to its old tricks, asking people to design maps for free in a contest whose lucky winner will get their work in a game, a free copy, and no money whatsoever

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In a move absolutely everyone could have seen coming, disgraced game studio Fntastic—the one responsible for the self-immolation of the former most-wishlisted game on Steam—is up to its old tricks. A month after resurrecting itself with a promise to base its development and marketing on the principle of honesty "from now on," the studio is once again asking people to develop its games for it for free (via TheGamer).

Fntastic announced it was working on a game, a multiplayer prop-hunt thing called Items, last week (immediately after it cancelled a Kickstarter that raised around $3k of its $20k goal). Now it just needs, uh, someone to make it. That someone could be you! That is, if you sign up for a "contest" the studio just announced in its official Discord.

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