Shooting games that collect 10 million yen in Kurafan, production costs are a planner a planner. Is the game completed?

Pixel, Inc., a developer in Japan, announced that he had filed a lawsuit against Mr. Oori Furukawa on March 7th. The company was telling the development of Shooting Games " Steam Pyrotz " and had trouble with Mr. Furukawa.

"Steam Pirots" is a vertical scroll shooter that has been developed for PC. The project was launched by the former Konami's composer, Mr. Furukawa and the manager rainyard weather. As your own machine, use the "Seven Wings", which makes full use of different weapons, such as hammer and speedbirds. As the difficulty level, three steps of easy / normal / hardware were prepared, and it was supposed to respond widely from beginners to advanced people. This project started cloudfanding since 2019 and conducts twice funding. Succeeded in acquiring more than 10 million yen in total.

A large number of prominent creators participate in the project. Sasaki Hiso, who is a representative of Pixel Co., Ltd., such as so. According to the released statement this time, Mr. Sasaki participated in Furukawa's project June 2019. Originally Mr. Furukawa had progressed a project of another game, but the developer drops due to the right problem. As being in a difficult situation, he instead asked Mr. Sasaki to develop development.

At this time, due to the reasons that Furukawa can not be prepared immediately after the development cost, we agreed by sharing the benefits obtained by the game sales. Game specifications have been recognized that Mr. Sasaki was a simple shooter game, a short-term development that can be a short-term development as a premise of sales at events. And the contract at this point was verbally carried out.

But then the project is enlarged. Started as a plan for "Steam Pyrotz" and the development scale has expanded. At this time, the cloud fundeing aimed at raising the game development costs is conducted by Mr. Furukawa to eliminate the development costs of the shortfall. Mr. Sasaki also agreed to cooperate with the goal.

Based on this, the pixel requires the payment of development costs regarding the funding funds. Mr. Furukawa's manager and rainywater weather gained a payment agreement. However, after that, although remittances from the cloudfunding platform MAKUAKE to Furukawa have been completed, it has not been paid to pixels.

During the development period, I did not explain about the assumption of the payment of a proceeds in which Mr. Furukawa is presented at the beginning of the contract. Therefore, in July 2021, the pixel requested an explanation of details such as initial sales. In response to this, I will explain from Mr. Furukawa. Among them, new condition changes were also presented. As pixels have an unwillful part, there was an agreement on the development expenses payment by Mr. Amamiya, and development was decided to continue their participation because the development was lined up.

However, the next August, a huge data has been sent from Furukawa side, and there is an increase in work. As a pixel, development continance to the development expenses have been limited. Therefore, we sent content certification on November 24, 2021, and the data for completion of "steam pilots" and the right to deliver the rights of the deliverables, the payment of rewards.

Under these circumstances, in the negotiations through both Pixel and Furukawa, Pixel claims that Pixel answered the question and request of Furukawa. However, for the question sent from Pixel to Furukawa in January 2022, it was said that there was no reply. And this year, pixel announced that it will be released from the production of "Steam Pyrotz". Followed February 16, a lawsuit. Pixel, a pixel, as Furukawa, was a claim based on a liked claim based on the defendment of the contract law, preliminary claims based on the compensation of the contract law, and a reward request based on Article 512 of the Commercial Law. The complaint is submitted to the Sendai District Court. In addition, the amount of damages claimed is different from regular development costs.

In this case, the magazine sent a question to the pixel. According to the response, the operations in charge of "Steam Pyrotz" development are diverse. He is a game design direction specification formulation, creator mediation, program, dot picture, rough illustration production, character draft, mechanical design, animation production, implementation of SE / serif, UI design, logo design, PV production and others, very It seems that he was underwriting a wide range of operations.

In addition, Mr. Furukawa destroys the rights about the artifacts produced in this way. Current rights are on the pixel side. Therefore, the possibility that the game of the video and image content listed on the cloud fundine page reaches the supporter is considerably lower regardless of the result of the lawsuit. In addition, it is said that the questionnaire is sent from Pixel to Furukawa for more than $ 10 million yen from Makuake to Furukawa, and to reveal the use from Pixel to Furukawa. However, this is still not a response.

Pixel is developing an action game "Asteron Ryu Hist Chaoomei" and a horizontal scroll shooting "Asteria wing" as a thousand titles. However, for these titles, we announced release postponement in November 2021. For the inquiry of the magazine, pixels revealed that the cause of the development delay of these works was work compression by "Steam Pyrotz" development.

Where Pixel was transmitted to the magazine, the contact from Furukawa has been conducted by the telephone, so it is a situation where no contract will remain. There are no records in the document, and it is opaque that this trial goes to either way.

With regard to this matter, it is reported by the user that there was an announcement from Furukawa to Cloud Funding Support on March 5th. According to the notification, the "Steam Pyrot's" project is to continue games for new programmers. However, since the programmer is currently in response to another project, the commit to "Steam Pyrotz" is early and it will be late in April. As for Furukawa, "Steam Pyrotz" is expected to be expected to be about one year later. The magazine also asks for comments from Furukawa to this claim.