In the post ( which you can read here), HopFrog blames:Īs a result, HopFrog is offering refunds to anyone who had paid for it already, and giving out all the remaining Multiplayer Beta keys for free. ![]() Recently, HopFrog posted on his Patreon, saying that the planned Multiplayer Update - for which he had hired more people - had been cancelled, due to a host of different issues. It reminded me of that GDC talk he was planning to make in 2020, claiming he was a "solo dev", dismissing everyone else who worked on the game /P08F3eBHqJ- DeadKat - AVM owner April 13, 2021 The way the patreon post is worded and its overall tone, what YAL had to say about it. Everything about this is absolutely horrendous. Still, you'll find that many of Forager's reviews call it a solo project, developed from Cavallero's own Game Jam idea. Perhaps, for the majority of the development period, it was mostly his work - but HopFrog hired multiple programmers to help out, and had an artist named Gaziter creating art from the beginning of the game's development. ![]() The game was hugely popular, selling 600,000 copies in its first year on Steam, and became another success story for a single developer working on a passion project.Įxcept Forager was not a solo project. Don't be fooled: some of the cutest games out there have a dark side, and it seems like Forager - a 2019 "solo dev" project by HopFrog, real name Mariano Cavellero, that fuses Animal Crossing and Harvest Moon - is no different.
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