For anyone who isn't in the Block Story discord or is confused what is happening:
TL;DR: Former Block Story creator has doxxed and harassed current lead developer, used AI, supports Russia's attacks on Ukraine, and encouraged false reporting of Xcellorator's Youtube channel and the game on Steam. Support Xcellorator and the Discord Block Story team.
For those who did not know, that is Xcellorator. Current head developer of Block Story, and long time member of the community. They did not make the game, that was Paul Pacheco. For the past year or two, Xcellorator has been the owner of the Block Story IP under Big Cube Interactive with the lead developer being HeadHunter, one of the original developers from 2011-2012 (dates are unclear to me).
Things move quickly from here.
On Monday night, Xcellorator made this announcement:
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HeadHunter was no longer a member of the development team going forward from March, for "the long-term stability, direction, and compliance of the project." The rest of the message was about how development would continue.
On Tuesday night, Xcellorator posted this update:
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The situation escalated into a dispute between Xcellorator and HeadHunter over who owns the game, and how development should go. Then, it became personal attacks from HeadHunter, including doxxing. This included things posted directly to the main Block Story website, and the full name and addresses of both Xcellorator and former developer Paul Pacheco.
These are only the screenshots I recovered from the discord, there were others that were deleted before I decided to make this post in order to prevent harassment of other former developers along with HeadHunter themself.
Former Block Story creator Svetlana has also doxxed Xcellorator
Proof that HeadHunter used and supported the use of AI for creative aspects of Block Story's development:
Ukraine allegations proof:
