A saga of minimum wage, late payments, and Steam bans.
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. 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.
Except Forager was not a solo project. 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. Still, you’ll find that many of Forager’s reviews call it a solo project, developed from Cavallero’s own Game Jam idea.
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