The Day Before - What Happened?
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Edited By: Greg S-C - / dykgreg
SkeleMatt art by: Dan Walker - / donwoka
Intro By: 2Snacks / 2manysnacks and Little V Mills / littlevmills
Written Sources:
Interview with Ex-Fntastic Developer via DualShockers - www.dualshockers.com/the-day-...
Singapore Game Development Assistance Programs via IGEA - igea.net/wp-content/uploads/2...
The Day Before Announcement via IGN - www.ign.com/articles/the-day-...
The Day Before Delayed via IGN - www.ign.com/articles/the-day-...
The Day Before Trademark Dispute via IGN - www.ign.com/articles/the-day-...
The Day Before Metrics via SteamDB - steamdb.info/app/1372880/info/
Fntastic Defends volunteers via Eurogamer - www.eurogamer.net/delayed-ste...
The Day Before Delayed due to switch to Unreal 5 via GamesRadar - www.gamesradar.com/open-world...
The Day Before Trademark Dispute via Kotaku - www.kotaku.com.au/2023/01/the...
Messy Friday The 13th lawsuit via Collider - collider.com/friday-the-13th-...
The Day Before Delayed due to a calendar app via GamesRadar - www.gamesradar.com/the-day-be...
The Day Before delayed a week before launch via gamesindustry.biz - www.gamesindustry.biz/the-day...
The Day Before shuts down via Dexerto - www.dexerto.com/gaming/day-be...
The Day Before Servers shutting down - www.ign.com/articles/the-day-...
Video Sources:
The Day Before - Official Gameplay Overview & Release Date Trailer - IGN • The Day Before - Offic...
The Day Before - Official Trailer - IGN - • The Day Before - Offic...
The Day Before - Exclusive Official Gameplay Trailer - IGN - • The Day Before - Exclu...
The Day Before Early Access Video Review - IGN - • The Day Before Early A...
The Day Before Official Gameplay Overview and Early Access - Gamespot- • The Day Before Officia...
Propnight: 16 Minutes of Gameplay - IGN - • Propnight: 16 Minutes ...
The Day Before copying other game trailers - Randomly - • The Day Before copying...
The Day Before - Official Release Date Trailer - IGN - • The Day Before - Offic...
The Day Before IGN Fan Fest - www.ign.com/videos/the-day-be...
BACK 4 BLOOD Official Trailer (2021) Zombie Game HD - ONE Media - • BACK 4 BLOOD Official ...
Dead Island: Official Announcement Trailer - IGN - • Dead Island: Official ...
Life at Fntastic - Louwhay - • Life at Fntastic
One HUGE Lie - Confirms The Day Before Developer... - LtBuzzLitebeer - • One HUGE Lie - Confirm...
The Wild Eight - Gameplay - SergiuHellDragoonHQ - • The Wild Eight - Gamep...
Travel Singapore in a Minute - Aerial Drone Video | Expedia - expediasea - • Travel Singapore in a ...
The Day Before is AMAZING... - DirtyDanGaming - • The Day Before is AMAZ...
The Day Before vs The Day After - Details and Physics Comparison - GameLight • The Day Before vs The ...
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Is this the record for fastest 'What Happened' ever from the game's release to actual episode?
Me having a hangover: "the day before - what happened?"
Fntastic invited us to take part in a test task of writing a soundtrack for their game. The task was formulated as poorly as possible and with contradictions, and they gave 2 references, each of which is different from the other and not similar to what was in the task text. As a result, we were not hired, and, of course, the task was not paid for; they chose a person who did not even try to somehow fulfill the points written in the task, but did something completely different: an ordinary trailer track.
Their Discord server was also OBLITERATED by people that played the game. It got so bad, that they DELETED THE SERVER IN ITS ENTIRETY
For a game that was supposedly hyped to the moon, I never heard of it until after it came out.
The head devs giving an address while petting a dog should have been an obvious red flag for anyone who's seen any kind of apology video
The fact that they deployed a Doggo Of Distraction in one of their videos was a huge red flag. Reeks of the "your employer telling you
I remember someone commented that "Matt McMuscle will make a 'What happened' episode of this game", during the release night of Day Before. Well here it is, he got his wish.
So these brothers behind the Fntastic studio basically scammed the Singapore government out of grant money that would've otherwise gone to a legit game development studio.
This game is what would happen if Ed Edd N Eddy decided to be game developers.
To be fair, making your game unavailable a few days after release is very innovative
Anyone who has ever worked in the industry knew it would be a scam.
There is an investigative video I watched that used admissions from former workers, and basically the last part from this video is key. The bros pretty much hired inexperienced developers and put them through hell. They would constantly demand new things inspired by popular games. It didn't even start as multiplayer - they just "suggested" (mandated) it later. Huge amounts of work would constantly get scrapped. Basically the brothers were some of the most incompetent, insane bosses imaginable, and they kept luring inexperienced people to work on their game with promises of working on an AAA product.
The fact they start 'defending' using asking for Volunteers for their 'childhood dream' by giving a definition of the word Volunteer tells me what they REALLY thought of their audience. Thinking about it now, adding that to opening where they get financial assistance delayed repeatedly and had volunteers work on it, people were right to be cautious, it sounds like the plan from the start was to cut and run.
It's still nuts to see The Day Before become a literal non-entity within the span of a week.
Boy, I kind of wonder how all those people who kept insulting everybody who were sceptical about this scam are coping.
Everything about these two guys screams "I've finished a get-rich-quick course, here's my certificate"
The worst part about this whole thing is that the game they promised is absolutely possible to build if they really wanted to.
My god. When someone opens their counterargument to accusations of using volunteers to avoid paid labor with breaking down the etymology of the word "volunteer", you know Some Shit is up 😬
Despite being so wishlisted, I had no idea that this game even existed until it shambled into Early Access and unceremoniously died