
30 || ace transfem || character design and illustration are my passions. its 2020 get some cake.
yeah they pulled in shitloads of random teen pixel artists, and whether piecemeal or in some cases through months long systemic underpayment or denial of payment a good portion of the game's assets, at least for a certain development period, were mostly stolen or pried from said overwhelmingly-queer-in-demographic teen pixel artists. i wouldn't know where to find a good unified source on this 'scandal' because it was mostly something that was a small random story about a few people and then like every trans woman sprite enjoyer alive came out in the 2-3 years after that initial story to say "they got me too" but i dont think it ever really got further coverage
oh! The Wikipedia page for the game has a subsection on it, cites a few articles about it from 2019-2020
They also hired Toby Fox before Undertale came out to compose the menu theme, rejected the theme he made, and then added it back in as an easter egg after UT blew up.
I have GOT to go read up on this, I was wondering about this game occasionally for years as someone who was anticipating it since 2018 because the development was just so fucking odd