

"There are a lot of underage people on our forums. To clarify, it's not a serious "We're delaying the game!" sort of deal, but situations like this do distract from actual game development."

Just in case anyone is wondering."Ĭommunity manager Molly Carroll elaborated further in this post on Reddit: ""The person in question has been permanently banned and we're looking into how to proceed re: involving authorities. Indie developers Chucklefish have been forced to temporarily halt development on their game Starbound in order to assist police investigate an individual who has been using the game and its forums as a means of targeting young children.įinn "Tiy" Brice confirmed the delay on Twitter with the following statement: "Delaying development to deal with a sexual predator targeting children.
