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Amid accusations of harassment and bad business practices, Ben Judd has resigned or been removed from his positions as CEO of Dangen, VP of DDM Japan, and more

Posted by Deimos
Tags: japan, indie, business, ceo, ben judd, publishing, company culture, dangen, harassment.sexual, author.rebekah valentine, source.gamesindustry, long read
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-12-16-ben-judd-departs-dangen-ddm-amid-accusations-of-sexual-harassment-bad-business-practices

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Ben Judd departs Dangen, DDM amid accusations of harassment, bad business
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  1. Deimos
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    This has been a real saga over the last few weeks. I've been following it on and off, but there's so much to it that it's difficult for me to even think about where to start explaining it. So I'm...

    This has been a real saga over the last few weeks. I've been following it on and off, but there's so much to it that it's difficult for me to even think about where to start explaining it. So I'm really glad that GamesIndustry got involved, did research, independently verified a lot of the information, and published this article. It's been mostly ignored by other gaming outlets, and this seems to be the most comprehensive coverage.

    If you're interested in the situation and want to dive into the rabbit-hole, be prepared for it to take quite a few hours to get through everything. There are multiple extremely long posts that are on Wordpress.com now, after Dangen got them taken down from Medium. There are a ton of massive Twitter threads and arguments, split across English and Japanese. There's a bunch of information scattered around about developers not getting paid, and effectively losing control of their own games. It's a gigantic mess.

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    Dangen's new CEO made a post today about some of their plans: Statement on Moving Forward from DANGEN's New CEO GamesIndustry contacted the Devil Engine developer for comment, and he doesn't seem...

    Dangen's new CEO made a post today about some of their plans: Statement on Moving Forward from DANGEN's New CEO

    GamesIndustry contacted the Devil Engine developer for comment, and he doesn't seem optimistic still, and isn't even confident that the sales numbers they're giving him are true.