this kind of thing is why i am very skeptical of and keep my distance from the indie game dev scene. have a community that tight-knit, that everyone wants to be part of, and that actually gets money in? you just know at some point some sociopaths are going to get in and work that sucker to death.
in fact i'm by default mistrustful of these things. it's outside the norm that i even sit here at all and talk to y'all