A Space for the Unbound News

Hello, Space Divers!

We are so thankful that this year we have the opportunity to attend the Tokyo Game Show 2022. Massive shoutout to our friends at Chorus Worldwide Games for the assistance. A Space For The Unbound is also featured on Tokyo Game Show 2022 Steam event page. We hope our friends in Japan can try out the demo at TGS 2022!

Tokyo Game Show 2022 is happening from September 15 to September 18 at Makuhari Messe Convention Center, Chiba, Japan. Visit and play the demo of A Space For The Unbound, both on PC and console!

You can try out the PC demo version available at the Chorus Worldwide Games booth. Feel free to try out other games published under Chorus Worldwide Games, such as Frank and Drake, Varney Lake, Lost in Play, and Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER.

Please do drop by and say hello to our friends at Chorus Worldwide friends attending the booth!



You can also check out the console version of A Space For The Unbound demo at the Konami booth in Hall 5.



Come and visit us, bring your friends and families together, and try the A Space For The Unbound demo!


Stay safe and healthy, friends!

Mojiken and Toge Productions team.

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Another indie developer has come forward publicly with allegations that UK-based publishers PQube have withheld money from them. Thai dev team Corecell claim they’ve only seen some of the minimum guaranteed money agreed when they signed the European console publishing rights to their action-puzzle game AeternoBlade 2 over to PQube in 2019.

Corecell say they attempted to resolve things with PQube but that didn’t work, and they had to terminate the publishing agreement in 2020. Since then, Corecell have tried to regain the rights to AeternoBlade 2 from PQube to no avail. Corecell allege that PQube did offer to return the rights to the game, but only if they would agree to keep the situation secret.

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The developers of indie slice-of-life adventure A Space For The Unbound allege that the game’s console publisher in western regions, PQube, withheld information about a diversity grant and used that to leverage for a greater share of the game’s revenue. Mojiken Studio say they were left feeling “manipulated and exploited” by the UK-based publisher’s actions. The Indonesian team have now terminated their contract with PQube and delayed A Space For The Unbound until they can find another publisher.

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Dear space divers,

We are sad to announce that we will be delaying the release of A Space For The Unbound until further notice.

Earlier this year we discovered that PQube Games, a UK-based publisher that we signed for the console publishing of A Space For The Unbound for western regions had done certain things which have left us feeling manipulated and exploited, and so we have had to terminate our agreement with them.

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in August 2020, PQube Games used our position and heritage as developers from Indonesia to obtain a diversity fund from a well known console platform. The diversity fund was a grant fund intended to help underrepresented game developers, especially during the pandemic. However, instead of giving those funds to the developers as the grant was intended, PQube Games intentionally withheld information about the grant and used it as a leverage for their own commercial gain. Rather than paying the grant money to us, PQube Games hid the facts about the grant’s award and added it as a recoupable minimum guarantee and then used it to negotiate the increase of their revenue share. We have only uncovered the true amount of these funds and their intended purposes in March 2022.

We are absolutely heartbroken that a party we worked with would do this and a project we have worked on for 7 years has been taken advantage of in such a way. Since the uncovering of this issue, we clearly cannot trust PQube Games nor continue to work together for the release of A Space For The Unbound as PQube Games has fallen considerably short not only of reasonable decency, but also of their obligations to us due to these predatory practices.

We have to make a stand against exploitative publishers and speak up about this to stop things like this from happening again in the future. Thus, we are also announcing that we have terminated our contract with PQube Games.

As of this moment, PQube Games is still refusing to hand over publishing control on console platforms back to us. It is with a heavy heart that we must hold back the release of A Space For The Unbound so that we can make new arrangements and ensure that it is published as intended and in a way that is consistent with our and our community’s values.

Signed,
Toge Productions and Mojiken Studio

Hello, Space Divers!

We are so grateful to have the opportunity to attend Gamescom 2022!
The offline event will start from August 24 to August 28 at Koelnmesse, Germany.
You can also attend Indie Arena Booth Online if you can't make it physically.

You can visit our booth at Indie Arena Booth area Hall 10.2, booth no. 57. The game will be showcased alongside other great indie games in the center indie area.

You can refer to Indie Arena Booth high-res official map in case you need some pointers. Many indie games are being showcased, and you might be interested in checking some of them out.

Dive into the world of A Space for the Unbound, bring your friends and family, and try out the demo!




Feel free to post your experience and tag us on our social media, so we know you attended the booth! You might just be in for a surprise~

Stay safe and healthy, friends!

Mojiken and Toge Productions team.

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