The Fortune's Run developer known only as Dizzie has revealed that development on the game will end...because they're going to prison.

The developer of well-received Steam Early Access first-person shooter Fortune's Run has ceased work on the game after receiving a three-year prison sentence. In a shock announcement on the Fortune’s Run Steam page,

The developer's imprisonment has put a stop to the work on Fortune's Run. He's committed to finishing it, but it's hard to say what the future holds.

I’ve been sentenced to prison for the next 3 years,” they wrote on the game’s Steam page. “It’s a long story, but I’ve lived a very different life before I was a game developer, and I wasn’t living very well.

Retro immersive-sim Fortune's Run has had its early access development paused due to its sole developer being sentenced to prison. In an update on Steam, developer Dizzie explained why the game's other developer left the project and admitted to being sentenced to three years in prison,