Hmm, I feel like this is a good time to drop this here.
I'm guessing many of you guys know who I am by now, or know/heard of my game. I was once contacted for publishing by Alex, back in 2016, back when my game was called "Retro-Pixel Castles" it has sense been renamed to "Rise to Ruins". I've turned him down twice for publishing, but we had a great fairly professional chat though and he seems like a nice guy, so I was mostly staying out of the drama and watching it unfold.
But, it seems Mr. Alex is trying to play off his involvement with these games as "his work" when in fact, he's really just a glorified marketing guy. He, as far as I can tell, had absolutely no involvement in actual development. Although, the way he words things implies he is. He's also a bit too liberal with keys.
In these PMs he even mentioned working with the /u/The_Big_Boss_1080 (Vitali) and giving him a copy of my game, but oddly enough, Vitali did not seem to know who I was or anything about my game when I contacted him today, curious about all this. (Although admittedly, I did not ask)
Until these threads popped up, I assumed Alex was the developer of Pixel Piracy, Privateers and /u/losingbefun Region of Ruins. His wording implies a direct relationship with these developers as-if he's on-staff, side by side, working on the game to the point I just assumed he was a huge part of their development.
I hope Alex will pop up and clarify this, as he seems like a nice guy from my interactions with him. But this isn't really looking good.
I don't like taking sides, but I thought I should be open and honest, and see where it leads. But things do seem fishy when you start connecting the dots.