10 More Video Games Cancelled For Ridiculous Reasons

9. The Budget Was Spent On Booze, Restaurants & Strippers - Ant Simulator

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Though it wasn't nearly as hyped as Battlefront III (obviously), Ant Simulator did nevertheless capture the Internet's imagination with its novel what-you-see-is-what-you-get concept.

Ant Simulator was a project spearheaded by Eric Tereshinski, who acquired $4,400 in development funds by creating a series of game creation YouTube tutorials via Kickstarter.

However, in early 2016 Tereshinski posted a video announcing that his two business partners, Tyler Monce and Devon Staley, had spent both the initial funding and also some additional development money on hitting the town. He said:

"They had secretly spent the overwhelming majority of both our Kickstarter money and the Ant Simulator investment money on liquor, restaurants, bars, and even strippers."

For their part, Monce and Staley refuted the claims and even considered legal action, but all the same, production on Ant Simulator was shuttered without sufficient funding to complete it, and has scarcely been spoken about since.

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