Hello. Most people reading this likely won't recognize me, but I was a tester for the game dating back to October of last year. I wanted to make this post to share my experience with the team, despite not being on it for very long.

When I got accepted to the team after having applied to Weshek, I was excited. After all, I'd get to work alongside a lot of talented people (including some well-known fangame developers). I had been given the same contract that was shown in the document exposing him, but not having very much background on legalities, I didn't recognize that there were some very questionable things inside of it (and therefore thought it was fine to accept). Looking back, I realize that I should've done more background research before choosing to accept it.

Things didn't really start to look bad in my eyes until I saw the announcements made relating to one of the modelers getting fired and threatened, as well as the fact that we were all pinged in the dev server to cut all forms of contact with him.

Things really started to get bad when I shared the contract Weshek had given me with a close friend of mine, and he informed me that the contract meant nothing and only served as a way of putting pressure on individuals (and threatening them if they disobeyed Weshek's orders in a serious manner). I was also informed of Ivan not knowing about the contracts and other things Weshek had implemented in his abscence. At this point, I knew that the project was in a lot of trouble, and something would eventually give (aka someone would eventually speak out about Weshek). This same friend later warned me about the expose document a day before it was published.

Lastly came the day of the expose document. Whilst the server's text channels were going crazy (as I was told by a friend), the moderators were all speaking out against Weshek (despite him trying to explain himself, and saying that he didn't care very much about how people felt about him after reading the document). If any of the server moderators are reading this post, thank you for speaking up in a situation where you could've chosen not to say anything. The server would be deleted, Ivan would start a discussion with us to ask how we felt about the project, and in the end it was decided it would be cancelled.

It's also worth mentioning that I didn't know anything about the VIP service not giving as much as Weshek said it would, since being a J4 team member and server moderator did not automatically give me access to the VIP channels. I wasn't very active in the server in general, therefore I didn't notice anything suspicious from what Weshek was telling everyone.

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Now, what did I contribute while I was on the team?

Honestly, not a whole lot. Since I was hired as a feedbacker during a time where there hadn't been a build for a while, there wasn't much for me to do in the developer server apart from comment on what other people were working on. However, I did get to give feedback on a document whose purpose was to revise the mechanics for the office section of the night. Despite it now being unused, I still want to show it off just so people can see another thing that was planned for the now-cancelled game. You can download it here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/szmwvogwrdsst89/The_Office_Document_%2528J4%2529.docx.pdf/file

One other thing is that there were plans to remake all of the previous JOLLY games (excluding Jollibee's) after finishing JOLLY 4, but for obvious reasons that didn't get very far.

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Lastly, I want to thank everyone who's worked on JOLLY 4, as there were so many nice and talented people there who gave it their all for this game. It's a massive shame that all of it has now gone to waste, but I encourage you to follow them and their games having seen what they've made for this project. (Some examples being Malrat, BlueGirl, and Daztrax. But there are many more names to include too. You know who you are.)

Weshek, as difficult as it is for me to forgive you after everything you've done, I still want to thank you for letting me join the J4 team and giving me a very useful experience to learn from. I hope you use this as a learning opportunity as well, and I wish you the best wherever you go moving forward.

That's all from me. Thank you for reading.