Evil Genius Games, publisher of the Everyday Heroes tabletop roleplaying game, and subject of two articles in 2024 here on EN World, is attempting to remove references to documented history which delves into the company’s actions by citing court documents and interviews with former employees.
In early 2024 several employees of Evil Genius Game resigned, citing ethical concerns with the company’s activities. I investigated the allegations, obtained court documents and internal correspondence, and interviewed a number of ex-employees, as well as CEO Dave Scott himself, culminating in a lengthy article which provided a deep dive into the issue. That article was followed by another in June 2024 covering EGG’s participation in a pitch competition at an event at Consensus 2024, a convention in Texas run by Coindesk, and its description of the Web3 technologies it proposed using.
How does a company go from over twenty core staff to just six in the space of a few weeks? In the summer of 2023, Evil Genius Games appeared to be riding high. They’d made about half a million dollars over two Kickstarter campaigns and had raised $1M from several rich investors in the form of…
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Reddit user calculusbear posted a link in 2024 to my article about EGG’s business practices. On January 14th of this year (2025), EGG’s CEO Dave Scott messaged calculusbear asking them to take down the link claiming that it (the Reddit link, not the article or, indeed, EGG’s own actions) was “destroying my company”. Calculusbear has, to date, not taken down that link.
Last year, I had shared an Enworld article regarding the activities of Evil Genius Games, makers of Everyday Heroes in this sub.
A week ago, I received a message on reddit from their CEO, Dave Scott, asking me to remove the post. He claimed it was hurting his company. This is quite the interesting situation I find myself in; a reddit post causing harm to a company. But it’s not like there has been any clarifying news since.
Either way, I would ask Mr Scott to share the discussion he wishes to have first, before asking me to remove the post.
This isn’t the first time that EGG has attempted to quell criticism. In 2024 the CEO threatened ex-employees with legal action should they speak openly about their experiences–at the time I was shown letters to multiple staff from EGG’s legal representatives threatening action in response to their post-resignation statements; and when I spoke to them while researching my article last year, they all expressed concerns about retribution.
In the interests of balance, I’ll note that Scott claims in his message that my article (which backs up every statement with court documents, internal company documents, email transcripts, and interview statements) ‘sighted many inaccurate facts’ [sic].
Hi Calculus Bear. My name is Dave Scott and I am the CEO of Evil Genius Games. About a year ago there was a post that highlighted an article by ENWorld that predicted the fall of my company. The article is one sided. It sighted many inaccurate facts that really hurt me personally and my company. Since then, the thread has been archived, but for some reason it still shows up on the front page of Google Search. A year later, this article is destroying my company. Is there any chance you would consider removing the archived thread? I’m happy to have a deeper discussion about what is going on with the thread and my company. Thank you.
Whether the Reddit link is ‘destroying the company’ is hard to say. Just three months ago, in November 2024, the venture capital firm Alumni Ventures, part of a syndicate which includes Blockchain Founders Fund and Hustle Fund, amongst others, talked about it’s proud investment in EGG. EGG’s most recent crowdfunder, The Armory, raised $47.5K (its original Everyday Heroes Kickstarter raised nearly $400K, while the followup Legendary Bundle raised $115K).
This week EGG launched its digital platform, ‘Sidekick‘. The advertising for the platform contains no references to technology suchs as NFTs and blockchains, for which the company has previously been criticised. It’s not clear whether EGG has reversed its position on the ethics of Web3 tech or whether it’s still planning on using it.
The original article had largely fallen off the radar, but has seen increased traffic recently due to the company’s attempts to hide it (an effect known popularly as the Streisand Effect).
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