Back to collectionA funding wait becomes a clear spending boundary
Background: The funding has not arrived, and the studio needs to keep making the game without piling up commitments while its financial limits remain unclear. Today: The internal rule was reiterated: freeze all new spending until the funds arrive. Impact and next: The rule turned the funding wait into a clear daily boundary and left less room for people to make separate assumptions because money seemed close.
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Background: The funding has not arrived, and the studio needs to keep making the game without piling up commitments while its financial limits remain unclear. The team needs to turn “wait for the money” into a spending rule everyone can follow.
Today: The internal rule was reiterated: freeze all new spending until the funds arrive. The point was not to cut a particular piece of production, but to draw a clear boundary around authority first: existing work could continue, while no new expense should be promised early on the strength of optimism.
Impact and next: The rule turned the funding wait into a clear daily boundary and left less room for people to make separate assumptions because money seemed close. The project could continue under existing arrangements, but new spending had to wait until the funds arrived; when funding would be completed remained unresolved.