The Internet Development Institute (IRI) told its version about a grant for Watt Studio to develop the game “Trains. They said they offered the studio a breakdown of the project into 5 phases. Citations are given in the author’s edition.

The condition for the implementation of the project is the co-financing of the project by the contractor, all participants of the competition agree to this by going to the face-to-face defense of the projects and signing the framework agreement. Apparently, Watt Games LLC could not find the necessary funding and decided to report it on the public page of the project.
According to the institute, it was proposed to split the project and payment into 5 parts, which would be issued as the product was ready.
Today IRI was notified that the contractor is not ready to contract. The decision to sign a contract to produce a game, series or other content product is made independently by each winner of the IRI competition, based on a consideration of opportunity, obligation and risk.
At the same time, the studio told another version.
All screenshots are from TRAINS: Through electric storms. can be viewed here.
The insider didn’t want to leak the latest distribution game in Epic Games – he just stated that it was “part of a good franchise”.
Source: VG Times