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🚨BREAKING SMASH JT EXCLUSIVE🚨
I've discovered where the funding for 1348: Ex Voto actually came from… and it’s WAY worse than we thought.
After digging into Italian public financial records, I found out that the developer Sedleo SRL received €650,131 in government tax credits plus another €6,000 in grants from the Italian Ministry of Culture between 2021 and 2024.
That's $745,563.07 in USD for those counting.
Yes. This game was heavily funded w/taxpayer money to once again, push propaganda for the state.
The justification? The Italian government’s cultural commission officially classified the game as a “work of cultural value.”
Let that sink in.
Medieval Lesbians to push an LGBTQ+ Agenda once again.
So this project wasn’t just a private studio making a risky or stupid 'creative' bet... It was subsidized by the state, using a MASSIVE cultural grant program designed to promote media that supposedly represents Italian heritage and culture.
And the receipts exist.
The funding appears in Italy’s Registro Nazionale degli Aiuti di Stato, the national transparency database where every government subsidy to companies HAVE TO BE legally be recorded.
In total the public support tied to this project is €656,131 (around $750k USD). WTAF!?
That number is important because the program only covers about 25% of eligible development costs, meaning the total production budget for the game was likely several million euros.
Which means taxpayers helped bankroll the development of this game under the justification that it contributes to “culture.”
I want to thank an anonymous tipster who pointed me right direction and find the registry records. Everything referenced here is public information. My tipster is in Italy, and many of these Italian websites have some... hurtles to jump through for foreigners to view.
This is a pretty wild discovery because it shows that the project didn’t just 'appear' out of nowhere. It was approved, subsidized, and backed by a government cultural funding program.
And if this is where the funding trail leads… there most likely will be EVEN MORE behind the scenes.
