Earlier today someone posted the following at GDN:

To whom it may concern,

I’m writing to you in regards to a company you’re affiliated with – Faramix Enterprise (http://www.faramix.com) .I’ll be blunt - the company is running a scam.I am, or rather was, one of the artists involved in the creation of their CellZenith game, and I have not been compensated for my work for that said project.Michael Dehen, the co-owner of Faramix Enterprise, has admitted to me via an online chat that he blocked all contact with everyone involved in the project, and that he wasn’t planning on paying anyone involved.Immediately after, he blocked me as well, and further emails I sent regarding payment have yet to be answered. The work I did for the game, most notably the cover art for ’CellZenith’, some avatars, and various promotional pieces are still up on their official website as well, and in the game itself.I was to be paid in November of last year.  It’s now March.

I will pursue legal action against Faramix Enterprise, and I urge you to conduct some investigation in regards to the said company.This company is running a scam and I will do whatever I can to inform everyone involved in what they have done.Myself and many others have put a lot of effort into this project, and it’s disgusting to see a company profiting off of our hard work while failing to pay us.

Thank you for your time.

Being good journalists we felt it was necessary for us to contact Faramix and see what the deal was. I sent an email to Michael Dehen formerly of Faramix who responded quickly to the accusation saying:

CellZenith was released 6 months ago and everyone was paid. Whoever is making the anonymous posts today has no justification for the slander and I find it uncalled for. We’ve been receiving emails and following up with website moderators to stop this.

The accuser has since stepped forward and identified himself as George Patsouras, one of the concept artists for ‘Faramix Enterprises.’ He states that he did concept work for End as well as Cellzenith and while he was paid for his End work he was not paid the sum of $800 US for his Cellzenith work, a sum that was to be paid in November of 2008. He states that others have not been paid for the Cellzenith work but that was unconfirmed at press time. George states that he spoke with Nate F, co-founder of Faramix (this is unconfirmed at present, but legal action has been threatened by Michael Dehen if GDN did not remove the information), and that he stated that Michael Dehen has not paid anyone for the Cellzenith project, nor has he paid Jim Welsh (music) for End (again, unconfirmed by GDN).

According to forum postings at J2 games, they had run advertisements for Cellzenith and Faramix and were also never paid. It seems that Michael Dehen ran Faramix without financial backing, had the creative talent work to produce a game and then never paid them. As none of us were present at the event we cannot make an accurate determination about what really happened.

The only body that will ever be able to make such a determination will be a court of law. If the accusations are valid then it would behoove all interested parties to come to some arrangement or else take it to said court of law. Internet and web-based ’he said, she said’ will only damage the reputations of everyone involved.

GDN ,as a news agency, has reported our findings on the topic and received word back from both sides. We consider our part in the matter concluded. We have reported on it fairly and evenly and have presented the information it what we hope is an unbiased manner simply presenting the facts.

If any legal proceedings take place GDN will be there to follow them but until that time we will leave the matter up to the principals involved ,of which we are not one.

The GDN Administration.

Wade D. Hinkle - CEO

Christophor Rick - Editor-in-Chief