Phil Fish

Better known as Phil Fish, Jacques Paul Phillipe Poisson is the man who created the majority of FEZ by himself, for four years, with barely enough money to eat. (for more on that watch Indie Game The Movie).
Anyways, Phil Fish (pictured below) created FEZ more or less by himself, which skyrocketed to great critical acclaim when it was released on XBLA and later Steam. Everything was going well and FEZ 2 was on the way, so what happened to him?

Well, Phil had made some controversial (but well founded) comments about Japanese Games, and the way Microsoft nickel and dimes Indie developers, even forcing them to pay reportedly "tens of thousands of dollars" just to patch their games. When asked about the state of Indie games on the controversial Xbox One, he refused to comment. Gaming "journalist" (we use the term loosely) Marcus Beer, from the AnnoyedGamer series on GameTrailers' Youtube channel, started hurling insults at him and Jonathan Blow (creator of Braid). Fish responded on Twitter, demanding an on-camera apology. This elicited more insults and other horrible things from Beer, leading Fish to respond with a rather inappropriate quote from Futurama, (which seems relatively tame compared to Beer's comments). Beer then went on to insult and threaten the reputation of Fish, who responded with "im done. FEZ II is canceled. goodbye." and then locked out his Twitter from the public. shortly after he posted on his company Polytron's website, "FEZ II is cancelled. i am done. i take the money and i run. this is as much as i can stomach. this isn't the result of any one thing, but the end of a long, bloody campaign. you win.". Polytron later tweeted confimation of the cancellation of FEZ 2, saying the were sorry for disappointing their fans. Phil Fish was trending in the top ten worldwide topics on twitter at that point. Later on, former Gears of War developer Cliff Bleszinski posted an open letter to Fish on Tumblr highlighting some of his own struggles with the industry and the way he'd been treated online, as well as asking him to return to the industry, and that Fish returning may be the jump-start he would need to return to the industry. At the end of the day, be it temporarily or permanently, the industry has lost a great visionary and pioneer. Who knows? Maybe he's taking a break like Steve Jobs did, and like the late tech magnate, will come back to create another revolution? Maybe he's really going to live in the mountains, offering his wisdom to those willing to seek it? Maybe he's upset because there was some really obvious secret meaning behind FEZ that no one understood? Maybe...