A Dark Room dev apologizes for his Ruby interpreter Easter egg, says the reaction since has lead to the 'worst days of his life'

A few days ago, a unique Easter egg was discovered in A Dark Room on Switch. Developer Amir Rajan had included a Ruby interpreter and a code editor in the game, unbeknownst to Nintendo or Circle Entertainment, the game's publisher. This lead to the game being yanked, and now Rajan has spoken out on the matter.

"I deeply regret how this has blown up. A simple toy sandboxed environment has been framed as this massive exploit. And of course, it's the community that exploits these things that pushed it up to that level. I'm partly to blame with my sensationalized media posts. I acted alone and stupidly. It was a last second 'spark of inspiration' and I snuck it in assuming that plugging in a USB keyboard and pressing the "~" key wasn't part of the test plan. You can't even render an image with the damn thing. Having Circle deal with some of this cannon fire is not something I'd ever want. These past three days have been the worst days of my life."

Circle Entertainment also released a statement on the matter, as they're now the ones dealing with blowback from Nintendo.

"We're liaising with Nintendo to clarify on the next steps and will deal with the matter accordingly; they are regretful circumstances and we apologize for the issue. We have always worked hard to carefully follow Nintendo's processes and terms throughout our history of publishing on DSiWare, 3DS eSho, Wii U eShop and Nintendo Switch eShop, and we're sorry that there has evidently been an issue with this title."