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Nintendo Removes An eShop Game After Developer Reveals a Coded Easter Egg

A harsh lesson for indie developers as Nintendo will start checking games they accept into the eShop more closely after one tried to sneak a fast one by them. This week it was revealed by Eurogamer that the Nintendo Switch title A Dark Room was removed from distribution after the game's developer Amir Rajan revealed online that he had added a basic code editor into the game so people could make apps for the console. Here's a video demonstration of how you can access it if you have downloaded the game already. Once Nintendo learned of the unauthorized addition to the game, they immediately pulled it from the shop on April 26th.

According to the Eurogamer article, Rajan added the software to teach kids how to code on a more modern device, and that he acted alone without the knowledge of the publisher, Circle Entertainment. The program itself is just Ruby, which is pretty harmless in retrospect, but it does go against the licensing agreement companies make with Nintendo about loading programmable software into their games without the company's knowledge. Rajan is apparently taking a ton of flack the past few days from this, and we're assuming Circle is working on removing the program and sending out an update so they can get it back into the shop. But for those who have it already, it's a rare experience to have a coding program on the Nintendo Switch, so you might as well take advantage of it while you can before you're soon unable to access it.

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