EMERGENCY: Synapse Chronicles STEAM PAGE TAKEN DOWN by Convicted CRIMINAL JOZEF VICTOR NATHAN GHERMAN.
Jozef Gherman, a CFTC-sanctioned CRYPTO scammer, and AI scammer, LIED about a Florida court order from a separate case to FALSELY DMCA STRIKE the STEAM PAGE and PATREON PAGE of an INDIE GAME he does NOT own.
Gherman does NOT own Synapse Chronicles. He has no copyright, no assignment, no paperwork, NOTHING. We are fighting him for another unrelated INDIE GAME in court right now. This is DMCA lawfare against INDIE developers.
Our legal team is working with Steam and Patreon right now to restore the game.
The DMCA process should NOT be used as a bad-faith harassment tool to suppress an independently developed game.
The FALSE DMCA notice claims that SYNAPSE CHRONICLES is using “stolen assets and code” from SSRWives, an unrelated different indie game. Gherman/XYZ AI claims to be the owner of SSRWives, (which is under dispute in court right now.)
Synapse Chronicles is not derived from SSRWives. It does not share source code, assets, characters, narrative elements, gameplay systems, or gameplay genre with SSRWives.
NOWHERE IN ANY COURT DOCUMENT OR ORDER DOES IT CLAIM THAT SYNAPSE CHRONICLES IS USING STOLEN CODE OR ASSETS FROM SSRWIVES.
Synapse Chronicles is a third-person action/adventure game. SSRWives is a fixed-camera, tank controls, survival horror game. Synapse Chronicles is a hi-fidelity rendering game, SSRWives is an intentionally low-fidelity PSX-style rendering game.
Synapse Chronicles is fully owned by CorpusWorks LLC, my new indie game company. All IP and Assets are assigned to the new company, and fully certified as such. We have a Copyright pending with the USCO.
GHERMAN IS LYING TO STEAM.
Background Information:
Gherman defrauded his co-founder, our co-developer, Simon Dickerman out of his 50% ownership in their company XYZ AI Inc. Simon is the reason I signed on to work with XYZ AI Inc, and is himself an impassioned talented Developer who is writing the rendering features for Synapse Chronicles.
When SSRWives was transferred to XYZ AI, it was represented to me and everyone that Simon and Gherman are 50/50 cofounders. Simon wrote all the code for the core company products and was involved in every administrative decision.
Gherman and Simon’s 50/50 ownership was always acted upon, and it was put to writing in October of 2025 via what Gherman called the “Founder Split Agreement”.
Gherman clearly laid out Simon’s ownership in the company, payment, and right to SSRWives IP over message attached below. Simon executed this formal agreement by sharing access to all digital infrastructure for XYZ with Gherman after Gherman sent the agreement to his lawyer to be formalized.
Days later, Gherman used that new account access to lock Simon and the rest of us out of everything, and sent a "Separation" notice demanding Simon waive his ownership in the company and the INDIE game and the founder split agreement in exchange for $250,000.
Simon refused, and the lawsuit between us and Gherman began.
Since the founder lockout and financial theft in October, Gherman has been on a pathetic rampage against Simon and I, and our friends and co-devs.
The evidence is clear as day that Gherman and Simon are co-founders of their company XYZ AI, worth millions. Gherman himself claimed that the IP to SSRWives is in fact Simon’s, who was in the process of transferring it to me before the Founder Lockout in October.
Gherman’s history of criminal activity is well documented. CFTC sanctioned him for fraud involving dozens of Crypto currency investors in 2021.
Gherman was Nick Fuentes’ right-hand man and chief of staff at the time, often called “Assistant Groyper”.
Gherman led many crypto schemes after his CFTC order that banned him from Crypto, including MINTMONEYNFT, one of the first NFT projects to be named by the Texas State Securities Board in a ruling against NFT fraud.
cftc.gov/PressRoom/Pres
Us and our lawyers have been actively working with the CFTC and other law enforcement agencies to bring justice against Gherman’s fraud.
Gherman will not be able to get away with FRAUD against INDEPENDENT developers, business partners, or GAMERS.
Synapse Chronicles will be restored to STEAM and PATREON soon, and will be RELEASED by the end of 2026. This will not slow down our development, and we will not let this CRIMINAL stand in the way of GAMERS who want to play our new game.
More gameplay features and updates will be coming soon, and a full vertical slice DEMO will release on STEAM this Summer.
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