Mestiez - независимый разработчик компьютерных игр, известный прежде всего благодаря своему хиту People Playground. Компания специализируется на создании уникальных и часто экспериментальных игровых проектов. People Playground, в частности, выделяется своим симулятором физики песочницы, предоставляющим игрокам широкие возможности для взаимодействия с игровым миром и объектами. Информации об истории компании и ее местоположении крайне мало, что делает ее довольно загадочной.
Игры этой компании не найдены.
A poisoned mod reportedly hijacked players of a Steam game and fired slurs at their friends, which wasn’t the multiplayer anyone ordered. The game was People Playground, a ragdoll sandbox with hundreds of thousands of Steam reviews, and its Workshop had already weathered a self-replicating mod that wiped saves in February. Since then, malware-laced maps helped hackers seize Meccha Chameleon’s Discord, which left Workshop fans understandably twitchy, but round two turned out far nastier. People Playground shuts off mods after second Workshop malware attack Developer mestiez disabled the Workshop on September 22 and warned in a Steam post that this latest malicious mod was “especially bad” in a statement that opened with the following: “You might have noticed the Workshop has disappeared again.
"This one is especially bad": Steam game about mistreating ragdolls suffers second bout of mod-based malware this year People Playground players urged to run scans and avoid firing it up until further notice People Playground, a Steam sandbox game about torturing or otherwise messing with innocent ragdolls that work like crash test dummies, has had its Steam Workshop disabled over a "malicious mod" peddling malware. That's according to the game's developer Mestiez, who's urging anyone who played the game with mods on September 21st to run virus scans and has told everyone not to fire People Playground up until they've announced it's safe to do so. "You might have noticed the Workshop has disappeared again," the developer announced in a Steam post on September 22nd. This one is especially bad." They urged anyone who played People Playground with mods between 6PM and 8PM CEST on September 21st (that's 5PM and 7PM BST) to run an anti-virus scan.
People Playground from mestiez / Studio Minus recently had a major problem with malware pretending to be a mod in the Steam Workshop. I would say this is a reminder to be careful on what you're downloading - but these types of things are quite difficult for normal users to spot until it's too late. For many it was too late, since this wiped away various things. In PSA posted on Steam the developer said on February 1st they disabled the Steam Workshop, and a few days later released a security update to prevent the issue in future and as of February 6th they have enabled the Steam Workshop once again.