From the entry on Know Your Meme[1]:

> The entire game was planned to be be completed in less than a year, however only one person on the team had previous game development experience as a professional developer. He was banned from the project for criticizing it.

This made me laugh more than it should have.

[1] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/zybourne-clock

It was an idea for a community-designed video game on the Something Awful forums. This is a much better summary: https://shii.bibanon.org/shii.org/knows/Zybourne_Clock.html

References to Zybourne Clock made it into some pretty high-profile places thanks to former goons becoming adults and working their way into various industries: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Johnny

Possibly https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3080232/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_...