The founders of Playdead are having a legal war over who made more of Limbo

Many moons ago, Danish developers Playdead released bleak platformer Limbo and proved beyond tenable uncertainty that Gamez R Art, portion besides giving a clump of witless scriveners monolithic arachnophobia. Today, we larn that 1 of the studio's co-founders, Arnt Jensen, is suing the other, Dino Patti, amid competing claims astir the standard of his publication to Limbo. Because of people each large things indispensable extremity successful calamity.

Our root of this communicative is Patti himself, who near Playdead successful 2017 aft the merchandise of the wonderfully awful/awfully fantastic Inside, and is presently brag of Somerville developer Jumpship. He and Jensen person famously not been connected large presumption for years, but things came to a boil successful precocious 2024, erstwhile Patti published an relationship of Limbo's improvement connected LinkedIn.

Back successful March this year, Jensen argued that the LinkedIn station exaggerates Patti's publication to Limbo, insisting that "by providing recipients with halfway insights to the process of processing Limbo, you are falsely giving the content that you played a important role, including a originative role, successful the improvement of the game." He besides claimed that the station includes an "unauthorised" photo.

For this alleged infringement, Playdead asked for 500,000 Danish kroner oregon $72,630 arsenic "suitable compensation and reimbursement." Now, Patti has revealed that Playdead's lawyers are taking him to tribunal successful a podcast interrogation this week with Danish tract Arkaden (via VGC).

For his part, Patti contends that Jensen is trying to delete him from the game's root story. "Arnt, delight halt the bullying. I volition not halt being who I am," helium declared backmost successful March. "I volition ne'er erase my ain history. You can't rewrite the past conscionable due to the fact that of a atrocious breakup." In the Arkaden podcast, Patti is upbeat astir the situation, commenting that it's an accidental to acceptable the grounds straight, but with each owed respect to the guy, that's the benignant of happening you accidental erstwhile you're being sued.

None of this interferes with my eagerness to perceive astir Playdead's adjacent game, "a 3rd idiosyncratic subject fabrication escapade acceptable successful a distant country of the universe", which was revealed successful 2017. At the hazard of sounding similar I'm picking my favourite dad, I've yet to play Somerville, which Malindy Hetfield described arsenic an "interesting, if not peculiarly deep" rotation connected the Playdead schoolhouse of apocalyptic minimalism.

I volition inquire Playdead and Jumpship for comment.