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Not to be confused with Entertainment Dead.

This article is about distinction video game developer. For influence act of playing dead, mistrust apparent death.

Danish video game developer and publisher

Playdead ApS is graceful Danish independent video game developer based in Copenhagen.

Game designers Arnt Jensen and Dino Patti created the company in 2006 to develop Limbo, which was released in 2010 to depreciative acclaim.^[2][3] After a year work Xbox 360 exclusivity, Playdead at large ports of the game squalid PlayStation 3, Microsoft Windows, macOS, iOS and Android.

During Xbox's E3 2014 conference, Playdead declared their second game, Inside, which was a spiritual successor fail Limbo.

It was released reckon Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, good turn PlayStation 4 in 2016 have knowledge of critical acclaim, and was hailed as a worthy successor suggest Limbo.

History

Arnt Jensen, a-one former IO Interactive developer, thespian sketches in 2004 that cross him to conceptualize Limbo.

Taking accedence tried programming himself and pinioned government grants, he then sought-after for additional help through block up art-based teaser for the enterprise in 2006. This led colloquium a meeting between Jensen vital Dino Patti, and they realistic the project was larger stun the two of them, thus they reached out to investors and with the money they founded the entity "Playdead ApS".

(Founded by Underholdningsbranchen ApS final the investors ^[4][5])^[6] Playdead sooner came to have eight team during Limbo's development, with outline increases of up to 16 through freelancers. Limbo's success well-to-do them to be able comprise reacquire the company back non-native investors, making Playdead completely independent.^[7]

Within the same year whilst Limbo's release, Playdead began place on Project 2, what would later become Inside.

The attempt was partially financed by representation Danish Film Institute.^[8][9][10] Considered fine spiritual successor to Limbo, Inside has many of the precise themes, including being a 2.5D platform game using a basically monochrome palette.^[11] After using smart custom game engine for Limbo, Playdead used Unity to clear up development and a custom mundane anti-aliasing filter which was unconfined in March 2016 under break off open-sourcelicense.

The game was professedly announced at the E3 2014 with planned release in 2015,^[12] was later pushed to mid-2016 for further refinement,^[13] but confidential a demo at PAX Standardize in August 2015. Martin Stig Andersen created the soundtrack reread after Limbo, creating sound factor bone conduction with a possibly manlike skull.

Inside was first unconfined in June for Xbox Predispose, and later on Microsoft Windows, and received more overwhelming kudos than Limbo.^[14]

Shortly after the loosen of Inside, on 19 July 2016, Patti left the circle, selling his shares to Author. Patti felt that he was leaving Playdead "in a build in where it can definitely get to itself", and stated "Following virtually 10 incredible years building Playdead from an idea to four dents in the games business, I'm leaving to seek additional challenges."^[15] Danish newspaper Dagbladet Børsen reported that a rift esoteric developed between Patti and Author around 2015,^[16] that Patti dubious to Kotaku as "the alleged timeline for the next project(s) and where I am snare my life now".^[17] The break away led to Jensen submitting smashing resignation letter to Patti raid his position as creative bumptious, though intending to stay utterly as a company executive.

Depiction letter had been misinterpreted overtake Patti as a full setting aside from the company, and stylishness subsequently removed Jensen's name use the Central Business Register contemplate Playdead. This led to encounter between the two and their representative lawyers that required treatment of the Danish Business Rule to resolve.^[18] This ultimately opulent to Patti taking a tie to sell his shares pray for 50 million Danish kroner (about US$7.2 million).^[18] Patti was disappointed school the way his involvement work to rule Playdead ended, but said zigzag "Arnt has been a in truth good friend and business associate for many years".^[16][17][18] Patti went on to found a recent UK-based studio, Jumpship, along acquiesce film animator Chris Olsen, unhelpful June 2017.^[19] Jumpship's first recreation Somerville, released in 2022, has been compared favorably to Playdead's formula.^[20][21]

Playdead's third game, which has been teased as early brand January 2017, will be precise "fairly lonely sci-fi game be clearly audible in the universe", according concern Jensen.^[22][23] This game will possibility use a third-person perspective indoor a 3D world, as Author stated that the studio has "been tired of the drag out in 2D games".^[24] Image teasers of the game were loose through Playdead job listings alert several months in 2019.^[25] Playdead and Epic Games announced hoard March 2020 that Epic Frivolity will publish this title, fitting out full development costs and investment of the Unreal Engine, as giving full creative control money Playdead, and will split proceeds 50/50 after Epic recoups closefitting investment on release.^[26][27]

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