Ikea sends lawyers after indie dev for making a horror game about a furniture store - Eurogamer.net

"Now I've got to desperately revamp the full look of the crippled truthful I don't get sued."

Ikea has issued a cease and desist request to an indie fearfulness developer insisting they alteration their unreleased fearfulness crippled successful a bid to halt property and players alike from comparing it to its planetary furnishings chain.

The Store is Closed - which we told you astir a mates of weeks ago - is simply a haunting mash-up of Endnight Games' The Forest (which incidentally saw its sequel, Sons of the Forest, precocious delayed) and the humdrum of mundane life, and comes from indie developer Ziggy.

Whilst it doesn't usage immoderate of Ikea's products, names, oregon branding, Ikea believes the developer is infringing connected its copyright and has sent successful New York ineligible steadfast Fross Zelnick. Consequently, Ziggy - who's based successful the UK - has 10 days to marque the changes oregon look ineligible action.

"IKEA's lawyers contacted maine astir The Store is Closed," Ziggy tweeted, linking to an nonfiction connected Kotaku.

"I was going to walk the past week of my Kickstarter preparing an update for each the caller alpha testers. But present I've got to desperately revamp the full look of the crippled truthful I don't get sued."

When asked if he'd intentionally designed the store oregon its contents with Ikea "in mind", Ziggy said: "I bought generic furnishings plus packs to marque this game".

Ikea isn't convinced, though.

"Your crippled uses a bluish and yellowish motion with a Scandinavian sanction connected the store, a bluish box-like building, yellowish vertical stiped shirts identical to those worn by Ikea personnel, a grey way connected the floor, furnishings that looks similar Ikea furniture, and merchandise signage that looks similar Ikea signage," the ineligible paperwork insists. "All the foregoing instantly suggest that the crippled takes spot successful an Ikea store."

The lawyers besides instrumentality contented that adjacent erstwhile gaming property haven't made nonstop connections to Ikea, readers have: "Further, galore comments by readers of these stories marque an relation with Ikea stores," the missive says.

For those keen to larn much astir The Store is Closed, Ziggy has acceptable up a Kickstarter page, with it slated to merchandise for PC, Xbox Series X S and PS5. You tin wishlist it present connected Steam.