Playdead
Company type | Private |
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Industry | Video games |
Founded | 2006 |
Founders |
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Headquarters | , Denmark |
Key people | Arnt Jensen |
Products | |
Number of employees | 70+[1] (2023) |
Website | playdead.com |
Playdead ApS is a Danish
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History
Arnt Jensen, a former IO Interactive developer, drew sketches in 2004 that led him to conceptualize Limbo. Having tried programming himself and secured government grants, he then sought for additional help through an art-based teaser for the game in 2006. This led to a meeting between Jensen and Dino Patti, and they realized the project was larger than the two of them, so they reached out to investors and with the money they founded the entity "Playdead ApS". (Founded by Underholdningsbranchen ApS and the investors [4][5])[6] Playdead eventually came to have eight employees during Limbo's development, with temporary increases of up to 16 through freelancers. Limbo's success led them to be able to reacquire the company back from investors, making Playdead completely independent.[7]
Within the same year as Limbo's release, Playdead began working on Project 2, what would later become
Shortly after the release of Inside, on 19 July 2016, Patti left the company, selling his shares to Jensen. Patti felt that he was leaving Playdead "in a state where it can definitely manage itself", and stated "Following almost 10 incredible years building Playdead from an idea to two dents in the games industry, I'm leaving to seek new challenges."
Playdead's third game, which has been teased as early as January 2017, will be a "fairly lonely sci-fi game somewhere in the universe", according to Jensen.[22][23] This game will likely use a third-person perspective within a 3D world, as Jensen stated that the studio has "been tired of the limitations in 2D games".[24] Image teasers of the game were released through Playdead job listings over several months in 2019.[25] Playdead and Epic Games announced in March 2020 that Epic Games will publish this title, providing full development costs and support of the Unreal Engine, while giving full creative control to Playdead, and will split profits 50/50 after Epic recoups its investment on release.[26][27]
Games developed
Year | Title | Platform(s) | ||||||||||
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Android | iOS | Linux | macOS | PS3 | PS4 | Vita | Win | NS | X360 | XOne | ||
2010 | Limbo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
2016 | Inside | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
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- ^ a b de Vries, Af Steffen (16 January 2017). "Gylden spilduo splitter efter magtkamp - stifter får 50 mio for at gå". Dagbladet Børsen (in Danish). Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ a b D'Anastasio, Cecilia (18 January 2017). "Co-Founder Of Inside Creators Gets $7 Million After Business Breakup". Kotaku. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
- ^ GamesIndustry.biz. Retrieved 19 January 2017.
- Gamasutra. Retrieved 27 June 2017.
- ^ Clayton, Natalie (13 June 2021). "Somerville is Inside set during an alien apocalypse, and it's coming next year". PC Gamer. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ Hester, Blake (13 June 2021). "Somerville, The New Game From Former Playdead CEO, Gets New Trailer". Game Informer. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
- ^ Watts, Rachel (1 October 2018). "Inside developer Playdead's next game will be sci-fi". PCGamesN. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
- ^ Dayus, Oscar (20 January 2017). "Limbo, Inside Dev Teases Next Game". GameSpot. Retrieved 20 January 2017.
- ^ Scott-Jones, Richard (2 November 2018). "The Limbo and Inside studio is going 3D, third-person, and sci-fi for its next game". PCGamesN. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
- ^ O'Conner, James (7 July 2019). "Some new art from Playdead's next game has quietly been released inside job listings". VG247. Retrieved 7 July 2019.
- ^ Robinson, Andy (26 March 2020). "Epic will publish games from Remedy, Playdead and Gen Design". Video Games Chronicle. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
- ^ Ivan, Tom (21 January 2021). "Limbo and Inside studio's new game is a 3rd person open-world sci-fi adventure". Video Games Chronicle. Retrieved 21 January 2021.
External links
- Media related to Playdead at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website