Disco Elysium: Lead Designer sues developer studio ZA/UM – News

GamersGlobal had already reported in early October that several team members Disco Elysium– Development studio ZA/UM had to leave involuntarily at the end of 2021. With the lead designer Robert Kurvitzthe art director Alexander Rostov and co-author Helen Hinpere were central people behind the development of the popular role-playing game affected. Now the conflict that already existed at the time is apparently being continued in court.

As Tech News Space reported, the still unknown video game publisher Telomer OÜ has filed a lawsuit against the former employer of the three developers in a court in Estonia. The first hearing is scheduled for November 28, 2022. Telomer OÜ is the newly founded company of Robert Kurvitz. Exact details regarding the purpose of the lawsuit are not known. According to an information website of the Ministry of Justice of Estonia, the intention in the first step is to “examine and evaluate documents”. kotaku opposite supported Martin Luiga, who had made the problems around ZA/UM public in the first place, the assumption of the website that the inventor of the world of Disco Elysium could use the legal process to regain control of the IP. Work on a follow-up title is said to have already begun before the split. Whether and who will develop and publish this remains open at the moment.