IKEA warns that it will appeal to the developer of ``horror game set in a large blue and yellow furniture store'' unless the appearance is corrected



Ziggy , an indie game developer, is developing a horror game ' The Store is Closed ' set in a large furniture store reminiscent of IKEA. IKEA is preparing to take legal action against Ziggy via the law firm Fross Zelnick as a copyright infringement, as the furniture store that is the stage of this game is too similar to IKEA. It was revealed that he contacted

IKEA Asks Horror Game To Change So Folks Stop IKEA Comparisons
https://kotaku.com/ikea-furniture-horror-game-store-is-closed-kickstarter-1849715848

Ikea sends lawyers after indie dev for making a horror game about a furniture store | Eurogamer.net
https://www.eurogamer.net/ikea-send-lawyers-after-this-indie-dev-for-making-a-horror-game-about-a-furniture-store-1

' The Store is Closed', developed by Ziggy, is a horror game set in a large furniture store after it closes. ” is expressed.

'The Store is Closed' is seeking investment at Kickstarter, a cloud funding site, for its release, and at the time of writing the article, 1304 people have invested more than 8.8 million yen.

You can see what kind of game 'The Store is Closed' will be in one shot by watching the video embedded in the tweet below.




Ziggy did not use any IKEA products or names in 'The Store is Closed,' but when the game was announced,multiple media outlets compared IKEA to the furniture store the game is set in. . Therefore, IKEA is preparing legal action via Fross Zelnick, a law firm in New York, saying that 'The Store is Closed' is infringing copyright. Mr. Ziggy seems to have received a notice from Fross Zelnick that he will sue him unless he changes the expression that appears in the game within 10 days.

The notice Ziggy received from Fross Zelnick said, ``Your game has a store with a huge blue and yellow sign that says Scandinavia and a blue box-like building worn by an IKEA employee. A yellow striped shirt that evokes the clothes that are worn, gray walkways on the floor, furniture that looks like IKEA furniture, and product signs that look like IKEA - all of which are set in IKEA. It reminds me of something,' and was instructed to fix these within 10 days.




When I played 'The Store is Closed' under development by game media Kotaku, the appearance of the furniture store, which is the stage of the game, is displayed on the menu screen of the game, but it seems that it is hardly displayed after that. In addition, 'STYR', which is the name of a fictitious large furniture store that appears in the game, means 'control' in Swedish.



The following is a `` yellow vertical striped shirt reminiscent of the clothes worn by IKEA employees '' that appears in the game.



Regarding ``furniture that looks like IKEA furniture,'' Ziggy said, ``I bought a general furniture asset pack to make this game,'' and the furniture in the store imitated IKEA furniture. I don't think so.



As for the 'gray walkway on the floor,' he said, 'I don't know what this means.'



Ziggy said, ``I was going to spend the last week of Kickstarter's funding deadline preparing updates for all the new alpha testers. There is.”

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