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IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]

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Re: IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]

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Post by ck2 »

boredpudding wrote: post #50
Hackbraten wrote: post #46

IKEA bullied the developer of the indie game The Store is Closed into gutting the whole game. [0] It’s a shame how people can even acknowledge, let alone applaud IKEA’s “funny” gaming-related ad after their successful meddling with SCP folklore, not to speak of the chilling effect their actions may have had on indie gaming. [0]: https://www.escapistmagazine.com/the-store-is-closed-indie-s...

Yeah sorry man, that's clearly IKEA so it's obvious they had to act on it. Can't sell IKEA-branded games without their permission. Even on their Steam trailer, the first second is clearly IKEA. Just changing the name is not enough. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1593010/The_Store_is_Clos... Sometimes it's not that deep. Sometimes the cute little indie dev just made a mistake. The game is also not out yet, even th…

I've never been in an IKEA but it looks like Backrooms to me

did Backrooms also infringe on IKEA or maybe every furniture store has the same concept

Re: IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]

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Post by dhosek »

boredpudding wrote: post #50
Hackbraten wrote: post #46

IKEA bullied the developer of the indie game The Store is Closed into gutting the whole game. [0] It’s a shame how people can even acknowledge, let alone applaud IKEA’s “funny” gaming-related ad after their successful meddling with SCP folklore, not to speak of the chilling effect their actions may have had on indie gaming. [0]: https://www.escapistmagazine.com/the-store-is-closed-indie-s...

Yeah sorry man, that's clearly IKEA so it's obvious they had to act on it. Can't sell IKEA-branded games without their permission. Even on their Steam trailer, the first second is clearly IKEA. Just changing the name is not enough. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1593010/The_Store_is_Clos... Sometimes it's not that deep. Sometimes the cute little indie dev just made a mistake. The game is also not out yet, even th…

Kind of reminds me of a college classmate back in the 80s made a Hypercard game which he had called Escape from Harvey Mudd but which the college asked (maybe demanded?) that it be renamed as it started to get distribution so the more commonly seen version was called Escape from Grid Tech. I would guess that there might have been some reputational concerns as that classmate was one of the people who dropped out of Mudd during my time there (the late 80s cohorts had a lot of people, myself included, who had wavered between humanities and sciences and after exposure to life in the sciences decided to opt for the humanities instead—most of us ended up doing programming for a living having no marketable skills post-college. The one person from my freshman year suite who actually finished his degree at Mudd went on to become a music professor).

Re: IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]

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Post by [deleted] »

Hackbraten wrote: post #46

IKEA bullied the developer of the indie game The Store is Closed into gutting the whole game. [0] It’s a shame how people can even acknowledge, let alone applaud IKEA’s “funny” gaming-related ad after their successful meddling with SCP folklore, not to speak of the chilling effect their actions may have had on indie gaming. [0]: https://www.escapistmagazine.com/the-store-is-closed-indie-s...

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Re: IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]

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Post by mhd »

nkrisc wrote: post #33

The concept reminds of Chex Quest, a Doom total conversion based on Chex, the cereal brand. I loved playing it when I was 8 or so. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chex_Quest

I remember playing a somewhat decent adventure based on the BiFi salami snacks in the 90s.

Re: IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]

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Post by thih9 »

colechristensen wrote: post #103
chao- wrote: post #29

I normally dislike shameless brand crossovers, but this faux low-budget, yet-another-janky-mod vibe... they committed to the bit. I can't hate it.

My dislike for brand crossovers is inversely correlated with how reasonable a match the brands are. Ikea vs. The Sims? Lame, obvious Ikea vs. Skyrim? 10/10 no notes

You might consider subtracting half a point for a matching setting - both IKEA and Skyrim are noticeably Nordic.

Re: IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]

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Post by tomjakubowski »

hagbard_c wrote: post #120
dyzone wrote: post #112

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is IKEA the only furniture store in the world? I do not see any IKEA branding in the trailer.

IKEA is the only furniture store with a four-letter name in that same typeface in yellow on a blue building even though it is called 'STYR' here. It is the only furniture store using that uniform, also blue-yellow, for its personnel. The game maker clearly used IKEA as an inspiration but forgot that 'inspiration' is not the same as 'duplication'. They could have made the building red, used a serif typeface and a 7-ch…

The factory builder game Captain of Industry has a building you can add on to a settlement which sells household goods and furniture to the population. It's a blue building with yellow trim and a big sign on the front that says IDEA. I wonder if this is just small potatoes enough of a parody that IKEA wouldn't care about it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/captain_of_industry/comments/1vtbz8...

Re: IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]

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Post by colechristensen »

thih9 wrote: post #136
colechristensen wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My dislike for brand crossovers is inversely correlated with how reasonable a match the brands are. Ikea vs. The Sims? Lame, obvious Ikea vs. Skyrim? 10/10 no notes

You might consider subtracting half a point for a matching setting - both IKEA and Skyrim are noticeably Nordic.

Hm. That's a situational rule. In this case it makes it funnier. A person could write a whole encyclopedia of lore tracing Kallax back to its mythical roots.

Re: IKEA made a mod for Skyrim [video]

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Post by hagbard_c »

tomjakubowski wrote: post #137
hagbard_c wrote: post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IKEA is the only furniture store with a four-letter name in that same typeface in yellow on a blue building even though it is called 'STYR' here. It is the only furniture store using that uniform, also blue-yellow, for its personnel. The game maker clearly used IKEA as an inspiration but forgot that 'inspiration' is not the same as 'duplication'. They could have made the building red, used a serif typeface and a 7-ch…

The factory builder game Captain of Industry has a building you can add on to a settlement which sells household goods and furniture to the population. It's a blue building with yellow trim and a big sign on the front that says IDEA. I wonder if this is just small potatoes enough of a parody that IKEA wouldn't care about it. https://old.reddit.com/r/captain_of_industry/comments/1vtbz8...

They may just not have noticed it. Are there other brands shown in that way in the same game? That would probably also make it a less of an issue.
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