Chris Olsen (left) and Dino Patti of Jumpship at Gamelab.
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Why the developer of Inside and Limbo formed a new indie game studio

Dino Patti cofounded game studio Playdead in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2006. The indie team created an award-winning title, Limbo, in 2010. It won a number of awards, and then Playdead went dark for six years. They launched Inside in June 2016 and won even more acclaim.

Now Patti has left Playdead to start a new studio, Jumpship, in England with animator Chris Olsen. Olsen had been working on an interesting new concept, a sci-fi game called Somerville.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.