Collage Mode debuts in the midst of a public conflict between ZA/UM and a few of the studio’s former workers, as noted by Eurogamer. The dispute began in 2022, when Robert Kurvitz, Helen Hindpere, and Aleksander Rostov, three members of the Disco Elysium crew, claimed they had been fired as a result of the studio’s acquisition by two Estonian businessmen in 2021. Kurvitz and Rostov continued by claiming that the new owners of ZA/UM had taken over the business fraudulently. In a press release on Tuesday, ZA/UM announced that the legal action Kurvitz and Rostov had taken against it had been settled and the lawsuit had been dismissed. Later on, the two told Eurogamer that the announcement was “wrong and misleading in several respects” and that they would keep fighting their former company in court using other legal means.
