Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 studio Sandfall Interactive has responded publicly to a post made by the creator of comic L'Académie Clair-Obscur last Friday, alleging Sandfall's lawyers contacted him to demand he stop selling the book (via Polygon). Comic creator Olivier Gay—who says he pitched the book to publisher Drakoo in 2019, and has a contract with the title dated several months before Clair Obscur: Expedition 33's release—wrote on X that the letter implied his book was "riding on the game's undeniable success" (via X's translation feature). Gay's thread went on to say that he has "boundless admiration for Sandfall Interactive's success story", but conceded he'd be changing the name, not having "the energy nor the money to engage in a legal battle, especially against French studios that I greatly appreciate".
