A still from the trailer for The Store is Closed
(Picture: Ziggy / YouTube)Traipsing around a busy furniture store on a Sunday afternoon is its own kind of hell. But one indie game developer trying to find the horror in flat-pack has found that the scariest threats aren’t always supernatural in nature – even on Halloween.
Jacob Shaw – the UK developer of the Kickstarter success story The Store is Closed – has been hit by a cease-and-desist letter from Ikea’s lawyers, and given 10 days to “change the game and remove all indicia associated with the famous Ikea stores”.
