Disco Elysium’s Collage Mode lets you write new dialogue

Disco Elysium, among the finest releases of 2019 and 2021, lastly has a devoted photograph mode, nevertheless it’s not just like the one you discover in most video games. Introduced this week, the sport’s new Collage Mode grants gamers full entry to all of the characters, environments and props discovered inside the RPG. As you may think, you should utilize that energy to pose your favourite NPCs in “a spread of foolish and smart poses.” You’re then free so as to add filters and alter the time of day to change the temper of your seize.

However most fascinating of all, Collage Mode offers you the liberty to put in writing your individual dialogue for Disco Elysium, and make it appear like it got here immediately from the sport. “Fabricate utterly new dramas from unforgivable punch-ups to fruity but forbidden kisses,” developer ZA/UM Studio suggests. “Corroborate your fan fiction with screenshots immediately from the sport.” Disco Elysium fan fiction won’t ever be the identical.

As Eurogamer notes, Collage Mode arrives amid an ongoing public dispute between ZA/UM and a handful of the studio’s former workers. The disagreement dates again to 2022 when three members of the Disco Elysium workforce – Robert Kurvitz, Helen Hindpere and Aleksander Rostov – mentioned they have been fired from their jobs following the studio’s takeover by a pair of Estonian businessmen in 2021. Kurvitz and Rostov went on to accuse ZA/UM’s new house owners of fraudulently acquiring management of the corporate. On Tuesday, ZA/UM revealed a press launch saying the authorized proceedings Kurvitz and Rostov had introduced in opposition to it had been resolved after a court docket dropped the case. The 2 later informed Eurogamer the announcement was “flawed and deceptive in a number of respects,” and that they might proceed pursuing different authorized choices in opposition to their former employer.