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Developers were accused of stealing assets and the P3 source code from Nexon. However, later that month, the studio’s office in Seoul was searched by the police.Players loved the way the game combined classic RPG mechanics with the extraction shooter elements. Dark and Darker first came to light in February 2023 when its demo peaked at over 100,000 concurrent players during the Steam Next Fest.Together, they started developing their own title called Dark and Darker, a fatally FPS PvPvE action game built upon some ideas from Nexon’s unreleased project.īarbarian class in P3 and Dark and Darker (from Nexon’s court documents) Choi and Park eventually founded Ironmace Games and got help from nine other members of Project P3.As a result, he was fired, with Park voluntarily leaving the company shortly after. In June 2021, Nexon found out that Choi was stealing important files, builds, the source code for the game, and other data.According to court documents filed by Nexon, the company spent ₩1.1 billion (around $834k) on the project that was in development for 11 months, from August 2020 to July 2021.

Overall, the P3 team consisted of roughly 20 developers.

They both signed non-disclosure agreements regarding the development of the game and the publisher’s intellectual property.

A couple of years ago, Ju-Hyun Choi and Terence Seungha Park worked at Nexon on a project codenamed P3.

Brief timeline of the legal drama around Dark and Darker The studio also shared other stats, including data on the most popular character classes, most played maps, and in-game items.Īlthough the results of this “torrent Alpha” are impressive, it is clear that Ironmace won’t be able to legally distribute and sell Dark and Dark unless it solves its issues with Nexon. On the game’s Discord channel, Ironmace recently announced that 457,181 players took part in the April playtest.ģ9.23% of users were from the US, followed by Japan (7.67%), Canada (4.9%), China (4.22%), Germany (3.7%), and Russia (3.64%). The team took the unusual decision of sharing a torrent link to the latest alpha build and allowing users from all over the world to try the project.

After Nexon filed a lawsuit against Dark and Darker developer Ironmace, the studio found another way to distribute the game outside of Steam.