
"I was sick and tired of working hard, crunching a lot," Patti said "I really didn't want to be in that business because I didn't think you would be able to do what you really wanted because of the constraints of the economy, finding talent, bad management." Seeing the Limbo concept video invigorated Patti and he got in touch with Jensen to join the cause. While the change had been an exciting one, the realities of the games industry had slowly leeched Patti's enthusiasm.

He began his career as a programmer for an advertising company and then moved to the videogame world. "I think his vision was bigger than he really thought it was, he needed somebody to take action and try to bring in some money and people to help him." Patti had reached his own point of disillusion by 2006. "I had a friend see the video and say to me, 'Hey I know you just quit this other game job, this guy is seeking a programmer, maybe you should talk to him,'" Dino Patti, CEO and Co-founder of Playdead, told me. The trailer was meant as a hiring notice more than an official announcement but the video quickly went viral, sparking curiosity and excitement. It was okay, but it was just a long way away." By 2006 Jensen realized he would need help and decided to put aside the prototype and work on a cinematic trailer to entice a programmer to join him. I got a sprite up and running and I could do some small visual stuff. "I started some Visual Basic programming. "I thought I could do it myself," he said. It does not store any personal data.Jensen continued to work on his own for several years, sketching art and making basic tries at programming a prototype. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance".

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