Don't Nod

Background

Don't Nod is a Paris-based video game developer and publisher founded on May 1, 2008 by Hervé Bonin, Aleksi Briclot, Alain Damasio, Oskar Guilbert, and Jean-Maxime Moris as Dontnod Entertainment, the former word being a palindrome conceived by Damasio. They are best known for the Life Is Strange franchise, a narrative-adventure series published by Square Enix, although the studio has moved on from the series after the release of Life Is Strange 2 in 2018 to work on other projects like Tell Me Why and Twin Mirror.^[1] They would change their name to their current name on May 31, 2022.

Dontnod Entertainment

Logo (June 3, 2013-December 1, 2020)

Vampyr
The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit
Life is Strange 2
Tell Me Why
Twin Mirror

Vampyr
Twin Mirror

Visuals: The text ''DONTNOD'' in a bold, stylized futuristic font (with the second N flipped backwards and the second D also flipped upside-down, making it technically read ''DONTИOD''). ''ENTERTAINMENT'' is seen below spaced-out.

Variants:

In later years, the logo was slightly modified. The letters of ''DONTИOD'' are thinner, and ''ENTERTAINMENT'' is justified to the left below.
On Remember Me, the logo appears on a slightly grainy white vignette background.
On Vampyr, the logo is red and placed on a cracked concrete wall background with a sign on the top left section of the screen. After several red cracks form on the right towards the centre of the screen, the screen glitches and the text distorts with its content flowing away like spilled liquid. The screen shakes once during this process.
On The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, the logo is in a papercut style with "DONTNOD" coloured orange and red for the "D"'s stems and against a mostly coloured in gray background.
On Life is Strange 2, the logo, without "ENTERTAINMENT", is on a black nametag and against a scratched steel blue table.
On Tell Me Why, the logo is formed by round sparks on a misty gray background.
On Twin Mirror, the background is a slow zooming dark space with multiple broken white pieces floating. Flat shards and pieces form the logo with small portions of it breaking away.

Technique: Either a still, digital graphic or CGI.

Audio: The opening theme of the game, or silence.

Audio Variant: On Vampyr, A horror sting that starts with loud heartbeats, cracking, and flashes and slashing. A dramatic chorus plays in the middle of the sequence.

Availability: It appears on games they have developed from this period such as Remember Me, Vampyr, The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit, Life is Strange 2, Tell Me Why, and Twin Mirror.

Don't Nod

Logo (June 8, 2023-)

Harmony: The Fall of Reverie
Jusant
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

Harmony: The Fall of Reverie
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden

Visuals: A "D" shape with no hole is shown with a five sided top left piece split away from the shape and arranged so that the gap resembles an "N". Below the logo is "DON'TNOD" with the apostrophe in the shape of a small right triangle breaking away from the "T"'s left arm.

Variants: Depending on the game:

On Harmony: The Fall of Reverie, The logo, in dark blue, has a blue rippe effect centred on the right portion of the "D"-shape. The background, multicoloured and lacking in yellow and green colours, is changing colours in multiple sections of the screen and patterned with stylized thin network-like paths leading up to eye-like shapes scrolling diagonally.
Jusant: The logo is slightly cracked on a black background.
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden: Set on a steel blue-tinted cloud background with multiple floating dark symbols, a fireball-like object reveals the logo in black and with white slashes on it. Thin gold, uncentred rings in the background briefly appear behind the logo before it, and the symbols, disappear. This leaves the flames to fill the logo in white.

Technique: Either a still, digital graphic, flash animation, or CGI.

Audio: None.

Audio Variant: On Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden, a muffled blast plays, followed by high-pitched windy howling and grass-like ruffling.

Availability: The logo made its debut on Harmony: The Fall of Reverie and was later seen on Jusant and Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden.

External Links

DONTNOD Entertainment official website

References

↑ https://www.mobygames.com/company/dontnod-entertainment

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