Scattered Brains

Scattered Brains, Inc. is a company operated by Lorne Lanning, Bennie Terry III and Holly Newman, which was founded in 2022. So far, the company has not released any public works or promotional material.

The following description appears on the LinkedIn profile of Scattered Brains Co-Founder Leath Bing.

Scattered Brains is a new game studio led by a team of highly-decorated, 30+ year industry veterans contributing to titles such as Oddworld, QQ Dance, Call of Duty Online, Unreal Tournament, Mortal Kombat, and more.

In addition to their decades of individual experience selling tens of millions of copies of beloved games, our team members have worked with each other directly for decades.

The game will incorporate Hollywood-level production values from award-wining animators in its core legacy of compelling visual storytelling, while also incorporating the free-to-play mechanics pioneered by our team at Tencent and digital assets (both in- and out-of-game) for monetization and reinforcement of our core gameplay loop.

People

Lorne Lanning, Bennie Terry III and Holly Newman are all directors of Scattered Brains. The form submitted to Arizona Corporation Commission applying for authority to do business in Arizona, signed by Newman on 31 May 2022, lists Lanning as the Chief Executive Officer, and Newman and Terry as Secretaries. However, the Arizona Corporation Commission website lists Newman as both CEO and Secretary, and doesn't include Lanning as an officer.

Scattered Brains is authorized to issue 12 000 000 common shares, none of which were issued as of 31 May 2022. On LinkedIn, game designer and producer Steve Gray (previously of Square–Enix, EA, THQ and Tencent) and financial analyst Leath Bing are listed as Co-Founders of Scattered Brains, since July and September 2022 respectively.

Alanna Lausch, who previously worked for Oddworld Inhabitants on their social media campaign for the 2022 Webby Awards, has been interning at Scattered Brains as an Associate Marketing Manager since June 2022. Anthony Palma, a startup advisor, has been advising Scattered Brains since September 2022. Palma works full-time on Gaming Partnerships and Investments at Mysten Labs, developer of the gaming blockchain Sui.

Trademarks

Although the exact business of Scattered Brains hasn't been revealed, the company has filed four trademarks with the United States Patent & Trademark Office, all on 7 July 2022.

97492765.	NFTalent
97492773.	Scattered Brains
97492779.	Planet of the Pests
97492781.	NFTalent Agency

The goods and services covered by each of these trademarks are mostly the same, and broadly concern the distribution of video games (including virtual, augmented and mixed reality games), both downloadable and non-downloadable, as well as associated multimedia (e.g. audio and video). Crucially, the authentication of users and devices would be via the use of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The trademarks also cover software for the storage and transaction of cryptocurrency using blockchain technology.

History

Registration

Scattered Brains, Inc. was incorporated on 17 February 2022 in the State of Delaware, with the file number 6625579; an amended certificate was restated on 28 February.

On 7 June, Scattered Brains applied for authority to conduct business in Arizona, which was approved on 9 June.

Publicity

User u/Rathalos11 first posted their discovery of Scattered Brains on the Oddworld subreddit <r/oddworld> on 23 November 2022, and later found a description of the company on Co-Founder Leath Bing's LinkedIn profile.

Shortly before this, on 3 October 2022, in response to questions from members, Dan Sheridan posted on the Oddworld Discord that Oddworld Inhabitants will not be using NFTs.