ArtStation (outdated, before the game changed names) description:
ZA/UM is a cultural movement uniting artists, writers, entrepreneurs and socialists, established 2009. Named after the Russian futurists' language of gods and birds it does popular and avant-garde. Creates and markets. In 2014 ZA/UM started Nihilist.fm - an online publishing platform. In print media, ZA/UM has published four national bestsellers.
As a game studio ZA/UM has been active for almost 3 years. What started out as a small idea between friends is now a studio 20 strong and ever growing in scale. We are currently developing an isometric role playing game called No Truce With The Furies, which is also our first behemoth of a game.
Wikipedia page google-translated from Estonian into English:
[i]ZA / UM is an Estonian cultural group that was involved in the exchange of the editor-in-chief of the cultural newspaper Sirp in 2013 and later stood out mainly on the cultural and opinion portals ZA / UM and Nihilist. [1]
Members include writer Kaur Kender, writer and musician Robert Kurvitz, literary and artist Martin Luiga, artist Aleksander Rostov, writer Siim Nurklik, writer and citizen activist Made Luiga, photographer Ruudu Ulas, critic Helen Hindpere, journalist Märt Belkin and fashion photographer Lilian Marie Merila. [2]
ZA / UM has published books including Robert Kurvitz's novel "The Holy and Spooky Smell" (2013), Kaur Kender and Taavi Eelmaa's playbook "Without the Loss. The Case of the Lost Friend" (2014), Mudlumi (Made Luiga), Teemu Mäki, Olavi Ruitlas and Kender's works (2014-16). [Ref?] ZA / UM members have also been associated with the Margus Linnamäe-funded ZA / UM-based computer game project Disco Elysium (also "No Truce With the Furies", partly based on Kurvitz's novel [3] [ 4] [5].
The group's name is associated with the term "zaum", used in Russian symbolic poetry in the early 20th century, to denote "out of mind" experiments with sound symbolism and linguistic nature in an attempt to overcome rationality. The term was coined in 1913 by the Russian poet Alexei Kruchonakh. [6][/i]
