Double Fine founder, Tim Schafer, has found himself in a bit of a pickle coming out from development troubles plaguing his first Kickstarter project, Broken Age (Double Fine Adventure Game).
Over 30-year industry veteran and Double Fine CEO Tim Schafer talks to IGN about Xbox and Game Pass, making weirder games, his inspirations, the Psychonauts 2 documentary, improving work culture, his future plans, and the deep importance of making games with and for other human beings.
Great interview and really down to earth guy. I’m interested in watching the documentary they made on the making of Psychonauts 2 .
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"MinnMax's Ben Hanson put together Tim Schafer from Double Fine and Hazelight Studios' Josef Fares to talk about Psychonauts 2, It Takes Two, and designing a great platformer in 2021."
This was a great interview. It reminded me a bit of the Devs Play interviews that Double Fine used to do: https://youtu.be/DxUfaZuGQK...
The ramblings of Josef Fares are endlessly entertaining. haha. He basically sounds crazy at the start of every tangent, but by the end of it, it's obvious that he's very talented and really knows what he's talking about.
He has a strong vision for his games - he didn't water down It Takes Two so it could also be played in solo with an AI and lose the need for collaboration, just like people don't want single-player games to be watered down. I would like if more studios took Hazelight's approach to game design: huge amounts of gameplay variation with very distinct levels.
I felt a bit bad for Tim because he talked about the struggle of cartoonish-looking games appealing to older gamers ... whereas Josef talked a lot about the high sales of It Takes Two (3.5m now). lol. Psychonauts 2 is fantastic and deserves higher sales and more recognition.
This was bound to happen. I'm surprise this didn't happen sooner like the day Schafer made the announcement about Broken Age. But LMAO the guy only donated $1 and wants a refund, dafuq?
That dude is a disgrace to gamers. I could have backed more with the change I find on the ground walking around the block, his "symbolic" refund was about the most greedy consumer BS I've ever seen.
An extreme analogy, but bare with me. If I say I'll make you a house for $1, and I say I can no longer finish, but leave you with some work done, and all of the materials, would you B!^(# about that single dollar? Hell no. He should be banned from every gaming website and platform with that attitude, she craps on our already filthy title as a gamer.
All I read was a bit about Tim Schafer deciding to spend someone's contribution on sparklers rather than on the game. So where would my £5 have gone? Schafer's blueberry muffins? They've raised an absolute fortune.
It sounds akin to the scene in Mary Poppins where the bank won't give someone their money back. Well they will but they're sitting so pretty on everyone else's that they don't give a damn.
What's more trollish than standing on the bridge chancing your luck by saying 'give us your money so I can make this game / get the bus home etc' anyway? Schafer/ Double Fine should respect every last bit of money that they've been given. Insult one backer and you might as well have insulted all.
to be honest , the guy paid 1$ and he wont receive the game anyway (the backers option, needs 15$ minimum). what i am pissed about is that even if its 100$ or 1 cent, people still try to support them with whatever the can, and instead of saying "we appreciate that" he says like an idiot that " he will buy sparkle cans". Moreover, the guy is totally right 2 campaigns (kickstart + humble bundle) and still not enough money, he needs to get his shit together.
He got 3 million from people and in the meanwhile, put out games like The Cave and such during that time.
He said he couldn't do it without the kickstarter money.
His Central American tour and hotels that he booked with your money cost more than he thought they would.