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Interview: Tim Schafer On The Amnesia Fortnight Bundle
As we just mentioned, Double Fine have launched a unique Humble Bundle to let people vote from 23 game pitches to decide four that will go on to be made into prototypes. I spoke to Tim Schafer earlier...
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Interview: Tim Schafer On Kickstarter, And Good Will
Yesterday you’ll likely have noticed that Tim Schafer and Double Fine launched a new approach to a Humble Bundle, encouraging people to pay what they want for the chance to vote on what four...
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Pending PC Success, Brutal Legend Will Go On
Brutal Legend is coming to PC! With shiny, PC-only bells and whistles, no less. Be still, my barbed-wire-wrapped, blood-and-oil-coughing heart. Its arrival comes at a bit of an odd time, though, given...
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The Past, Present, And Future Of Brutal Legend
An action-RTS inspired by classic heavy metal album covers. Starring Jack Black. And a mad menagerie of metal icons. And a 100-strong soundtrack that pridefully pounded eardrums with everything from...
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Tim Schafer In Host Master Deux: Host Harder
It’s not actually called Host Harder, but it should have been, right? All I’m saying is Double Fine, if you want to pay me thousands of dollars to spend my days writing lazy comedic subtitles based on...
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Dyscourse To Feature Schafer, McMillen And More
Alec mentioned Dyscourse a couple of weeks back, rather rightly pointing out how good it looks. I’d have thought it would be a sure thing to see its Kickstarter funds ding the modest $40,000 they’re...
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Wot I Think: Broken Age
Having so recently written about the first hour of Broken Age, it doesn’t make too much sense to overly repeat myself here. So it’s well worth reading that first half of this review first. This one...
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A Game And A Chat Ep 1: Tim Schafer
And now for something completely different. Or, well, actually kinda similar to other stuff you might have seen before, but in video form and on RPS. A Game And A Chat (tentative title, probably) is a...
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Connecting The DoTTs: Schafer Plays Day Of The Tentacle
What are your personal memories of Day of the Tentacle? Mine is that for years before playing it, I thought it was called “Dave the Tentacle” because I’d only ever heard it mentioned in conversation...
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Tim Schafer On The End Of Spacebase DF-9’s Development
Last week Double Fine announced that Spacebase DF-9 development was coming to an end. The issue was that hundreds of features that had previously been listed as “maybe possibly” coming to the game...
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18-Part Double Fine Documentary Goes Free
Depending on who you ask, the first Double Fine Kickstarter was for an underwhelming adventure game which snaffled up far more money than it needed, or it was for a fascinating warts and all insight...
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Wot I Think: Broken Age Act 2
Over a year since the first act was belatedly released, Double Fine’s seminal Kickstarter project Broken Age is now complete. Act 1 was bursting with potential, if a somewhat flawed PC adventure....
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Psychonauts 2! Double Fine Crowdfunding A Sequel
Remember back in 2012 when Notch was like, “I could fund a Psychonauts 2!” and Double Fine were all, “Cool! $18m please!” and Notch was all, “Shiiiit, I was thinking more 25p, and – wow, look, an...
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Psychonauts 2’s Crowdfunding Has Ended
Psychonauts 2 was launched into crowdfunding on December 4th then hit its target on January 6th, and the campaign has now come to an end. The crowdfunding was run through FIG, a service Double Fine...
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Psychonauts 2 Backers Can Be Investors, Says Regulator
Many backers who funded Psychonauts 2 on the crowdfunding site Fig are now considered ‘investors’, says a US regulatory body, paving the way for them to get a return in real money if the game sells...
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Snowy Wasteland 3 Launches Crowdfunding On Fig
We already knew Wasteland 3 [official site] was coming out and that it was set in the frozen hinterlands of Colorado, because we have an incredible repository of knowledge and wisdom. But we didn’t...
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Tim Schafer tells the story of Amnesia Fortnight
“I started feeling a little bogged down by the scope of [Brutal Legend],” says Tim Schafer, founder of Double Fine. “It was really huge and I felt like the team had been doing it for a long time and...
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Communal Combat Mission: Turn 8
Every year The Flare Path runs a communal Combat Mission skirmish in which RPS readers attempt to outwit and outfight CM’s decidedly dangerous AI. Turns span 60 seconds and rarely go according to...
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What are we all playing this weekend?
The weekend is upon us! Before I ask wwppwappapwatw, I want to know: what you are doing to prepare to play this weekend? Me, I’ve got a routine – though of course I own tools to handle my own Cyber...
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Pyre sizzles in new trailer ahead of next week’s launch
Pyre [official site], the party-based RPG from the creators of Bastion and Transistor, is out next week, and there’s a fiery new trailer out to celebrate the launch. You control a party of exiles...
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