View Full Version : Tim Schafer Working on New Game
thecrazyd
11-17-2005, 10:16 PM
The title says it all. No real info, but apparently it's very rad.
Yes, we are working on a new game, duh. Of course! What do you think we're going to be doing? After we read and answer all our fan mail, we still have at least 45 minutes left each day that we have to kill somehow. So we decided to make a game. Can I tell you anything about it? No effing way. It's so secret, it hurts. But it's probably the raddest thing that I have ever seen. Seriously, it's so amazingly awesome that every time I look at it I get a little teary-eyed. I think I'm in love with it. I think I'm going to make out with it. I think I want to kill it a bear. I think I want to carve it's name into my chest with broken glass, I love it so much.
Source: DFAN (http://www.doublefine.com/news.htm#16November2005)
LilEvilFish
11-18-2005, 03:26 AM
what a passionate chap
swiftdraw
11-18-2005, 04:00 AM
Schafer is off his fuckin' nut... While he is making wild analogies, I wonder if he is also going say he'll "make us his bitch" with this game.
Ok, that was a bit dated...
earthworm48
11-18-2005, 04:08 AM
First heard of this in his 20 questions bit with Edge. Its Tim and I love him. I wondering on the format though, probably going to be a console game according to what he says on the Edge Thing (http://www.edge-online.co.uk/archives/2005/10/faq_tim_schafer_1.php) and Psychonauts was going to be xbox exclusive until Microsoft stopped their deal.
Scaryboy
11-18-2005, 04:46 AM
This news gives me a happy.
Please make this new game for the Revolution...
RandomViolence
11-18-2005, 05:26 AM
I heart Tim Schafer.
Nath5000
11-18-2005, 05:39 AM
There's nothing like Tim Schafer humor. I'd love another psychonauts-type platformer, but Im too excited at the thought of what other cool things he has come up with since he started doublefine.
I hate to be a hype mongering fanboy, but I'm pre-ordering now.
Suicidal ShiZuru
11-18-2005, 06:00 AM
Awesome, I remember hearing a while back that Psychonauts might be the last game from him, at least for a while.
TheHulk
11-18-2005, 06:03 AM
He's a guy that makes games that having something a lot of games are missing these days - FUN!
agentgray
11-18-2005, 06:04 AM
I at first thought, the dude off of Letterman?
Stormwatcher
11-18-2005, 06:10 AM
Tim Schafer is one of the greatest devs EVER. He never made a crappy game. More power to him!
Neverborne
11-18-2005, 06:15 AM
This is news? A game developer is making a game. That's it?
What's the title, what's the game's gimmick, what system will it be released on, when it is going to be released? These would all be valid questions to make this newsworthy.
I can't even go on. This article is so stupid I'm going to have a stroke.
earthworm48
11-18-2005, 06:19 AM
Its TIM SCHAFER. Every game he has worked on has been awesome (MI, FT, GF and Psychonauts) and the fact he is making a new game is still news. The other stuff is announced later. Lots of people are still interested that he is working on something though.
Also, he HAS never for future reference Stormwatcher. Just saying.
Worldcrafter
11-18-2005, 06:23 AM
This is news? A game developer is making a game. That's it?
What's the title, what's the game's gimmick, what system will it be released on, when it is going to be released? These would all be valid questions to make this newsworthy.
I can't even go on. This article is so stupid I'm going to have a stroke.
Huh, guess you've never had the privilege of playing a Tim Schafer game. If that's the case, go pick up Psychonauts and get back to us. Then you'll see why Tim Schafer making a new game is so exciting. The man bleeds fun games.
I love reading interviews with him! you can almost taste the Monkey Island dialogue from his words. What a great guy. Can't wait to buy another of his games.
MosBen
11-18-2005, 06:40 AM
It's also legitimate news because his last phenomenal game didn't sell as well as it should have and there were some doubts if he would make another. So, news that they're working on something new is in fact newsworthy.
It's newsworthy, because of his track record.
If Darren Aronofsky, Peter Jackson, or god help me, even Joss Whedon were to make such an announcement regarding a new movie, most movie news sites would carry it.
No, I'm not mad enough to be saying Whedon is a good a movie maker as Aronofsky.
RandomViolence
11-18-2005, 06:51 AM
It's newsworthy, because of his track record.
If Darren Afronsky, Peter Jackson, or god help me, even Joss Whedon were to make such an announcement regarding a new movie, most movie news sites would carry it.
No, I'm not mad enough to be saying Whedon is a good a movie maker as Afronsky.
It's Aronofsky, you bastard!!! :D
Yeah, but I always get it wrong. I have Pi and Requim For A Dream DVD's about 2 foot from my chair and all...
agentgray
11-18-2005, 07:52 AM
"That's a nice nose-ring you've got there. Let's see how it looks....
...on the bar!"
Classic.
Paltry
11-18-2005, 08:23 AM
its much better to hear about a game like this than in a cold press release... even if were not, you know, hearing anything about said game
Ravana
11-18-2005, 09:04 AM
ahaha
I love this guy as much as I love his games.
Captain Awesome
11-18-2005, 09:15 AM
Tim Schafer fucking rules.
Morrolan
11-18-2005, 10:34 AM
Fankly, I'm surprised. I thought I heard that he basically invested 100% of his personal savings in Psychonauts, and that he was really betting on its success. When Psychonauts didn't sell so well (or... at all? Did I buy the only copy?) I figured it might be bye-bye for Doublefine. I'm glad I was wrong in that. That's why this is news, because there was a question as to whether or not he WOULD be making another game.
Regardless: WOOOO!
thecrazyd
11-18-2005, 11:02 AM
When Psychonauts didn't sell so well (or... at all? Did I buy the only copy?)
There are four copies of that game in my household.
Lodin
11-18-2005, 11:30 AM
The European Psychonauts launch is on Friday. I already imported a US copy but I'm sure as hell hyping all my friends into buying it.
Seeing as there's still a market for quirky little games like this over here I'm hoping it'll sell really well. Let's face it, it didn't exactly shine sales-wise in the US.
Stormwatcher
11-18-2005, 11:58 AM
I'm curious about how many copies of this game were actually sold. There are some games that are assumed to have sold pretty badly, but often those games aren't so unsuccesful. System Shock 2 being a big case.
And thanks, I did write it incorrectly.
Worldcrafter
11-18-2005, 12:28 PM
One of my old psych professors played Psychonauts and loved it. She was apparently telling her class about not being able to beat the lung fish. I talked to her about it, and she said her daughter has a copy for her Xbox, and her husband has a copy for his PC. That made me pretty damn happy!
PimpMasterToTheMax
11-18-2005, 12:32 PM
Hell yeah! This is great news. Maybe not as entertaining as the fanboy slap fights that have exploded around the 360 launch, but much more newsworthy. Tim Schafer is arguably the best comedy game writer since the Infocom days, and I'll buy every one of his games until either one of us is dead (even longer, if he has the power of L. Ron Hubbard).
Spigot
11-18-2005, 01:24 PM
If it's half as awesome as Psychonauts or any of his earlier stuff, we'll be in for a treat. I just hope that it doesn't face the crazy publishing hurdles Pyschonauts did.
Thenetcase
11-18-2005, 03:52 PM
Mommy, Tim Schafer touched me where it smells funny. Is he a bad man?
enversi
11-18-2005, 03:54 PM
I helped playtest Psychonauts. I have to say, Doublefine studios is awesome. Some great and talented people working there. I can only imagine the next game they have planned... Droool.
ElectricMonk
11-18-2005, 05:36 PM
hopefully they can make the next game in < 3 years though
Adewade
11-19-2005, 12:12 PM
Plus, Tim Shafer is just a genius at life. I was reading his developer journal thingies earlier this year that he had written while working on Grim Fandango... and he had the best idea I'd heard in quite a while: Flossing in the shower.
Think about it - What do you never have time for? Flossing. What do take any excuse to stay for longer in? A shower. Combine the two? Hygenics Ahoy!
*Legion*
11-19-2005, 12:35 PM
I'm curious about how many copies of this game were actually sold. There are some games that are assumed to have sold pretty badly, but often those games aren't so unsuccesful. System Shock 2 being a big case.
And thanks, I did write it incorrectly.
Grim Fandango being a big case as well.
According to Schafer himself (on G4's Icons), people have always assumed Grim Fandango "didn't sell well", but he says the game met and passed all of its financial expectations.
I think Schafer is fully aware how well his games will sell. I'm sure the budgeting for his projects reflects the fact that the titles won't exactly sell like Madden.
mister_slim
11-20-2005, 05:23 PM
Grim Fandango being a big case as well.
According to Schafer himself (on G4's Icons), people have always assumed Grim Fandango "didn't sell well", but he says the game met and passed all of its financial expectations.
I think Schafer is fully aware how well his games will sell. I'm sure the budgeting for his projects reflects the fact that the titles won't exactly sell like Madden.
I wouldn't be surprised if Psychonauts cost more to make than Madden, at least Madden '06 anyway. I think they'll recover their costs though, but I doubt DF or Majesco will make any money.
destoo
09-07-2007, 06:33 PM
The title says it all. No real info, but apparently it's very rad.
That top secret game was so rad...
http://www.doublefine.com/news.php/minigames/epic_fighter
KingGorilla
09-07-2007, 07:33 PM
destoo, you stole my thunder, motherfucker.
Also, killer I cannot wait to see what Shafer comes up with next. Sadly, Psychonauts is one of the greatest game that you have never played. What it did to level design, game progression, and the infusion of adventure conventions were fantastic. Psychonauts is like a great book, I lend it and recommend it to just about everybody.
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