Tag: Tim Schafer
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Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin
Let me just preface this blog by letting you know an important fact about my personal video game world; I love Double Fine Productions. I’ve enjoyed most of their games, but even the ones I’ve not had much fun playing do not prevent me from feeling an immense respect and admiration for the developer. Regardless…
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Grim Fandango and Resident Evil: To Save the Future We Must Learn About the Past
Resident Evil and Grim Fandango are closer than you might think.
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Pixelhunter – Broken Age
Dean shares his belief that Broken Age is a refreshing take on the point and click genre.
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Broken Age to be Broken into Two Pieces
With the game outgrowing its original ambitions, the new plan is to release the first part of the Broken Age saga early next year, and use “Early Access” Steam sales to help push the development of the second episode forward. The news – which Tim broke in a “Backers of Adventure” update – seemed initially…
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Double Fine Adventure game is now titled ‘Broken Age’
It’s been just over a year since Double Fine’s Kickstarter project ‘Double Fine Adventure’ was successfully funded with a (at the time) recording breaking $3.33 million, plus an additional $130,000 or so from it’s ‘Slacker Backer’ program that is still ongoing. Now, finally, after a year of waiting Double Fine have announced the crowdfunded Double…
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Pixelhunter – Jack Houston and the Necronauts
In my last blog I was pretty enthusiastic about the Kickstarter phenomenon, particularly in connection with the rich crop of adventure games on the horizon by such luminaries as Tim Schafer, Jane Jensen and Chris Jones. Whilst I still am, it’s clear that as good as everyone’s intentions are, such an atmosphere of unchecked spending…
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Double Fine Adventure
Tim Schafer has always been something of a maverick within the games industry. Although it had originally been conceived of as serious in tone, for instance, Schafer’s dialogue for The Secret of Monkey Island convinced Ron Gilbert to turn it into a comedy. Much later, after founding Double Fine Productions, Schafer responded to the commercial…
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…And Justice For All
I was first introduced to metal when I was in Primary 4 or so; I was at a friend’s house and he showed me a video of Metallica’s Enter Sandman. I hated it and never wanted to listen to it again – little did I know, those four horsemen would later become my favourite band.…