The Double Fine team wants to explore new “ideas” and “visual styles”.

 

 

Double Fine, the developer studio behind Psychonauts 2, is working on several new projects, according to a recent blog post. The team revealed in an update posted on the crowd-funding platform Fig that they are working on new projects after Psychonauts 2.

“The studio is already splitting up into various teams and starting different projects that we think you’ll enjoy.”

“We like experimentation here at Double Fine.”

“Every game is a chance to explore new ideas, new visual styles or gameplay, emotions, and more.”

Double Fine boss Tim Schafer said earlier this year that the team wanted to create something original and “completely surprising”, adding that the studio plans to work on several projects at once.

“There was a period at the end of Psychonauts 2 where we had all hands on deck to finish the game, but we’re definitely going back to multiple projects afterward. Until it happens again? Who knows? We don’t have any rules about that but we’re set up to have multiple projects and we have enough ideas to do that.”

Following Microsoft’s acquisition of Double Fine in 2019, the studio’s successive titles will be the first to be released exclusively on platforms that support Xbox Game Pass.

“We’ve been given so much creative freedom now,” Schafer said. “Nobody has probed Psychonauts to second guess our decisions or anything like that. We’ve been trusted to handle the creative side completely, but we can opt-in to all these resources, like having it tested for accessibility and mental health checks.”

Source: Fig.co