Double Fine Productions

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Double Fine Productions
Type Private
Founded 2000
Founder Tim Schafer
Headquarters San Francisco, California, USA
Key people Tim Schafer, founder and game designer
Industry Software & Programming
Products Psychonauts, Brütal Legend
Owner Tim Schafer
Website www.doublefine.com

Double Fine Productions is a computer game developer founded in July of 2000 by Tim Schafer after his departure from LucasArts. He started Double Fine with a mixture of personnel from the Grim Fandango development team and new employees.

The name "Double Fine" comes from the Golden Gate Bridge being a "double fine zone", the company is based in San Francisco.

The official Double Fine website is also host to five webcomics, which are created by members of Double Fine's art team and are collectively referred as the Double Fine Action Comics.

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[edit] Projects

Double Fine's first completed project was a multi-platform game titled Psychonauts. Critically praised, it is available for the Xbox, PlayStation 2 and Microsoft Windows.

On August 18th, 2007 The International House of Mojo ran a story (that has been since retracted[1]) regarding the details of the next Double Fine game. It has been confirmed by 1UP in an interview with Tim Schafer that the title of the new game is Brütal Legend. In the November 2007 issue of Game Informer, the game was revealed. Brütal Legend is an Action Adventure game following the roadie Eddie Riggs, who is hurled into a metal past. Brütal Legend will release in 2008 for the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360.

[edit] Games

[edit] Awards

  • 2006 Game Developers Conference: Best New Studio

[edit] Psychonauts Awards

  • British Academy Video Games Awards 2006: Best Screenplay
  • GameSpot Best and Worst of 2005: Best Voice Acting, Best Graphics Artistic, Funniest Game, Best Game No One Played, Best Platformer
  • IGN 2005 Awards: Best Platformer, Best Game No One Played
  • EuroGamer: Overall Game of the Year 2005
  • PSM: Buy or Die award in issue #100, #5 on Top 10 Games of 2005 list, Best Characters
  • Electronic Gaming Monthly 2005 Awards: Best Game No One Played
  • 6th annual Game Developers Choice Awards: Best Writing
  • PC Gamer magazine 2005 Awards: Best Game You Didn't Play, Editor's Choice Award
  • E3 2002 Game Critics Awards: Best Original Game
  • GameShadow Innovation in Games Awards nominee (Best Game, Innovative Visual Effects, Best Narrative)

[edit] References

  1. ^ Jake of IHOM (2007-08-14). Double Fine Story retracted. www.mixnmojo.com.

[edit] External links

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