That's awesome! It'd be really cool if Michel Ancel could fly out to SF to play Rayman 2 with Tim, since that's apparently what he played a bunch of before making the original Psychonauts.
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Psychonauts 2 Announced (Crowdfunding on Fig, PC/PS4/XB1, UE4, $3.3M goal--funded!)
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That's awesome! It'd be really cool if Michel Ancel could fly out to SF to play Rayman 2 with Tim, since that's apparently what he played a bunch of before making the original Psychonauts.
liliththepale
Banned
I imagine it's not nearly as reactionary. People are taking their time to figure out if and how much they can invest, rather than just instinctively dropping a hundred or less on one of the basic rewards.
Just watched the 3-part Psychonauts documentary - loved it 
And man, if they can pull of Psychonauts in those circumstances? Can't friggen wait to see what they do with 10 extra years of development and business experience (14 if you include Psychonauts' development time) and a whole lot more financial security.
And man, if they can pull of Psychonauts in those circumstances? Can't friggen wait to see what they do with 10 extra years of development and business experience (14 if you include Psychonauts' development time) and a whole lot more financial security.
Oh, just noticed they've actually listed what all the Dev Play episodes are going to be focused on:
1) Ratchet & Clank + Spyro the Dragon (Ted Price)
2) Prince of Persia: Sands of Time + Assassin's Creed 2 (Unknown)
3) Jak & Daxter + Crash Bandicoot (Unknown)
4) Little Big Planet + Tearaway (Unknown)
5) Season Finale + Bonus Episode (Unknown)
Pretty great lineup of games, though I guess they're not revealing who the guests will actually be yet.
Totally. Being on UE4 is super encouraging too; hopefully it'll mean avoiding many of the problems that they ran into on Brutal Legend and Broken Age.
1) Ratchet & Clank + Spyro the Dragon (Ted Price)
2) Prince of Persia: Sands of Time + Assassin's Creed 2 (Unknown)
3) Jak & Daxter + Crash Bandicoot (Unknown)
4) Little Big Planet + Tearaway (Unknown)
5) Season Finale + Bonus Episode (Unknown)
Pretty great lineup of games, though I guess they're not revealing who the guests will actually be yet.
Just watched the 3-part Psychonauts documentary - loved it
And man, if they can pull of Psychonauts in those circumstances? Can't friggen wait to see what they do with 10 extra years of development and business experience (14 if you include Psychonauts' development time) and a whole lot more financial security.
Totally. Being on UE4 is super encouraging too; hopefully it'll mean avoiding many of the problems that they ran into on Brutal Legend and Broken Age.
liliththepale
Banned
Ooh, Tearaway is a call. None of the advertising really showed it, but there's a lot of very tight platforming in the back half of the game.
Andy Gavin would be great for the Crash/Jak run. Mark Cerny too.
Broken Age was 2HB, not Buddha.
Andy Gavin would be great for the Crash/Jak run. Mark Cerny too.
Broken Age was 2HB, not Buddha.
I'd be happy with either of those guys. Tearaway is definitely a good choice, especially now that Unfolded is around. Lots of clever platforming challenges and puzzles in that version.
Oh sure, I just meant that they both had issues and hold-ups as a result of their bespoke engines. I remember reading that Brutal went through all sorts of troubles with middleware, and Broken Age just meant countless hours writing the new engine.
Ultimadrago
Member
Oh man! This should be fun.
John Kowalski
Banned
Man i really feel like playing some Spyro right now.
Ultimadrago
Member
Wait, looking at the standing orders playing as Raz from Psychonauts 1 in Psychonauts 2 is a goal?
WTF. That one should totally already be a fun given. Anyways, I'm hoping it's hit.
Edit: Woo! 2.6 Million!
WTF. That one should totally already be a fun given. Anyways, I'm hoping it's hit.
Edit: Woo! 2.6 Million!
NoFaceNico
Member
If you mean stuff outside of the "brain charts" then pages 53 through 57 of their Offering Memorandum deal mostly with market research and analysis but it's mostly about how they hope to compete in today's industry, not really any research as far as sourced or peer-reviewed stuff goes. It's also worth taking a look at the "risks" section as well because that goes into marketing stuff too.
Even if they only get funded with 3.3m (although they will get 4m or higher), this campaign will still provide them with much more money than the adventure one. The percentage they are giving to fig is probably much smaller than was the case with kickstarter. Also since more than 50% of raised money will come from investment, that can be seen as pure money to spend with no additional costs tied to it in this early process. It would be interesting to see for this campaign the percentage of the real money they get to spend on the game compared to the DFA one.
CecilRousso
Member
I wonder how much of the pledge investment that will fail to materialize for them, considering there doesn't seem to be any kind of commitment needed for the unaccredited investors. I would assume the goal for the project is set that high to cover for some of those losses.
I seem to remember the "physical rewards" cost from DFA being about 300k? The breakdown showed up in one of the early documentary videos.
HellBlazer
Member
Huh, didn't notice that. Weird. Maybe just a joke though.
It would be cool if you could play as Lili as well though.
Ultimadrago
Member
Huh, didn't notice that. Weird. Maybe just a joke though.
It would be cool if you could play as Lili as well though.
Yeah, Lili's great! I would love if she were playable.
HUELEN10
Member
Yes!
Really strong line up of games I must say
. Looking forward to seeing the videos when they come out .Adds it
Grampa Simpson
Banned
Seriously considering investing. I feel like I should resist.
PurpleMoustache
Member
Yeah, want to confirm this. I asked this in the comments on FIG and Greg Rice from Double Fine confirmed you get both versions.
Ultimate_Trainer
Member
Has anyone else been getting this? This feels bizzare
Has anyone else been getting this? This feels bizzare
It's likely because you visited Fig, so now you're getting linkback advertising.
Gingerbread Fetus
Neo Member
To be honest, it would make more sense. Raz already has a bunch of awesome powers. Maybe he'll trip on a rock and lose all of his badges. However, Lili didn't really have an adventure in the first game, so she wouldn't have any of those badges, except for levitation.
liliththepale
Banned
I would love to play as Lili in the game, but she doesn't have the circus acrobatics background. As much as I love her character, I need the game to be a fully fledged platformer.
Ultimadrago
Member
It's said that she had earned every merit badge before Raz even shows, so she should have those powers. Of course, she doesn't have much of a reason to harness them all throughout the game.
Fair enough, Raz's acrobatic background did play well into the platforming mechanics of the original. But I still enjoy the idea of having a few areas where platforming isn't key or required much at all while the enclosed plot of the level took over. I'm not going to pretend adding another character model is easy pumpkin pie, but tossing Lili at least a few would be appreciated.
liliththepale
Banned
I think it just means they'll have to be more creative about it. Maybe less tightrope and pole swinging, and more levitation-type psi powers.
Animating the character isn't the hard part here (which Tim agrees on if you look at his Twitter posts regarding the Ubisoft debacle from last year). It'd be more about telling an interesting and cohesive story.
Ultimadrago
Member
Thank you, sir.
Aww yiss. Thanks for posting!
Messofanego
Banned
Backed with $100. Hadn't seen that Psychonauts retrospective or this Devs Play of Spyro, so thanks for the heads up!
Make sure you subscribe to Double Fine on Youtube (or just keep an eye on their channel), as there's a bunch more Dev Play videos coming after this one. I imagine Ratchet and Clank with Ted Price will be next.
You're welcome.
Messofanego
Banned
Oh yeah, I'm subscribed. Their Dev Play of Aladdin and Lion King was excellent, with the dev of those games. Just forgot they had new content until this thread got bumped
DannyDanger
Member
I honestly didnt this campaign would succeed. Its already 83%, good for them
StoppedInTracks
Member
hear hear
Kurt Angle
Member
do you get the psychonauts pc code right now after putting in 10$?
wouldnt mind playing it right now and funding the sequel
wouldnt mind playing it right now and funding the sequel
Ultimadrago
Member
Sadly no since you only get charged when the funding period ends. Hopefully itll be on sale for Winter Steam sale though!
Psi-ball bouncing all DAY