This week on Gaming: The Podcast John and Stace are joined by designed Richard Cowan and Double Fine's James 'Spaff' Spafford to discuss the making of 20 Double Fine Years, our book celebrating the history, games, people and creativity of Double Fine Productions.
We talk about the origins and reasons behind the book's existence, how we went about collating and cataloging art assets, what the goals were and what we wanted readers and Double Fine fans to take away from it.
Huge thank you to Spaff and Richard for making time to record with us.
About 20 Double Fine Years:
Led by Tim Schafer, Double Fine is about creativity, stories and fun, its games having brought joy to zillions (millions, probably, but still pretty good) over the 20 years since it made the right move and decided to exist.
Double Fine: 20 Years explores the people, ideas, inspirations and goals that have resulted in everything from Psychonauts to Costume Quest, Brütal Legend to Broken Age and stacks more.
"I summoned my court scribes and said, "Pen me a tome, worthy of the ages, so that I shall remember every amazing detail of this crazy ride we've been on, and so that nobody, not even I, forgets this amazing story." And so they did."
- Tim Schafer, Double Fine
- Tim Schafer, Double Fine
You can get your copy of 20 Double Fine Years here.
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Music by Ben Prunty.
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