UPDATE: The official line from Double Fine is short, appropriately mysterious, and will no doubt leave many speculating for months.
"Tim and Markus are talking," said the company to me in a statement just now. "Who knows what might happen?"
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Tim Schafer wants to make a sequel to Psychonauts. That’s not news. Schafer has talked about this many times in the past, and mentioning interest during a Digital Spy interview isn't crazy.
The news was Markus “Notch” Persson, better known as the creator of Minecraft, offered to pony up the cash to help make Psychonauts 2 on Twitter. Persson claims he’s serious about it.
“Let's make Psychonauts 2 happen,” he said.
“I’m serious,” he said in a follow-up.
This all happened hours ago, long before Schafer had even woke up in San Francisco. He awoke to texts asking him to check Twitter.
“Man, so many tweets,” he said. “I assume this is all people asking for codes to Happy Action Theater and Rise of the Martian Bear?”
And then came this one:
“Oh wait,” he said. “Hm. This is interesting.”
This wouldn’t be the first time Double Fine Productions has accepted money from a Twitter backer, with Costume Quest for the PC and Psychonauts for the Mac having been funded by fan and XE.com founder Steven Dengler.
Dengler actually chimed in today, too.
“Let's move this discussion offline,” said Dengler.
So far, Double Fine has not issued an official response, but all eyes will remain on Twitter.