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.
Sounds like an excuse to play the first one.
I'll fund Brutal Legend 2 then.
Is 5 bucks enough to get the ball rolling?
Hell yeah.
Interesting.
Would love a second game.
That's freakin cool.
I don't know what to think. Isn't it a little early for a news article about this?
Though Shafer's comment seems super interesting...
The plot thickens.
Let's give it more than three hours to develop though, shall we?
Time to play the original, too bad I missed out on the steam sale a few days ago.
Hopefully this turns into something real, but honestly, I don't consider Twitter convos newsworthy.
Good, good. Psychonauts is a gem of a game.
I will forever be in debt to Notch if he follows through.
Yes.
I'm currently playing psychonauts for the first time and I think its a great game so far.
Nice! Crazy happenings are good sometimes...
@Atwa said:
As will I.
I cannot express how much I hope this will come true.
Sounds like a perfect partnership.
Mojang published Psychonauts?
I hope if the sequel is made they make an even tougher Meat Circus 2.0 level.