Tim Schafer would 'love' to make an XBLA game
by Justin McElroy 
{ Nov 13th 2007 at 12:25PM }
We, like all good and wise people, love Tim Schafer. What we don't love is having to wait years between fresh infusions of Double Fine goodness. So it gave us no small amount of pleasure to hear that while speaking at the 2007 IGDA Leadership Forum, Schafer said he'd love to make a small XBLA game, even though he didn't have one in the works."We talk about making Xbox Live Arcade games all the time. Who doesn't want to make Xbox Live Arcade games?" he said. "It's like when you see a Great Dane taking a giant shit and then you see a poodle taking a little Tootsie Roll shit. The poodle is so cute, but at the end of the day you're still picking up shit. Seriously though, we'd love to make Xbox Live Arcade games, but we're really busy now." ... We're not exactly sure what you meant by that, Tim. But we're fairly sure we couldn't have said it better ourselves.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
gonk @ Nov 13th 2007 12:27PM
he sure likes his shit
or
he sure knows his shit
pick ur phrase
Jerk Face @ Nov 13th 2007 12:31PM
That is the best analogy ever used in the English language.
Gangsta Smurf @ Nov 13th 2007 1:26PM
Yeah, that made absolute perfect sense to me... and that's really sad.
Cyro @ Nov 13th 2007 12:32PM
What is all this shit talk?
hvnlysoldr @ Nov 13th 2007 12:53PM
About 6.4 courics
Blast Processing Megadrive @ Nov 13th 2007 12:53PM
Um... lol?
Intellectualdiot @ Nov 13th 2007 12:57PM
Actually, it's nothing like that. Nothing at all. You should sleep, Tim.
TheWarden @ Nov 13th 2007 1:37PM
That analogy is so full of win.
Also: Time Schafer is the shit.
Lawlz.
pasteymofo @ Nov 13th 2007 2:08PM
I think he's spotted a midget f*cking a goat behind the camera...
License to ill @ Nov 13th 2007 2:15PM
Dude looks like Artie Lange...
Wilson @ Nov 13th 2007 2:20PM
I don't blame the guy, I've said stuff like that too, at 3am, after being awake for 48 hrs, and I was drunk at the time.
BTW: Is it me or he looks a bit like Peter Griffin in that picture?
JLynx @ Nov 13th 2007 3:17PM
I think he means a shit is a shit regardless of of what size it is.
Judd @ Nov 13th 2007 3:44PM
Time Schafer says he wants to make an XBLA game just when downloadable Xbox titles are announced for the XBLA. And Psychonauts is among the first batch of games that have been announced. This can't be a coincidence. Come on Psychonauts 2 for XBLA.
It will make perfecet sense. Yes, the original didn't sell that well. But the kind of gamers who are aware of the original's greatness are the more hardcore gamer. They are much more likely to buy a downloadable title than the casual gamer. Plus production costs will be a lot cheaper if they don't have to make discs, cases, manuals. And they don't have to give Gamestop or any other retailer any money. If they can put the Elder Scrolls expansion on XBLA, I think this will be a perfect fit.