Yesterday, Double Fine and THQ announced Costume Quest, the first downloadable project in a two-game deal, due this Halloween. According to THQ, the unnamed second project is a third-person adventure and is "scheduled to be released in early 2011."
It's not clear whether this game (one of four "smaller" games from Double Fine) comes from the mind of Lee Petty, Nathan Martz, or Brad Muir -- the other three developers listed during Double Fine head Tim Schafer's talk at Develop -- but we've asked THQ for clarification. Given what we know about the three other titles, the unnamed game could be anything from "sort of retro but also new" (Petty's) to one that "focuses on gameplay mechanics" (Muir's). Frankly, we can't imagine why anyone would base a whole game on the lives of gameplay mechanics. Do they just come in and fix your gameplay?
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Posted: Aug 11th 2010 11:25AM Magetf said
Double Fine has been such a disappointment. When I heard Schafer was starting his own studio, I thought it was going to be awesome, with visions of Grim Fandango dancing in my head. Now here we are 10 years later and we have a funny, albeit mundane, platformer and a mess of a failure in Brutal Legend.
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Posted: Aug 11th 2010 1:31PM SisypheanLife said
@Magetf
I loved Psychonauts and Brutal Legend. They're both hidden gems.
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I loved Psychonauts and Brutal Legend. They're both hidden gems.
Posted: Aug 11th 2010 3:18PM Its X with Guns said
I hadn't thought of using such a term in such a fashion. Bravo.
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