Disregard that last news update. Someone has taken the bait.
In honour of it being Charles Dickens's 200th birthday - a man who spent his 58 years on Earth creating as many babies as he created novels - popular indie guy Notch, head of developer Mojang and creator of popular game Minecraft, said the following words to Tim Schafer over Twitter: "Let's make Psychonauts 2 happen."
And then Steven Dracogen, who brought you Stacking and Costume Quest to PC, was like, "I'm in." And I was like, "Woah". And then maybe I screamed like those girls at Ed Sullivan's show when The Beatles came on. Skip to 1:35 in that video. That was so totally me.
This normally wouldn't be news-worthy, except for two reasons: Rock Paper Shotgun's confused question about whether or not to post the story, which makes a Mojo news update actually more timely than someone else's for once (Professionalism ho!); and Notch's reply, where he says he is serious (and calls Psychonauts "Tim's baby").
So! Would you like a Psychonauts sequel? It'd be interesting to see any Psychonauts-related work coming-out - doubly so since people like Erik Wolpaw (who wrote 20-30% of the dialogue) and Scott Campbell (the art director) have since left Double Fine.
Source: Twitter
The headline was good too, tell everyone who says otherwise to go Lemming style off a cliff.
I doubted Mojo covering this early since you didn't get Dracogen's investment published early. Go Kroms :D
@TimOfLegend: It's always unsettling to wake up to five text messages that say, "You'd better check your Twitter."
@TimOfLegend:Man, so many tweets. I assume this is all people asking for codes to Happy Action Theater and Rise of the Martian Bear?
@TimOfLegend: Oh wait. Hm. This is interesting.
@Dracogen: So apparently something happened on the Internets today about some old game. It's so exciting! I wonder how it will all work out.
@YeOldeDFShoppe (Double Fine Shop): @Dracogen Oh man, oh man, oh man!! I can tell you the office is buzzing today!
Kroms
Oh fey. They actually managed to put it up a little before I did.
And they have a decent headline, too. (Sorry Kroms -- I love you really! I just hate it when the joke headline is less interesting than the "proper" one. "Psychonauts 2 May Be Happening!" is actually more exciting.) #petpeeves
It just wouldn't feel the same without him!
After playing Happy Action Theater for a couple of hours (that's right, hours) last sunday and sharing a dance with Raz in that game I'm totally ready for more Psychonauts.
Then again, we probably knew about this before Tim Schafer himself did. Oh yeah. Hipster journalism.
Hey guys look at me commenting on my own news update like a madman. Hello? Is that an echo?