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Tim and Tasha talk turkey (but mostly Costume Quest) 12 Aug, 2010 / 2 comments

By Jason

MTV Multiplayer wrangled Tim Schafer and Tasha Harris to talk about the recently announced Costume Quest, which Pixar alumnus Harris is project leading. Most interesting is the way the four upcoming games from Double Fine came about, in an experiment dubbed "Amnesia Fortnight."

"For the 'Amnesia Fortnight' project we let people fill out a form where they got to rank which game they worked on and then we also let the leaders on each team rank who they wanted on their team. We had this amazing Excel spreadsheet that, somehow, using algebra, or possibly calculus, decided the intersection of those two ranks to put everyone on the team they most wanted to be on and also where they were most needed."


More great stuff, including the influences on Costume Quest, can be found in the full article, so go read it - the life you save may be your own.

Source: MTV Multiplayer

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    thesporkman on 19 Aug, 2010, 11:36…
    So... that Antiques Roadshow game Tim joked about... Well...

    http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/102798-Funny-Coincidence-Tim-Schafer-Making-Antiques-Roadshow
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    The Tingler on 12 Aug, 2010, 05:48…
    I wonder if 99% percent of them wrote as their first choice "Tim's team"...

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