The Develop Conference in Brighton finished yesterday. Sadly, we were unable to attend but here’s what’s happening in videogames, from around the web: Doublefine has managed to achieve a 100% being dropped by publishers, going through four of them – though, as Schafer notes, since they still exist, so maybe there’s a business plan there
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The latest game from the mind of Tim Schafer and Double Fine Productions
It’s a chirpy light-hearted game where you help Raz (your psychic trainee hero) learn his new skills to earn his Psychonaut merit badges while wandering through bizarre mind-worlds to sort out entanglements in his and his teachers’ brains. These worlds are brilliantly diverse and psychedelic is the only appropriate word for the level designs.
Puzzles are mostly of the shooting or jump-about-platforms variety but with enough mad locations and twisted pathways to keep them interesting. The plotline and one-liners are intriguing enough to keep you going, although if you weren’t amused by the quotes above, this game definitely isn’t for you.
“Now why are you still talkin’ when you could be burnin’ stuff?”
