Tim Schafer, founder of Double Fine Productions.
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The zany Tim Schafer has gone psycho with five games in the works

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Tim Schafer, one of the zaniest people in video games, is having his “double finest” hour. The founder of Double Fine Productions has his chance on the big stage to talk about multiple new games at the Sony PlayStation Experience (PSX) fan event in San Francisco on Saturday.

His company has already raised $1.8 million of its $3.3 million goal for the new Psychonauts 2 video game on Fig, the new crowdfunding platform that Schafer helped start. With the crowdfunding campaign going well, Schafer is on his way to being truly independent, something that is important to his ability to keep creating zany original games.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.