Line #32 Creator/DoubleFine


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8	[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Double_Fine_Productions_001_1508.jpg]]
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10	->''"[[MetalScream DOUBLE FIIIIIIIINE!!!]]"''
11	-->'''-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPTYGyIMAiI Various,]]''' ''[[VideoGame/BrutalLegend Brütal Legend]]'' intro
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13	Double Fine Productions is a San Francisco-based game developer founded by Creator/TimSchafer of Creator/LucasArts in July 2000. Founding members include Creator/RonGilbert of ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland'', and others who had worked on ''VideoGame/GrimFandango''. The company is famous for producing humourous, quirky, character-driven games, most famously their first, the critically-acclaimed but [[AcclaimedFlop poorly-selling]] ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''.
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15	The company's next game was ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'', which had a troubled publishing history. Though expecting to develop a sequel, publisher Creator/ElectronicArts showed no interest in funding it, and for the first time, Double Fine faced the prospect of lay-offs in order to remain afloat. The company was saved by prototypes staff members developed during the "Amnesia Fortnight" in the middle of Brütal Legend's development, a two-week period in which employees halted all work on the company's current projects to work on game concepts proposed by employees, and inspired by similar breaks taken by Hong Kong film maker Creator/WongKarWai. The resulting products, small but full games in their own right, were showed to various publishers and became ''VideoGame/CostumeQuest'', ''VideoGame/{{Stacking}}'', ''VideoGame/IronBrigade'', and ''Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster''. Double Fine also received financial support by "fun investor" [[http://www.dracogen.com/ Dracogen,]] who funded the Mac port of ''Stacking'', the PC port of ''Costume Quest'', and the company's first iOS and free-to-play game ''VideoGame/MiddleManagerOfJustice''.
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17	Double Fine now focuses on developing smaller titles instead of more expansive games, including ''VideoGame/BrokenAge'', a 2D point-and-click adventure game funded through Kickstarter[[note]]as "Double Fine Adventure"[[/note]] and documented by 2 Player Productions, side-scrolling adventure platformer ''VideoGame/TheCave'' by Creator/RonGilbert, and four Amnesia Fortnight prototypes voted for and partially funded by the public through the Humble Indie Bundle.
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19	At UsefulNotes/{{E3}} 2019, it was announced that Double Fine was purchased by Microsoft, becoming the newest addition to the Creator/XboxGameStudios family.
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21	Their [[http://www.doublefine.com website]] also features small Flash games and webcomics made by various staff members, demonstrating the developers' senses of humour.
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23	"[[MeaningfulName Double Fine]]" refers to the double fine zone on the Marin side of the [[UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco Golden Gate Bridge]].[[note]]The incorrectly labeled San Francisco level of VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare is set on this zone.[[/note]] According to Tim Schafer he "ingeniously selected the name Double Fine so that when people drove over the bridge they would see the name 'Double Fine' and think, not just that [the company] had purchased ad space on what must be the most expensive billboard in California, but that [they] owned the city and all of San Francisco had been declared to be a 'Double Fine Zone'." Their mascot is affectionately referred to by staff members as the "Double-Headed Baby" or "DHB".
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25	!! Games developed:
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27	* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' - 2005
28	* ''[[VideoGame/BrutalLegend Brütal Legend]]'' - 2009
29	* ''VideoGame/CostumeQuest'' - 2010
30	* ''VideoGame/{{Stacking}}'' - 2011
31	* ''VideoGame/IronBrigade'' (formerly ''Trenched'') - 2011
32	* ''Series/SesameStreet: Once Upon a Monster'' - 2011
33	* ''Happy Action Theater'' - 2012
34	* ''VideoGame/MiddleManagerOfJustice'' - 2012
35	* ''VideoGame/TheCave'' - 2013
36	* ''Autonomous'' - 2013
37	* ''Dropchord'' - 2013
38	* ''VideoGame/BrokenAge'' Part 1 - 2014, Part 2 - 2015
39	* ''VideoGame/CostumeQuest 2'' - 2014
40	* ''VideoGame/SpacebaseDF9'' - 2014
41	* ''VideoGame/HackNSlash'' - 2014
42	* ''VideoGame/MassiveChalice'' - 2015
43	* ''VideoGame/GrimFandango'' (UpdatedRerelease) - 2015
44	* ''VideoGame/{{Headlander}}'' - 2016
45	* ''VideoGame/DayOfTheTentacle'' (UpdatedRerelease) - 2016
46	* ''VideoGame/PsychonautsInTheRhombusOfRuin'' - 2017
47	* ''VideoGame/FullThrottle'' (UpdatedRerelease) - 2017
48	* ''VideoGame/{{Rad}}'' - 2019
49	* ''VideoGame/Psychonauts2'' - 2021
50	[[/index]]
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52	!!Tropes Commonly Appearing In Double Fine's Games:
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58	* AcclaimedFlop: Critics fall over themselves to praise and lavish love on their games. Almost everything they've ever put out has crashed and burned in stores. You can get most Double Fine games for about five bucks in remainder bins.
59	* ActionGirl: Milla "The Mental Minx" Vodello from ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'', and pretty much every female character from VideoGame/BrutalLegend, especially Ophelia and Lita.
60	* AmazingTechnicolorBattlefield: Dropchord is this, but without the 'battlefield' part.
61	* InSeriesNickname: "Bagel" for Nathan Stapley, and "Raz" for Razmig Mavlian.
62	* {{Kaiju}}: The "Lungfishopolis" level of ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'', as well as one minigame each in both ''Double Fine Happy Action Theatre'' and ''Kinect Party''. The costumes in VideoGame/CostumeQuest become these in battle.
63	* KidHero: Razputin "Raz" Aquato in VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}, Wren, Reynold, Everett, and Lucy in VideoGame/CostumeQuest, Charlie Blackmore in VideoGame/{{Stacking}}, & "Space Boy" (Shay Volta) and "Sacrifice Girl" (Velouria "Vella" Beastender Tartine) in VideoGame/BrokenAge. The Twins of VideoGame/TheCave are more of the AntiHero variety.
64	* MythologyGag: Pretty much every game they've made has at least one CallBack to a previous game they've made. Expect 2HB to make some kind of cameo, too.
65	* PerpetualSmiler: Brad Muir, lead designer of VideoGame/{{Trenched}} and ''VideoGame/MassiveChalice''. [[http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/2694591/Brad.jpg His nickname isn't ":D" for nothing!]]
66	* ProductionPosse: If Tim is the head of a certain game (and even sometimes when he isn't), you can expect Peter [=McConnell=] to be composing the soundtrack, while actors from ''Psychonauts'' (Creator/RichardHorvitz, Creator/NikkiRapp, Creator/StephenStanton), ''Brutal Legend'' (Creator/JackBlack, Creator/JenniferHale), or various Creator/LucasArts projects he worked on back in the day to show up in the voice acting list.
67	* SmokingIsCool: [[VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}} Sasha Nein]] smokes cigarettes because he's a detached 1960s superspy. [[VideoGame/IronBrigade Woodruff, The Marine, and Murderface]] all smoke cigars to show their manliness/badassery.
68	* StartMyOwn: One of the two companies started up by ex-Creator/LucasArts employees who left because [=LucasArts=] stopped being an innovative company, stopped caring for adventure titles, and became a vehicle to solely churn out Franchise/StarWars games.
69	* VisualPun: The new bumper for ''Psychonauts 2'' has a circus strongman lighting a match on an Xbox Game Studios matchbox to launch the Double-Headed Baby out from a cannon. That is, "strongman" Microsoft is helping Double Fine launch the game.
70	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Many of the "Amnesia Fortnight" prototypes are never made into games, although the devs who worked on them are still fond of their projects, and they've gained fans via the playable prototypes DF have released. The pitch video for ''VideoGame/MassiveChalice'' shows [[{{Showrunner}} Brad Muir]] is still grumpy over not being able to successfully pitch ''Brazen''.

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