Latest Episode of the Double Fine Adventure Documentary Mentions Cancelled Projects

After the hugely successful Kickstarter back in March, Double Fine are now hard at work on the game currently known as ‘Double Fine Adventure’. Part of the funding for the project was also tied to a documentary (produced by 2 Player Productions) which is currently being filmed alongside production, giving the backers a true insight into video game production, showing the trials and tribulations that a studio goes through to get a game to release.

If you backed the project, you’ll have been watching the documentary episodes over on the Kickstarter page, seeing the game slowly come together through pre-production. In the latest episode of the documentary, Tim Shafer discussed the way in which they they decide on codenames for their projects, and in amongst this revealed that pre-production had begun on a number of sequels to popular Double Fine titles.

Towards the end of the latest episode, key members of the team went out to retrace the history of Double Fine through the codenames of their projects, mostly taken from Chinatown dive bars, while also on a quest to find a codename for the ‘Double Fine Adventure’. They revisited a number of bars including Lipo (Psychonauts), Buddha (Brutal Legend), Ez5 (Happy Action Theatre) and Vesuvio (Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster).

More interestingly however, is the revelation of a number of cancelled projects which were in the planning stages/pre-production such as Grasslands (Psychonauts 2), Bow Bow (Brutal Legend 2) and Empress (Sesame Street: Twice Upon a Monster), with Tim Shafer stating that it’s always nice to ‘Pour out a drink for cancelled projects’. ‘Double Fine Adventure‘ was revealed to be known as Codename Reds.

While previous titles that Tim Shafer has worked on including Money Island recieved sequels, no Double Fine IPs have so far have produced sequels, proving a great dissapointment for fans, as their titles are always full of character, as well as having lots to build from in a sequel.

Double Fine’s titles have universally been well received by critics, but haven’t shared the same success in the retail space. In fact, their latest batch of downloadable titles including Stacking, Costume Quest and Iron Brigade (Trenched) were hugely important for the company to get back on their feet.

Earlier in the episode during budget discussion it was also revealed that that they’ve spent a total of $600.000 on Reward fulfilment (Posters, T-Shirts, Art Books, Game Boxes, DVDs, Blu-Rays etc.) including both production and shipping which interestingly is more than they actually asked for to back the project initially, $400,000.

There’s certainly a lot of anticipation for the upcoming adventure title, hopefully it will be worth the wait. Did you back the project? Let us know in the comments.