Double Fine Productions Next Project After Psychonauts 2 Is A New IP, Studio Head Shares

This year developer Double Fine Productions celebrates its 20th anniversary since the founding of the developer in 2000. In that, the studio shared a new single that will be featured in the team’s coming project, Psychonauts 2. Additionally, the firm shared that the upcoming title will be pushed the following year into 2021. However, what lies ahead will be interesting to see from Double Fine Productions.

What we know so far is not much to expand on the context of the new title that follows Psychonauts 2. Speaking with Game Informer this past August, Xbox Game Studios head Matt Booty disclosed that the firm will continue to develop multiplatform titles following the release of its upcoming sequel. Despite the team being under Microsoft’s first-party network of developers, this will not affect the team’s ambitions to create games for other platforms.

During a recent Kinda Funny We Have Cool Friends podcast, host Greg Miller spoke with studio Founder Tim Shafer on the history of Double Fine Productions and the contents that initiated the decision to be part of Xbox Game Studios. Well into the interview, Shafer reveals that the title to follow Psychonauts 2 will be a new intellectual property.

“Let me tell you, next game is not going to be a sequel,” Shafer reveals during the discussion. “Starting with – Broken Age, which it sort of got a nostalgia thing cause its an adventure game […] that was a little bit of a retro thing and we did all those remasters of Grim and Throttle and Day of the Tentacle which is great fun, but that was also kind of a trip to the past. And now we’re doing Psychonauts 2 which is a sequel so I feel like ever since 2012 I have been looking backwards a little bit and I’m like ‘okay, for now on after this game – for a long time we’re just gonna do original and new stuff.’ Brand new; shiny new stuff.”

Schafer references the previous shipment of landmark titles that returned for current systems. It wasn’t until this past May that Schafer disclosed with IGN’s Ryan McCaffrey that the trilogy of Double Fine’s most recognized properties will be arriving to Xbox sometime later this year.

As for the new title that is said to arrive later on, there is still no details as of yet on the project. However, it is presumed that with Psychonauts close to its way out in development – Double Fine Productions might have already began development on the new title. One thing that should be noted is that the studio did have a job listing for an unannounced project with emphasis on multiplayer for current & next-generation consoles. You can read the full report by heading here.

What do you hope to see from this new, undisclosed project from Double Fine Productions?