1-on-1 With Double Fine's Tim Schafer: Psychonauts 2, Being Acquired by Microsoft, and More!

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🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Our final episode of 2020 is a special one! Ryan welcomes Tim Schafer, the head of Double Fine (aka one of the newest Xbox Game Studios), for a 40-minute conversation about life since being acquired by Microsoft. But don't fret – that very much includes an update on Psychonauts 2 as well! P.S. We're off next week but we'll be back with new episodes of Unlocked starting January 5. Happy holidays and Happy New Year!

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0:00.0	This is Steve Downs, the voice of Master Chief Sierra 117 and you're listening to podcast unlocked the world's number one Xbox podcast now
0:12.1	Finish this fight
0:14.5	Master Chief out
0:19.6	What's happening everybody welcome to podcast unlocked episode
0:22.5	475 the final IGN unlocked episode here of 2020 and sending us out in style is none other than Tim Schaeffer
0:33.3	One of the newer Microsoft employees
0:36.8	Er at double fine studios just down the way
0:40.0	From what used to be when we had offices they were just down the way from us and now who knows but Tim Schaeffer welcome
0:48.0	Hello, thanks for having me nice to be here. I got a pause really
0:51.2	Pause this is where everyone's gonna clap right
0:53.8	Great and they've just nice to be introduced as someone new feels so old these days like yeah, no, you're a new guy
0:59.6	You're the new guy fellow Microsoft
1:02.7	Were you hazed at all at
1:04.9	At the first like sort of team dinner of all the of all the new studio heads?
1:10.9	Yeah, I did like Brian Fargo put any sort of salt in my
1:14.4	Desert no I will not that I know yet the real hazing is oh it's coming my cats coming
1:21.6	They this is another rest is another kitten that's gonna ruin this interview. Sorry. Oh here
1:26.0	We know they're enhancing it the viewership is going up. Yeah, yeah
1:31.4	The internet and cats is this is running the bank
1:34.1	but
1:35.1	Yeah, I do feel like the new kids still there, but
1:38.8	As soon as we ship our first game
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