Double Fine Productions, Inc. is an American first-party computer game designer of Xbox Game Studios based in San Francisco, California. Established in July 2000 by Tim Schafer soon after his departure from LucasArts, Double Fine's very first two video games-- Psychonauts as well as Brütal Legend-- underperformed publishers' assumptions in spite of vital praise. The future of the firm was guaranteed when Schafer looked to several in-house prototypes developed throughout a two-week duration referred to as Amnesia Fortnight to increase as smaller sized titles, every one of which were licensed with authors and met commercial success. Schafer has considering that duplicated these Memory loss Fortnights, making use of fan-voting technicians, to aid choose and also build smaller titles. Double Fine is additionally attributed with driving interest in crowdfunding in video games, having had the ability to raise greater than US$ 3 million for the advancement of Broken Age, at the time o...