DoubleFineProd | Psychonauts 2 Update #8 - Psychic Powers! @DoubleFineProd | Uploaded August 2018 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Slacker Backing is now available - head on over to fig.co/psy2, and select a tier to Pre-Order!
Greetings Psycho-backers!
It’s been a little while since we last spoke, but rest assured we’ve been heads down working hard on Psychonauts 2! The team is now hovering around 40 people, we are full steam ahead on content creation, and the game is really coming together! We recently completed a milestone that we dubbed a “Narrative Pilot”, which meant building an area that was fully scripted and voiced, with dialogue and jokes and animation and all the things that give us a slice of gameplay that feels like a fully completed game.
The aim of this was to give us the confidence that we are not only making a good game, but a good Psychonauts game. We just completed a studio-wide playthrough and review session of that area to gather feedback on it, and the reaction has been fantastic! We can’t wait to show you all this stuff, but we’re not quite there yet. Don’t fret though, because we still have plenty for you to feast your eyes on!
In this update we wanted to take you on a deeper dive into the world of Raz’s Psychic Powers. Naturally Raz has already received extensive psychic training, so you’ll begin the game with many of the psychic abilities that he learned to harness at Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp. For those returning powers, the team has focused on making sure that each PSI ability is fun and useful, and on finding a visual style that feels uniquely “psychic.” Classic powers like Telekinesis, PSI Blast, and Pyrokinesis have been totally reworked and you’ll notice lots of improvements from the first game!
As for the new powers we’re adding this game… well, more on that in an upcoming update. :)
Dive on into the latest 2 Player Productions project update to meet Amy Price, our mighty Programmer of Powers, and learn about the journey she’s been on to get them working juuuuuust right.
Slacker Backing is now available - head on over to fig.co/psy2, and select a tier to Pre-Order!
Greetings Psycho-backers!
It’s been a little while since we last spoke, but rest assured we’ve been heads down working hard on Psychonauts 2! The team is now hovering around 40 people, we are full steam ahead on content creation, and the game is really coming together! We recently completed a milestone that we dubbed a “Narrative Pilot”, which meant building an area that was fully scripted and voiced, with dialogue and jokes and animation and all the things that give us a slice of gameplay that feels like a fully completed game.
The aim of this was to give us the confidence that we are not only making a good game, but a good Psychonauts game. We just completed a studio-wide playthrough and review session of that area to gather feedback on it, and the reaction has been fantastic! We can’t wait to show you all this stuff, but we’re not quite there yet. Don’t fret though, because we still have plenty for you to feast your eyes on!
In this update we wanted to take you on a deeper dive into the world of Raz’s Psychic Powers. Naturally Raz has already received extensive psychic training, so you’ll begin the game with many of the psychic abilities that he learned to harness at Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp. For those returning powers, the team has focused on making sure that each PSI ability is fun and useful, and on finding a visual style that feels uniquely “psychic.” Classic powers like Telekinesis, PSI Blast, and Pyrokinesis have been totally reworked and you’ll notice lots of improvements from the first game!
As for the new powers we’re adding this game… well, more on that in an upcoming update. :)
Dive on into the latest 2 Player Productions project update to meet Amy Price, our mighty Programmer of Powers, and learn about the journey she’s been on to get them working juuuuuust right.
