“When I got to him at PAX, I said, ‘Hi Tim, my name is Zahra.
“One of the reasons my husband became a game developer was because of Tim’s games Grim Fandango and Monkey Island, so I got to know Tim’s games really well too,” Amirabadi says. She got in line at the Double Fine booth to wait for a signature from the studio’s founder, legendary game designer Tim Schafer. Soon after moving to Seattle to start her MFA in Digital Arts at DigiPen, Amirabadi went to her first PAX gaming event. It’s fitting that the world of Psychonauts 2 is about the mind made manifest, since that’s also a good description of how Amirabadi arrived at Double Fine. Because of the passion she expressed for character art during her interview, the studio switched her to the character team a few weeks after she started. A lot of studios use the same base mesh for all their characters, but we started each from scratch, and didn’t sacrifice technically challenging designs to save time.”Īmirabadi actually first came on board at Double Fine as an environment artist. “What I like about the characters is that almost none of them are the same. “All the artists added their own unique spice to bring the collective world of Psychonauts 2 to life,” Amirabadi says. The look of Psychonauts 2 is just as abstract as its gameplay, featuring characters crafted from oblong shapes, inanimate objects, and emotional interpretations.
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In Psychonauts 2, series hero Raz works his way through the troubled minds of the game’s titular psychic task force, uncovering a mysterious threat to the organization’s headquarters, The Motherlobe. Gregg’s gameplay programming found her honing lots of wacky, context-specific mechanics.
“I would do level support, and they would need completely unique mechanics that existed only in that one level.” “Each level takes place in a character’s mind and is totally different,” Gregg says.
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The answers to those questions are a large part of why Psychonauts 2 has been winning so much praise since arriving on consoles and PC late-August, charming players with the same unpredictable appeal that made Double Fine’s original a platforming cult-classic.
“So I did the character sculpt and said, ‘OK, I think the lip guy would look like this in 3D. “I got one concept sketch of a character we needed who is just a pair of lips, but there wasn’t a turnaround,” says DigiPen graduate and Double Fine character artist Zahra Amirabadi. Things were just as surreal on the art end. “One week we’d be talking about, ‘How much puke is too much puke in this level before players get uncomfortable?’” says DigiPen graduate and Double Fine gameplay programmer Juli Gregg.Īmirabadi helped craft Tasty, one member of the game’s psychedelic band, Feast of the Senses. Studios often have to answer tough questions during game development, but the questions that needed answering on Psychonauts 2 were unusual by most standards. Information for Teachers and Counselors.
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