Double Fine’s Tim Schafer, has stated before that he would love to make Psychonauts 2 in the past, he has pitched it to publishers a few times, but no one has ponied up for the project, and Schafer still needs a few million dollars to back it up.
Enter: Notch, creator of Minecraft and resident indie millionaire.
After learning of Schafer’s problem, Markus “Notch” Persson, tweeted at Schafer “Let’s make Psychonauts 2 happen,” followed by “;D Also, I’m serious.” Yesterday afternoon, the official word from Double Fine is “Tim and Markus are talking. Who knows what might happen?”
Notch has followed up candidly, tweeting that he and Schafer are talking via email, hinting that they may talk more at GDC, and finishing with a warning: “Anyway, please don’t get your hopes too high yet. Everything is extremely vague!”
There it is. The potential multi-million-dollar business deal to create Psychonauts 2, started on Twitter and including a winky, open-mouthed-smiling emoticon. Ah, technology.