For three days in May the Gramercy Theater will host an eccentric mix of chip pioneers new and old. If you're wondering what all the fuss is about, we put together a little anniversary video.
Just another day at 2PP // Photo for PA Report by Dabe Alan
Ben Kuchera interviewed us about our contribution to the Double Fine Adventure project for a editorial over on the PA Report. We love the direction of the site and what it’s doing for the concept of industry news, and it’s an honor to be there alongside people like Gabe Newell and David Jaffe. Check out the interview below, and if you’ve never been to the Report before be sure to hang out for a while and soak everything in.
Jak and Daxter return, as crisp and sharp as our memories.
We’ve had the honor of putting together a 18 minute documentary piece on Sony’s HD re-release of the Jak and Daxter trilogy. It’s always a treat to go back to Naughty Dog and talk to the people there, and this time around the studio was visited by the founders Andy Gavin and Jason Rubin. Andy and Jason look back at their time with Naughty Dog and how far the company has come since they departed, all while playing Jak HD in the studios screening room. Neither had played the game since it’s original release 10 years ago, and seeing it now in HD brought back some powerful memories.
By now there is a good chance you have heard about the Double Fine Adventure. It’s the biggest story in the gaming press so far this year, plastered across major news sites and personal blogs around the whole web. But it’s not just gaming news, it’s real news. TV stations are talking about this. The financial sector is looking at what has happened. Literally overnight, what seemed like a modest pitch for a 400k project exploded into a multimillion dollar statement about the modern games industry. There is the way that things have always been done, but now there is an ever growing list of new alternatives.
We're proud to announce that we've partnered with industry legend Tim Schafer and Double Fine Productions for our most ambitious project to date. "The Double Fine Adventure" is a Kickstarter campaign to raise funding for Double Fine to create a new adventure game while we document the entire process from beginning to end. To the best of our knowledge this is something that has never been done before.
Back in the early days of 2 Player Productions (circa 2007), our bread and butter was producing videos from live chip music performances. We probably made about a hundred of them, with a good portion collected on the Blip Festival 2006 and 2007 dvd releases. We don't have the time to work with the chip scene like we use to since we moved away from the east coast and took on other projects, but we're still trying to keep the spirit alive by hosting our own bi-monthly chip shows here in Portland.
This month we're featuring two pillars of the Philly chip scene, Animal Style and Cheap Dinosaurs, who will be supported by Oregon native Dakota Clark. Just In case you missed our previous show, we now have some videos up for Bud Melvin and Covox.
PC Gamer contacted us not long ago interested in some footage to feature in the latest edition of their digital magazine. We put together a little teaser along with a sequence of Notch coding at his work station. We think it's facinating to watch Notch work, we hope you enjoy this little bit of insight into the creative process!
