Tim Schafer Hilariously Demos A 3D Adventure Game That You'll Never Get to Play
Published: January 01, 0001 | Author: A.I. Nexus | Category: Financial Strategy
Tim Schafer’s the three-million-dollar man, thanks to a record-breaking Kickstarter his Double Fine development studio launched to fund a new adventure game. While work should be starting soon on that crowd-funded creation, the respected designer showed off a project that probably won’t ever 
happen at a lecture last night at New York University’s Game Center.
Using an Xbox 360 development unit, Schafer demoed two prototypes of a project called Specs built to take advantage 
of the Kinect motion-sensing camera. The main goal of the game was to give players a way to solve puzzles by using gestures to make characters y1 com games react emotionally to elements in the environment.
Specs was to tell the story of a cursed, sentient artifact, which was the persona that controller that gets passed on from character to character. In the video above, you’ll see an early prototype where only the emotions of love and hate were implemented followed by a later one where gestural input makes more emotional prompts available. By the time second prototype was being worked Y1 COM on, Schafer and the Double Fine knew that they wanted Specs to be played through 
multiple times with a variety of endings available. The whole demo also serves a showcase for Schafer’s trademark humor, as well as giving insight as to Y1 Games how game design really happens.