MinnMax Interview - Meet The Team Behind Double Fine PsychOdyssey (Patreon)

If you've listened to The MinnMax Show recently, you know that Ben Hanson is consumed by the new documentary showing the development of Psychonauts 2 called Double Fine PsychOdyssey. So we're officially kicking off The Celebration Of Double Fine PsychOdyssey here at MinnMax with a week of content highlighting the documentary. We have a game industry roundtable discussion coming up on Tuesday and a Max Spoilers happening on Friday!

MinnMax's Ben Hanson interviews Paul Owens, Paul Levering, and Asif Siddiky from 2 Player Productions. They're the film crew embedded at Double Fine who created the Double Fine Adventure documentary and the new 32-part series Double Fine PyschOdyssey. We talk about the logistics of how they filmed for 7 years and managed to edit over 5,000 hours of footage into a riveting documentary showcasing game development in a way nobody has before. We also talk about the limits of the documentary and working with Tim Schafer and Zak McClendon. This interview contains vague spoilers about the development of Psychonauts 2, if you don't want to know anything about the production before watching the documentary.

You can watch and share the video version of this interview here - https://youtu.be/sft8nDjunK4

Here's a link to the first episode of PsychOdyssey  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKoy_KMVIyU

To jump to a particular discussion, check out the timestamps below...   

00:00:00 - Intro 

00:01:44 - Congratulations and feedback on the documentary 

00:14:40 - How they edited over 5,000 hours of footage 

00:18:47 - Is 2 Player Productions owned by Double Fine? 

00:21:12 - What Tim Schafer did and didn’t let them film 

00:24:22 - Developers attitudes on being filmed 

00:30:57 - How they depicted and interacted with Zak 

00:36:19 - The overriding theme of the documentary 

00:41:20 - Foreshadowing the acquisition 

00:46:25 - The funniest moments and people 

00:50:47 - How Asif became a level designer 

00:55:59 - Little magic moments in the documentary 

00:57:53 - Will there ever be another episode? 

00:59:50 - Transparency with budgets and money 

01:01:17 - Will a documentary like this ever happen again? 

01:03:12 - Ben Hanson’s 2PP fan letter from 2010

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