{"id":281,"date":"2009-05-26T13:13:04","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T20:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jellopolis.com\/wordpress\/?p=281"},"modified":"2009-06-01T19:41:28","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T02:41:28","slug":"mgs-psychonauts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/corey.jellopolis.com\/?p=281","title":{"rendered":"MGS – Psychonauts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Psychonauts_Moneyshot\"<\/p>\n

dude, what’s with her hair?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

While Majesco delivered Psychonauts to retail it was Microsoft who initially invested in Tim Schafer’s startup venture, DoubleFine. I was involved with the project on the publishing side from the due diligence phase through almost 2 years of production. During that time the routine of evaluating assets and verifying production against a schedule accounted for much of my time. But my most significant contribution to the project was defending Scott Campbell’s and Tim Schafer’s vision. I worked tirelessly to gather as much supporting material as possible to prove the marketability of their highly stylized characters and environments.
\n\"Psychonauts_Raz\"
\nI was also involved in focus group testing and, subsequently, the revised character design direction that transformed the initial hero D’Artagnan Alsjeblieft, aka ‘Dart’ , into “Raz”. It was during a focus test in San Francisco that one of the participants uttered, “Dude, what’s with her hair?” that we knew Dart was a difficult read in-game. Clearly, the redesign was an effort shouldered principally by Scott Campbell and the talented artists at DoubleFine. But I was heavilly involved in structuring the revised creative brief, being a strong advocate for a spy-like hero and encouraging the addition of his trademark goggles.
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\n\"Psychonauts_CD\"
\nLastly, I helped out with marketing materials so that the heavily burdened production team could stay focused on the important stuff. I even created a custom CD label for their E3 press kit, just because I cared ;^)
\n<\/br>
\nI’m including shots of Raz as well as Dart so you can see the changes. The image at top features Dart in the original “money shot”, a term I co-opted to mean visual prototype, for the project.
\n<\/br>
\n<\/br>
\nrelease date: 2005<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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