PRESENTATION ABOUT TIM SCHAFER

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ABOUT TIM SCHAFERTimothy John Schafer was born on July 26, 1967, and is an American video game designer. Initially he worked for Lucasarts, but after designing Monkey Island 1 and 2, Day Of The Tentacle, Full Throttle, and Grim Fandango, Tim decided to pursue his dream as a video game designer and found his own company, Double Fine Productions in July 2000. After designing Psychonauts and Brutal Legend, Tim and his games started becoming famous, and won awards such as Psychonaut’s game of the year, Game Developer’s Choice, Best original game and many more.

Tim Schafer

The Double Fine Logo

TIM SCHAFER IN COLLEGE AND LUCASARTSWhile studying computer science at UC Berkeley University, Tim Schafer started becoming interested in finding a job, and got hired by LucasArts in 1989, and his first job was to play-test a game called Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, until his fellow developers at LucasArts taught him how to use their engine, SCUMM, Tim started co-designing Monkey Island, his first game, which turned out so good he and his team made a sequel, Monkey Island 2. Since then, Tim had made a lot of appearances in LucasArts games and began work on many games, like Day Of The Tentacle, Full Throttle, and Grim Fandango . Today, he is 48 years old .

TIM SCHAFER FLOWCHART Tim Schafer works for Lucas arts, Learned

how to use the SCUMM engine, and started

work on Monkey Island

After Monkey Island’s success, Tim worked on multiple games,

Some of them including Monkey

Island 2 , Grim Fandango and Full

Throttle.

Disney buys LucasArts and most of it’s workers quit the job. Tim Schafer decided to pursue his dream of making

video games, founded Double Fine, and hired most

of the LucasArts former Employees.

Double fine became a success, making over 20

video games, and developing an awesome Double Fine community.

Brutal Legend voice actors shouting ‘’Double Fine’’

RECOGNITIONPsychoanuts was first reviwed E3 trade show of 2002, where It won the Game Critics Award for Best Original Game .

At the 2006 Game Developers Choice Awards, Tim Schafer and his partner, Erik Wolpaw won the award for Best Writing for Psychonauts. Double Fine also won the award for Best New Studio.In October 2006, Tim Schafer received a BAFTA(British Academy of Film and Television Arts)video game Best Screenplay award for Psychonauts.In 2012, Tim Schafer was featured as the creator of Grim Fandango, among a few other visionary designers, credited for having "pushed the boundaries of game design and storytelling, introducing new genres, creating our best-loved characters and revolutionising the way we understand and play games“

GAMEOGRAPHY *1987 Maniac Mansion )

*1990 The Secret of Monkey Island *1991 Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge

*1993 Day of the Tentacle *1995 Full Throttle

*1998 Grim Fandango *2005 Psychonauts , *2009 Brütal Legend

*2010 Costume Quest* *2011 Stacking

*2011Iron Brigade *2012 Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster

*2012 Middle Manager of Justice *2012 Kinect Party

* 2013 The Cave* 2013 Dropchord*2014 Broken Age

*2014 Spacebase DF2015 Massive Chalice *

TIM AS A LEADER & IN CONCLUSIONTim Schafer was one of the first people to design a third-person game, he changed the way we played video games, and taught us that they can be very artistic and full of emotions, storyline and meaning.He was a true leader and an influence to anyone who was and is interested in making and playing meaningful video games.In conclusion, I hope you check out Tim’s games and works, and enjoy them thoroughly!