Double Fine @doublefine.com · 16d 19144 likes 482 replies
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I hope you get to be triple fine after all of this
Godspeed y’all
Oh thank fucking god
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So very glad to hear you will continue on! Can’t wait to see what is next from you!!
You guys went from making several games a year, to only two games and one sequel during your time at Microsoft. You did Psychonauts 2, which was crowdfunded long before MS got involved, and then nothing until last October. Glad they didn't Ensemble Studios you. Finally unshackled, free at last.
I'm just glad you're still a band!
Psychonauts is a fundamentally important piece of art to me. I'm really glad the folks at the DF studio get to keep making games 😁
So.. i guess you'll now need to rely on kickstarter and what not for future game fundings, like just for a thought, Psychonauts 3?
So…Brütal Legend 2 then? 👀
I can't wait for the next DoubeFine documentary. It's going to be a must watch.
This is great news!
Honestly really hope things work out for ya. Always enjoy seeing the creativity you put into your games! All the love for you and your team!
Glad to hear it and promise to keep supporting yall
Double Fine forever!
Really happy you all aren’t being shut down. If you put out Psychnauts 1 and 2 physically on Switch 2, I’ll double dip.
Brütal Legend 2 coming? 👀
Good!!
One of my treasured photos
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Triple Fine :)
We love you, Double Fine! 😁
I very much look forward to giving you guys my money for what I hope will be an eventual Brutal Legend 2.
Doublefine being cool as shit as always.
Congrats on becoming independent again.
Tough times ahead but glad the studio has managed to keep its identity intact and walk away from MS with your catalogue intact. Well done, and good luck!
Wishing you all every success.
I’m so happy for you guys! 🫂
Honestly, probably the best case scenario given the options. I'm glad you will continue to exist!
I wish you luck in this new chapter and I really hope you bring Keeper to PS5!
LOOKS LIKE COSTUME QUEST 3 IS BACK ON THE MENU BOYS
Love you, Double Fine!! 🫶 I will always support you and can’t wait to see what you do next!!! 💛🧡
Love you forever Double Fine 💖💖💖!!!!!!!
you could have just written an email to the intended recipients
Genuine question, if you can answer, but will revenue from previous Double Fine games go directly to you now, and if so, how soon until those sales only benefit you and not also MS? I have not purchased Keeper or Kiln yet but I absolutely will right away if it goes entirely to helping fund you.
glad you got outta there alive
Amazing!
Very glad you are still with us! And realize how scary it must be… but you have a wonderful fan-base, and I’m sure they’re gonna be there for you when you are ready to roll something new out.
All of your games day one forever <3
Glad to hear it
FUCK YES!!!!! this is incredible news!!!!! i love you guys so much!
I am so thankful you've survived and broken free. I look forward to giving you continued support, I love the games you make!
Onward to better things!
Rooting for you guys! Hopefully this means we’ll see some of your masterpieces on other consoles! Would love to support you guys on Switch 2
Phew
It is fantastic that your studio was able to save jobs of talented devs by splitting from Microslop. I wish your team the best.
Awesome to hear you people are still keeping your jobs! ;)
So glad you're sticking around and retaining all your IP ownership. DF is an institution of gaming. Keep fighting on! 💪🏾
I'm so glad to hear you're all still with us!
Happy to hear the studio will be able to move forward. Will do my best to support where I can!
Wait what I miss
That’s great news! So happy you guys will still be creating unique games. And that’s what this industry needs.
Woo!
Keep it weird and wild 😎💖🎮
I wish you all the success in the world!
I am ready to take over time when you are ready to step down.
probably a good thing tbh.
Terrible day, but glad to see the studio regain independence. Have always been a massive fan, and happy today I will continue to be for the future. All the best to the amazing talents at DF; Can't wait to see what fun projects you release.
so so so happy for you guys
We love you DoubleFine!!
Great news - good luck to all 👍😁
DOUBLE FINE FOREVER
Hope to see you mad lads on the Switch 2...
Congrats!
Wish you the best!!!!!
Love you Double Fine. Will always support and look forward to what your amazing group produces next.
Such a relief! I was gonna be so mad if they didn't let one of my all time favorite studios return to indie. Love you all at DF and looking forward to whatever you create next <3
I will support Double Fine until the end of time (hopefully not soon)
I hope y'all were filming during all this drama. Because, I'm gonna need the doc. 😭♥️
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At least some good news
Phew, I was hoping this would be possible at least.
Let's fucking GOOOOOOOOOO My GOAT lives another day
Good luck going forward!!
I do hope you make Psychonauts 3 though
So glad you're not being shut down! Best of luck to all of you!
Thank you for all your great games that you delivered. We believe in you! 🙏
thank you all for always being a beacon of creativity
I'm so glad at this news. I just hope Arkane will also be OK. Godspeed everyone
Can I hope for a Brütal Legend 2? 🥹
@timoflegend.bsky.social rooting for you, as always.
Hopefully this is good for you guys in the long run, though obviously you made the jump to Microsoft ownershop for a reason. Ready a confusingly worded sentance on the IGN article about ownership of the Psychonauts IP... do you guys still own it?
Love you guys and wishing you only success. Will always support you.
Massive sigh of relief! I am so glad to see this news - and hope to see these lovely worlds & characters again (Twig needs her own game, Psychonauts 3, must see everybody in there obv, and the next transformational building adventure should go to deep space, or play with scale in ridiculous ways).
Good to see nothing gets closed. I wish you luck with your way forward but also holy shit please don't work 5 years on 2 hour games no matter how good Keeper is to me. You have a too long history to just fizzle out.
Wishing you the best!!! ❤️
Good luck Double Fine! 🍀🩷 You've created some amazing memories and hope to see more from you!
I was really hoping for this outcome, glad to hear it!
You know I will be there to support wherever yall head next! Best of luck, and I'll have my eyes on the next games as usual! Hope Kiln won't be too affected by this! Much love and respect, Tim and Double Finers! ❤️
I'm so fucking happy for you, looking forward to seeing what's your next masterpiece
🫡 wishing you continued success
I feel like you lot have been endlessly tortured by the fact the games market exists I'm so glad you've stuck it through so far, one of the few studios that im proud to have orbit my life, a ton of your games helped me grapple with so much as a kid i hope it all goes well for yall
I'm sorry, but also in a way, congratulations.
I'm so relieved. Really happy for you all!
Wishing you all the best
So friggin happy to hear this 😮💨🥳🙌🏻🙏🏻🫶🏻 ps - everyone please go buy Psychonauts 1 and 2, costume quest 1 and 2, brutal legend, kiln and any others you want in celebration 💪🏻
I was worried this weekend knowing that the Microsoft news would be today. So happy that Double Fine wasn't closed and you're going independent again. You'll always have my support, love all your games! <3
good luck to whatever is in front of you! ❤️
We love you all.
Good luck, gang! Here's to making more great indies.
Woohoo!!!! Excellent news :)
Oh thank goodness. I was worried I wouldn’t get Psychonauts 3.
@timoflegend.bsky.social @doublefine.com Is DoubleFine independent effective today? Or is there still negotiating that has to happen? I want to buy Keeper and Kiln the SECOND it goes to indie DF!
Love me some Double Fine!
While these are still uncertain times I'm so glad you guys made it out unscathed 💛
Love you folks 🫂
If Sync.com has shown me anything, it's that you can indeed do it on your own. Screw the big guys.
So happy to hear you folks get to go indie rather than being shut down! Now, Brütal Legend 2?
Update and re-release the super hero management game, please.
Glad your free instead of shuttered... probably the only good news out of all of this.
immensely glad you guys weren't taken out back like most studios these days
I played psychonaughts 1 as a kid and played the second as an adult you guys will forever be part of my life no matter what
I'm so glad for you, and us! 🤗
So glad that you're fine. Double fine
Good news in a sea of bad. Hope the transition is as smooth as possible. Would love an eventual XBOdyssey @2playerproductions.bsky.social 😅.
<3 excited and supportive of the next moves the team makes over the coming months.
Getting out AND with your IPs? Miraculous work.
So if someone were to buy a bunch of your games on Steam today, do you get all the money, or is it still going to Microsoft until Date X?
Heck yeah! Looking forward to all the cool, weird stuff you've got in store!!! (Also perhaps you got to retain the Iron Brigade IP?)
You will come out of this stronger. Can’t wait to see what’s next from you all!
It will be tough no doubt I do believe in you guys!
❤️ you all.
This is great news among sad Xbox news, but so happy to see you guys live on!
Psychonauts 2 was worth the wait and I believe in the company no matter sponsored or independent. You guys are amazing.
Well, that was a stressfully-silent couple of weeks!! When you fellas didn't promote Kiln's recent update on the socials I feared a more-somber statement was being prepared! >_< ...So, what now? Might I suggest holding a paper-football tournament in the office...? Could lighten the mood a bit! =)
as of which date? I'm waiting to buy some games until the money goes to double-fine instead of Microsoft
This is great to hear. ❤️
FUCK YEAH FREEDOM
Thank lady Godiva for this one
Thank god 🙏
Glad Double Fine made it through, I wish the team luck & success!
That's what I call a double fine
Fantastic news, glad you made it out of the burning building. Please bring Keeper to the PS5.
This is the best possible outcome I could have hoped for.
Question: does buying your already released games right now support DF or XBOX?
Very happy you guys and some others are ok
Stay strong over there, you have the support of a lot of people.
🤘
Im glad that you'll be able to continue making your typical brand of weird creative games
It’s wonderful news that you’re moving forward independently! I’ve been supporting you since the launch of Psychonauts 1 on the OG Xbox, and have now gone on to purchase it on multiple platforms. Recently purchased Keeper, and Psychonauts 2, and really looking forward to playing those soon!
We'll be with you guys at the trenches again
Well done all! Glad that you escaped such a complete shambles and I wish you all well for the future. 🥳
So thrilled to hear you will persist despite the difficult news. The Psychonauts series in particular is very special to me
Everything old can be new again! And we will buy it. Perhaps a collab with the newly revived Commodore 64? I know many artists who would love to put in sweat equity to help keep you afloat even as an animation service studio. Oooor “Release the dio cut!” of brutal legend on ps5? Would!
Absolutely for the best that you guys were indie. Wishing you all the best.
Delighted to hear this. I hope the team are well and mostly in tact. I imagine it’s been a rough few weeks. Double Fine forever 🫶
Maybe a new Kickstarter? <3 It was quite a ride last time, but i am up to it again! Adventures are not dead ;)
My favorite studio who made some of my favorite games. I'm happy to hear that things seem to be working out, and please never leave me. :D
Hell yeah, best case scenario
YOOOO CONGRATS! You guys deserve it! Now....Brutal Legend 2 when? xD
Hell yeah
I hope everything works out!!!! THINGS WILL GET BETTER
So happy to hear this! Now to celebrate, how about a Costume Quest 3!
This is amazing news! I can’t wait to see what’s in store for DF!
Glad you guys aren't getting shut down. Excited to see what you make next o7
The two-headed baby lives on!
Good. We'll eventually be able to buy your games without feeding the beast Microsoft
Godspeed and continue making amazing games. You rocks guys! 🤘
always rooting for y'all!! can't wait to see what's next!!!
I bet this felt like Christmas for all the OG employees who had to go through the process of being acquired by an enormous corporation. The exact opposite feeling to the seeking hopelessness that comes when a huge company starts enshitifying the small unique company you’ve come to love.
Welp, only one thing to be done. Finish Full Throttle 2 and get it out to the masses!
🍀 ♥️
Port some psychonauts to celebrate
Good luck and what is the best way to support you at this time?
LETS FUCKING GOOO
Hope you find success in this independence.
I'm happy that y'all will continue as an independent. The road will be tough, but here's to more Double Fine games.
A little bit of hope from this whole hellscape of a day. Congrats for you guys, love you'all to death!
Microsoft sucks
Y'all are some of the best we got, appreciate you so much. Good luck!
Cheering y’all on, always!
Welcome back to the indie scene! <3 If I purchase a game like Psychonauts 2 right now would the money go to you guys or will MS be gobbling it up? (I dunno if they keep the money from releasing the game, this stuff can be quite confusing). I wanna support you guys first and foremost :)
So glad y'all are surviving. If you can manage to make Mac versions of your games, I will happily buy _everything_ y'all release.
Glad to know y'all will still be around! Going indie seems like the right move, and I'll be there to support your future endeavors all the way 😊
oh man, what a tremendous relief! congrats and thank you!
What’s the best way to support the studio right now?
I don't know if you get the rights to RAD or if Bandai Namco has control of them, but if possible please create an ESRB PS4 physical copy of the game before January 2028. I know you've worked with @iam8bit.com for your games before. I'd buy it.
so so happy to hear ❤️❤️❤️
Happy to hear Your team was always my first thought when worries of these recent lay-offs were rumored. Glad to see you all still together
Phew... that's good news at least
hi y'all! i've been trying to reach out to you via your pr email but haven't heard anything back. i'm a local reporter hoping to speak to you guys about this - please let me know if that might be possible. many thanks!
HALLELUJAH THANK GOD!!! YOU'VE BROKEN FREE!!! I was concerned we would get another Tango Gameworks on our hands.
thank god you guys didn’t shut down I think I would’ve cried if you did
Just wishing you all the best going forward.
I got on my hands and knees when I heard all y’all were on the chopping block. So so so glad you’re all gonna be okay. Here’s to many more years of the finest indie game company out there 💖
Congrats on making it out alive. Can't wait to see what else y'all cook up!
wait its already been 7 years? damn time flies.
I love u double fine i will follow u anywhere double fine
They dressed it
Hope you guys the best of luck. Looking fwd for your next games ❤️
If I buy any of your games right now, the money goes entirely to you guys? 👀 I want to properly commemorate the independence of the GOATs 🎉 Best of luck in the studio next chapters!
That's it, next time I'm buying them!
I’m so happy you guys are indie again and have ownership of your games!! Congratulations!! 🥹