Double Fine founder Tim Schafer has shared that he want to create spin-offs for “big, serious IP” like Skyrim, within the model of The Simpsons‘ Treehouse Of Horror Halloween episodes.
Speaking to NME for his Boss Level profile, Schafer shared that he thinks video games at the moment have a “limited” scope, and needs the video games trade to broaden the viewers it caters to.
“When you go to a theatre, there’s a movie for your kids, your grandparents, and there’s a movie for everybody – romantic comedy, action, stuff like that. But the scope for games is still kind of limited in that way,” shared Schafer, who stated that there are “so many types of games to be made, that aren’t – and they’re games that would draw more people in, who don’t consider themselves gamers right now.”
“Where are the romantic comedies?” the founder requested, including that video games and TV have change into “so gritty and dark” in recent times. On that matter, Schafer – who stated he would “like to keep pushing the boundaries of what a game is” – revealed that he had his personal, lighter concept for a collection of video games.
“I always wanted to do a Treehouse Of Horror episode for some big, serious IP like Skyrim,” he stated, referencing The Simpsons‘ Halloween specials that tell zanier, self-contained stories that wouldn’t often match inside the collection’ common episodes.
In latest years, Treehouse Of Horror specials have parodied Parasite, Stephen King’s It, and Stranger Things.
Schafer additionally joked that he would “love” an Elden Ring comedy spin-off, and defined how a misunderstanding at LucasArts helped him to grasp that “sometimes the ideas that seem silly – the ones you want to hide from other people – are the ones that are the best.”
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