Double Fine Productions has published a new blog post dedicated to an important milestone that Psychonauts 2 has reached. The developers call it “first playable” and it is an area of the game that the team has built to test out workflow and pipelines across all departments – art, tech, design, etc. While thoroughly tested in the pre-production phase, this is the first big attempt to create a fully playable chunk of gameplay with all the systems working in the same place.
This doesn’t mean that we now have a final area made to shippable quality, there’s still a lot of work to be done. It does, however, represent a fully playable area that has all the things a level of the game should have: elements like player movement, combat, quests, experience, UI all working together with scratch dialogue and audio, some rough visual effects, textures, lighting, even a cut-scene. This means we can iterating on these systems so they can be as good as possible for the final game.
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