Tim Schafer is a video game designer, director and writer. Schafer spent over a decade at Lucasfilm Games, working his way up from tester to co-write classic point-and-click adventures such as The Secret of Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle, then lead, design and write critically-acclaimed titles including Full Throttle and Grim Fandango.
In 2000, Schafer founded Double Fine Productions - where he designed games including story-based 3D platformer Psychonauts and Metal-music-based open-world title Brutal Legend. Generally, Double Fine's games have moved away from the adventure genre (which many publishers felt was dead), but have maintained the classic adventure approach to story.
In 2012, Double Fine Productions ran a Kickstarter campaign to crowd-fund a return to the pure adventure genre, the result of which is Broken Age.
