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Stacking: "Farts and Chopin"

Double Fine's Lee Petty and Tim Schafer.

Eurogamer Do you have particular favourite gags in there? Does anything particular tickle you?
Lee Petty

I know what Tim's favourite joke is.

Tim Schafer

Which is my favourite joke?

Lee Petty

I don't know what your favourite joke is. The thing I enjoy most about the humour is that there's a lot of dark humour and comedy in there, but I really enjoy the mix of high and low brow humour. I think having fart jokes in there is great... with Chopin.

These sorts of things I just love. It's not taking itself too seriously, but it's pulling on things in a post-modern way from all these different sources and mashing them up.

Tim Schafer

I'm sorry we weren't able to use that title for the game – Farts and Chopin.

Eurogamer On that note, when we do features on Eurogamer we usually have a strapline on the frontpage – a little witty or informative nugget – and I was wondering if you guys could help me come up with something for this interview.
Tim Schafer

Inside Tim & Lee.

Eurogamer I don't want people NOT to read it.
Lee Petty

So nothing about taking from behind. Hmm. Tim Is The Stack King.

Tim Schafer

Oh god.

Lee Petty

It's a pun! Tim loves puns! It's the only way to get anything approved at Double Fine.

Eurogamer Maybe we can revisit that one... So I was looking at your Wikipedia page earlier and it says "not to be confused with Tim Schaffer". Does that happen a lot?
Tim Schafer

There's a Tim Schafer who's a famous chef, and there's a Tim Schafer who's a footballer who gets in drunken fights a lot...

Lee Petty

Tim is basically a combination of those two personalities.

Tim Schafer

Who's Tim Schaffer?

Eurogamer He's a Republican from Ohio, apparently.
Tim Schafer

That actually is me! The games don't take up that much time these days, so I'm trying to run some districts in Ohio.

Lee Petty

Slush-funding the Tea Party.

Tim Schafer

Lee Petty's much more popular because he's a famous NASCAR driver.

Eurogamer How many games have you got in development at Double Fine now?
Tim Schafer

We kicked this off doing four at once, with four teams, so there's two more... Some of them are still working on, ah, secret stuff.

Eurogamer Has the Costume Quest team circled back and started on something new?
Tim Schafer

They are... working. [Long pause.]

Eurogamer He nodded.
Tim Schafer

[Protesting] I said they're working!

Eurogamer Yeah yeah yeah, I saw you nod.

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