The crowdfunding campaign to fund the development of Psychonauts 2 hit its $3.3 million goal, developer Double Fine Productions announced Wednesday.-First announced last month-at-The Game Awards 2015, the sequel to the cult classic has raised $3.965 million as of Thursday, January 7. Though Double Fine helped-popularize Kickstarter and the current donation-based crowdfunding-with its record-breaking campaign to make a new “Double Fine Adventure” game, which would eventually become the first part of Broken Age, the developer will combine seed money-from crowd-investment platform Fig with private-funding from an unnamed financial partner and-some of its own cash to create its budget. The company has already-gathered the-money needed to fund-the game, but Double Fine will continue to take individual investments through Fig until the campaign ends on January 12. “Every dollar we make goes into making the game better,”-Double Fine founder Tim Schafer said in a video thanking campaign backers, “giving us more time to polish and make the game great. Because we don’t just want to make Psychonauts 2, -we want to make an amazing, amazing Psychonauts 2 .” Related: Hands-On: HTC Vive-Pre In Psychonauts 2 , players will once again control Razputin — Raz, for short — who, having completed his training, goes to Psychonauts Headquarters. Based on the vague description of the plot, Raz will have to jump into the minds of his-fellow-Psychonauts to help them get over their psychological hangups and “uncover evil plots.” Double Fine also announced in December that the studio would be making virtual reality spin-off,- Psychonauts in the Rhombus of Ruin,- for PlayStation VR. According to Sony, Rhombus of Ruin will take place between Psychonauts and Psychonauts 2 . Though there’s no way to really know at this point, Double Fine Productions expects to launch- Psychonauts 2 -on-PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Windows, Mac and Linux in Fall, 2018.



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