Editing Double Fine (section)

{{short description|American video game developer}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Double Fine Productions, Inc.
| logo = Double Fine Logo.svg
| type = [[Subsidiary]]
| industry = [[Video game industry|Video games]]
| founded = {{Start date and age|2000|07}}
| founder = [[Tim Schafer]]
| hq_location_city = [[San Francisco]]
| hq_location_country = US
| key_people = Tim Schafer ([[President (corporate title)|president]] and [[Chief executive officer|CEO]])
| products = {{Hlist|''[[Psychonauts]]''|''[[Brütal Legend]]''|''[[Broken Age]]''|''[[Grim Fandango Remastered]]''}}
| num_employees = 65
| num_employees_year = 2015
| parent = [[Xbox Game Studios]] (2019–present)
| website = {{URL|https://www.doublefine.com/|doublefine.com}}
}}

'''Double Fine Productions, Inc.''' is an American [[video game developer]] based in [[San Francisco]], [[California]]. It is a [[first-party developer]] of [[Xbox Game Studios]]. Founded in July 2000 by [[Tim Schafer]] shortly after his departure from [[LucasArts]], Double Fine's first two games – ''[[Psychonauts]]'' and ''[[Brütal Legend]]'' – underperformed publishers' expectations despite critical praise. The future of the company was assured when Schafer turned to several in-house prototypes built during a two-week period known as "Amnesia Fortnight" to expand as smaller titles, all of which were licensed through publishers and met with commercial success. Schafer has since repeated these Amnesia Fortnights, using fan-voting mechanics, to help select and build [[indie game|smaller titles]]. Double Fine is also credited with driving interest in [[crowdfunding in video games]], having been able to raise more than {{US$|3&nbsp;million|link=yes}} for the development of ''[[Broken Age]]'', at the time one of the largest projects funded by [[Kickstarter]], and more than US$3 million for the development of ''[[Psychonauts 2]].''

The company continued to build on its independent developer status and has promoted efforts to help other, smaller independent developers through its clout, including becoming a [[video game publisher]] for these titles. Double Fine has also been able to acquire rights to remaster some of the earlier LucasArts adventure games, including ''[[Grim Fandango]]'', ''[[Day of the Tentacle]]'', and ''[[Full Throttle (1995 video game)|Full Throttle]]''. [[Microsoft]] purchased the studio in June 2019 after previously taking over ''Psychonauts 2''<nowiki/>'s publishing.