2026-08-23 · designer-study
Inside Tim Schafer's Philosophy — Make Being Stuck the Fun Part
A study of Tim Schafer, built only from his own interviews and the design document he published himself. He calls the point of an adventure game "happy confusion" and says you have to make the stuckedness entertaining. The same man graded his own Grim Fandango puzzles as "mean, even" ten years later, and twenty years later shipped an invincibility toggle. Laying two decades of his statements side by side to find what he is actually protecting.
