Amnesia Fortnight is back in movie form
[Update: Double Fine and 2 Player Productions releasedThe Amnesia Fortnight Movieon YouTube.]
I love a good Double Fine behind-the-scenes video, and so far, they’veallbeengood! Over the years, 2 Player Productions’ documentaries, in particular, have been entertaining and insightful looks into how multiple disciplines can come together to imagine a video game and then somehow make it real.
One of the recurring themes is a two-week internal game jam calledAmnesia Fortnight, although admittedly, it’s been a while; the last event, in 2017, led to prototypes likeKiln, a pottery game where you sculpt makeshift armor, andThe Gods Must Be Hungry, a cooking adventure with giant ingredients.
The goal of Amnesia Fortnight is to give staff a chance to pitch something wild and refuel their creative energy for longer-term and far more consequential projects. For us at home, it’s fun to watch along. I rarely play the four winning entries that make it through the game-jam gauntlet, but Ialwaystune in.
In 2019, during the making ofPsychonauts 2, Double Fine hosted another Amnesia Fortnight. The whole process was captured as a full-length documentary —The Amnesia Fortnight Movie— and it’ll debut on YouTube on June 28, 2025. You can even just come back to this exact spot for the premiere:
Apart from thetrailer up top, there’s also a hint fromXbox Wireabout the featured games, all of which sound conceptually on-brand for a studio like Double Fine: “madcap puppet theater, devious journeys into the underworld, a sinister puzzle game, and grand battles on the back of giant slugs.”
The key sound bite? “You take a little bit of terror every day, it’s like poison: you get immune to it.”
