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Is Raz going to have all of his previous powers and will we see any new powers? Also, will we ever see an older Raz?

So excited! Congrats on the successful funding. Everyone said there would never be a sequel and this shows that cult classic games like psychonauts does have a chance to carry on.

I'm creating an indie game with my siblings and can possibly answer some of these questions. On the art side of development it takes a LOT of conceptualizing and planning. Sometimes as you see things fit together you realize something is missing or perhaps it needs to be reworked. Art is the aspect you really can't rush. Sometimes you think 'Oh this is such a cool idea to implement' and you don't expect it will take long, but often it takes much longer than you'd imagine.

In game making you're having to create NEW puzzles and often treading new territory. It's said that for triple A games they cut about 5x the amount of art you end up seeing in the actual product. Games that DON'T cut out this content or make changes often end up...well, mediocre.

Then you have the beast of actual programming. Most people use the unreal engine today because they've spent years perfecting it, there's no need to reinvent the wheel, but if you're making your own game engine tack on months upon months of programming work. Then there's about ten thousand ways the coding can go south and can take weeks to find the error.

Often people are spending 14+ hours to meet deadlines and still end up pushing back those goals because a team of artists really want their game to come out with quality. The salary of an artist in the industry is typically 60k-120k plus benefits. While 3 million seems like a lot of money to a consumer, in business terms 3 million is peanuts. A game roughly takes from 2-5 years to complete. Lets say you have a team of 30 workers making a game for 2 years and they each make 60 k. That comes out to 3.6 million just towards salary pay not including benefits. You also need to turn over a profit to actually consider your game a success.

Hi Seth! Are we going to have a more in depth look at the cultures of aliens on the crew? Loving the optimistic tone of the show.