Nathan Stapley

Nathan Stapley
OccupationArtist

Nathan Stapley is an American artist. He was the lead artist on Double Fine's adventure game Broken Age and has worked on Psychonauts and Psychonauts 2.[1][2][3]

Career

Nathan Stapley started his career at LucasArts as an artist on Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine and Star Wars Episode I: Racer. He left LucasArts to work at LucasArts-alumnus Tim Schafer's studio, Double Fine Productions, as an artist.[4]

He created a comic while at Double Fine called My Comic About Me. This comic spawned a free Flash sports game parody called My Game About Me: Olympic Challenge, which was developed by Klint Honeychurch with art by Stapley.[5][6]

He was working on Broken Age in the role of lead artist and has also been an artist on Psychonauts and Psychonauts 2.[1][2][3] A poster created by Stapley was included as one of the reward tiers in the Broken Age Kickstarter campaign.[7]

Recognition

My Game About Me: Olympic Challenge received more attention than usual for a free online flash game.[5][6][8]

The Broken Age (working title Double Fine Adventure) Kickstarter campaign was the most successful Kickstarter project at the time, having attracted more backers than any prior effort in the site's history.[9]

Games

Year Title Role Developer
1999 Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine Artist LucasArts
Star Wars Episode I: Racer
2000 Escape from Monkey Island
2002 Star Wars: Bounty Hunter
2005 Psychonauts Double Fine
2008 My Game About Me: Olympic Challenge Lead artist
2009 Brütal Legend Artist
2010 Costume Quest
2013 Broken Age Lead artist
2021 Psychonauts 2 Artist

References

  1. ^ a b Dutton, Fred (February 24, 2012). "Double Fine Adventure will likely be "old school" 2D". Eurogamer. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
  2. ^ a b Landon, Robinson (February 25, 2012). "Double Fine Adventure Likely to be "Old School" 2D". Inside Gaming. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
  3. ^ a b Keyes, Rob. "Psychonauts 2 Is Finally Happening And in a Historic Way". Screen Rant. Retrieved January 13, 2016.
  4. ^ "Thrashing, mad, metal: the art of Double Fine's Brütal Legend". Boing Boing. Retrieved February 28, 2012.
  5. ^ a b "Double Fine drops new mini-game 'My Game About Me'". Joystiq. Retrieved February 28, 2012.
  6. ^ a b "Exciting mini-game from Double Fine". Eurogamer. Retrieved February 28, 2012.
  7. ^ Chalk, Andy (March 12, 2012). "Double Fine Kickstarter Ends Tomorrow". The Escapist. Retrieved April 15, 2012.
  8. ^ "Double Fine Action Arcade Soundtrack Contains All Your Flash Favorites". The International House of Mojo. Retrieved February 28, 2012.
  9. ^ Mudhar, Raju (February 9, 2012). "Game developer raises $700,000 in less than a day using crowd-funding site Kickstarter". Toronto Star. Retrieved February 9, 2012.