Tim Schafer stated that Ben's last name is " Throttle " but it wasn't included in the game because of fears of a legal action by the producers of Biker Mice from Mars, which featured a character by the name of Throttle.

Grim Fandango is a dark comedy neo-noir Windows adventure game released by LucasArts in 1998, primarily written by Tim Schafer.

* Ariadne is a principal character in the monumental series of music dramas conceived by the Canadian composer and writer R. Murray Schafer, in his " Patria Cycle ", including " The Princess of the Stars ," " Requiems for the Party Girl "

Vilsack has governed a largely agricultural state as did the previous two Secretaries of Agriculture, Mike Johanns ( who is currently the junior United States Senator from Nebraska ) ( 2005 – 2007 ) and Ed Schafer ( 2007 – 2009 ).

The Tom Bowl is a fan-supported college football bowl game scheduled to be played annually at Frank A. Schafer Field located at Beal City High School.

Schafer concluded: " The Classic's value is more impressive than its performance, but its performance will get you working on that novel, database, or spreadsheet.

What made the rare occurrence even more unusual is that the ball first bounced off Schafer ’ s glove and head before landing in his glove for the first out.

Timothy Schafer ( born July 26, 1967 ) is an American computer game designer.

Monkey Island is noted for its humorous story, though it was originally conceived as having a more serious tone ; Schafer and Grossman wrote much more humorous placeholder dialog, which persuaded Gilbert to turn it into a comedy.

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His first wife, Pam, is the sister of former U. S. Secretary of Agriculture and former North Dakota Governor Ed Schafer .< ref >

Double Fine Productions is an American video game developer founded in July 2000 by Tim Schafer after his departure from LucasArts.

A fourth game, Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster, is to be published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in association with the Sesame Workshop for the Xbox 360 using the Kinect controller ; though initially not a licensed title, Schafer and his team found it to be an ideal fit for their first licensed-property game.

The most recent of these, Host Master and the Conquest of Humor, is a pastiche of Schafer's LucasArts games, and features Schafer himself as the protagonist.

He is currently working at Double Fine Productions, with former LucasArts writer / programmer / designer Tim Schafer.

Schafer appeared in many films, usually portraying beautiful sophisticates, but she is best known for the situation comedy Gilligan's Island, playing the role of the millionaire's wife, Eunice " Lovey " Wentworth Howell.

The band's current lineup is: Brian Pastoria, ( drums ); Bruce Schafer, ( bass ); James Romeo, ( saxophone ); Mark Pastoria, ( keyboards ); Michael Haggerty, ( guitar ); Michael Romeo, ( guitar ).

Ronald W. Schafer ( born February 17, 1938 in Tecumseh, Nebraska ) is an electrical engineer notable for his contributions to digital signal processing.

His wife, Lovey, portrayed by Natalie Schafer, is conscious of social strata, yet seems to be a good-hearted woman with a deep sense of noblesse oblige allowing her to interact with the other passengers and crew, though they are all her social inferiors.

A recent investigation of the rock by David K. Schafer, Curatorial Assistant for Archaeology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, concluded that except for the " sword handle ", which is definitely a punch carving, the entire feature consists of naturally-formed scratches caused by glaciation.

He is best known for his collections of " bloopers "— the word Schafer coined for mistakes and gaffes of radio and TV announcers and personalities.

Schafer is historically remembered for an unwitting libel he committed by dramatizing an incident that never happened.

Bierbauer is married to Susanne Schafer, formerly the Pentagon correspondent for the Associated Press.

The Harold Schafer Leadership Center is home to an optional business leadership program that the University offers.

Schafer and his team selected the best four, and began shopping the games to various publishers, and successfully worked publishing details with these.

Natalie Schafer ( November 5, 1900-April 10, 1991 ) was an American actress, best known as Eunice " Lovey " Wentworth Howell on CBS's sitcom Gilligan's Island ( 1964 – 67 ).

Her best friend, Mary Anne Spier, along with Mary Anne's stepsister Dawn Schafer, offer their parents ' backyard to serve as the camp site.

* Natalie Schafer ( 1900 – 91 ), actress known as Mrs. Thurston Howell III on the classic 1960s TV series, Gilligan's Island.

Coincidentally, Schafer had 1 year earlier replaced Meatloaf, as the new lead singer in the newly named Grand Band, which had been previously been known as the ' Popcorn Blizzard '.

Several current or former members of its faculty are well known within psychoanalysis and psychiatry, including Fredric Busch, Susan Coates, Arnold Cooper, Norman Doidge, Robert Glick, Richard Isay, Otto Kernberg, Roger MacKinnon, Robert Michels, Robert Pollack, Sandor Rado, Roy Schafer, Daniel Schechter, Theodore Shapiro, Robert Spitzer, and Daniel Stern.

* 1967 – Tim Schafer, American computer game designer, founded Double Fine Productions

The project was led by Day of the Tentacle creator Tim Schafer, who was also its writer and designer.

From left: Rod Humble, Louis Castle, David Perry ( game developer ) | David Perry, Brenda Brathwaite, John Romero, Will Wright ( game designer ) | Will Wright, Tim Schafer, Chris Hecker.

From left: Rod Humble, Louis Castle, David Perry ( game developer ) | David Perry, Brenda Brathwaite, John Romero, Will Wright ( game designer ) | Will Wright, Tim Schafer, Chris Hecker. In his first lead role on a game project, Schafer co-designed ( with Dave Grossman ) Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle, a time-travel comedy adventure and the sequel of Ron Gilbert's Maniac Mansion.

In September 2010, it was revealed that Gilbert had been hired by fellow former LucasArts game designer Tim Schafer, to work at Schafer's own Double Fine Productions.

From left: Rod Humble, Louis Castle, David Perry, Brenda Brathwaite, John Romero, Will Wright ( game designer ) | Will Wright, Tim Schafer, Chris Hecker.

* June – Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle is released by Lucasarts as a sequel to Maniac Mansion and is notable for being one of the acclaimed early titles by designer Tim Schafer.

To coincide, Double Fine released a free Flash minigame entitled Host Master and the Conquest of Humor, a pastiche of Schafer's LucasArts games in which the player takes on the role of Schafer backstage at the GDC Awards.

From these, four smaller games were made that for the first time in Double Fine's history had project leaders other than Schafer: Costume Quest, Stacking, Iron Brigade and Once upon a Monster.

With no other publishing deals lined up at the time, Schafer turned back to the eight game ideas developed from Amnesia Fortnight, believing they could be developed further into short complete games.

Schafer also looked at the success of smaller focused games like Geometry Wars on the various download services, realizing the potential market for similar titles.

While composing music for these two games, McConnell worked closely with Tim Schafer, who later hired him to compose scores for the titles Psychonauts and Brütal Legend for his company Double Fine.