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2 Player Productions, Limited is a video production company based in
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. It was founded in 2005 by Paul Owens, Paul Levering, and Asif Siddiky. The company produces content relating to video game culture and the process of game production. They produced the documentary ''Reformat the Planet'' in 2008, and have since worked with mainstream companies including MTV and
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.


Projects


''Reformat the Planet''

''Reformat the Planet'' is a documentary film, first shown in 2008 at the South by Southwest Film Festival film festival, about the chiptune music scene. The film depicts events in the culture such as
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.


''Penny Arcade: The Series''

''Penny Arcade: The Series'' Is a 27-episodes web show about Penny Arcade and
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. The first season was aired on GameTrailers and has a positive collective review of 9.1. Subsequent seasons were produced by Vantage Point Production.


''Uncharted 3''

In 2010 the company was hired by game developer
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to produce behind-the-scenes content detailing development for their game ''
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''.


''Minecraft: The Story of Mojang''

In December 2012, the company released ''Minecraft: The Story of Mojang'', a documentary about the development of the video game ''
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'' and its developer, the Swedish game company
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. The idea was first shown on February 21, 2011 as a proof of concept video to attempt to raise money to finish the project using Kickstarter. The company's goal was to raise $150,000. This goal was met on March 26, 2011, however people continued to donate so that the final amount raised was $210,297. Depending on the amount donated contributors will have an opportunity to share their personal story in the documentary.


''Double Fine Adventure!''

In February 2012, Double Fine Productions became the first game company to fully fund a high-budget video-game via Kickstarter, a crowdfunding website. As part of their funding agreement, Double Fine pledged to hire 2 Player Productions to document the entire development process as a serial documentary, with roughly monthly episodes, made available to all backers of the project. Leading up to the release of the game's final act, Double Fine also began making the episodes freely available on
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in early March 2015. The 20 episode series concluded in July 2015, three months after the final act of the game was officially released.


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* {{Authority control Video production companies Mass media companies established in 2005 Companies based in Portland, Oregon 2005 establishments in Oregon