Tim Schafer, head of Double Fine, didn’t really work much on Kiln . He was, as he says, “right next to it,” giving “ideas and stuff.” But apparently, he inadvertently gave the game its name, a fact he didn’t realize until he watched the Double Fine documentary on its internal game jam, Amnesia Fortnite. From it, Schafer unlocked his own memory of Kiln project lead Derek Brand pitching the game to him, and Schafer suggesting he call it Kiln , “like you’re killin’ it.”

“Smashing it” would probably be more accurate, but less punny, and we’ve already got a game with that name. In Kiln , you play as a little spirit that can inhabit and control pottery.…