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Off-Topic Discussion => Gaming Discussion => Topic started by: Mefustae on February 10, 2012, 12:37:55 am
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Two days ago, Tim Schafer - founder of Double Fine Productions - announced his plans to create an old-school point and click adventure game, the kind that hasn't been seen coming from major publishers in quite a while. To do this, he planned to finance the game using donations via the Kickstarter website. The original goal was for ~$400,000. Of that, $300,000 would be spent producing the game itself for publishing on Steam, with the remaining $100,000 spent making a documentary that would track the creation of the game at every stage of development. Apparently, was a rather good idea.
As many of you should know, Double Fine is quite well known for developing games that are rather more esoteric than the usual cookie-cutter console first person shooter. In short, they make games that are unique, weird, and bloody memorable. To see this, you don't have to go farther than Psychonauts; a brilliant and wholly under appreciated game. Safe to say, Double Fine is held in rather good regard by gamers.
Tim Schafer may have underestimated how high a regard gamers everywhere held for him and his company, because barely 2 days after the initial posting, Double Fine's Kickstarter proposal has earned almost 1.2 million dollars (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure). The original target of $400,000 was reached in just 8 ****ing hours. A number of Kickstarter records stand shattered, and quite a few people are surprised at just how much support they've garnered from the audience. This feels a lot like the days of novelists and musicians producing works financed by patronage.
I've done my part, have you?
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woah. . .thats bloody awesome!
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Congrats to double Fine Productions!
A documentary on game development? Hell yea!
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It's Tim Schafer. I'm surprised people didn't donate their firstborn children.
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Yep, Congrats to them. To bad, Nexus 2 wasn't that lucky :(
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Yep, Congrats to them. To bad, Nexus 2 wasn't that lucky :(
Aye, too bad. Though I'd bet if Nexus 2 had gotten a nod from @Notch, things may have gone differently. That guy is like the Oprah of video games (apologies to games for the comparison).
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Still 32 days left and donations still seem to be running at around $2000 every fifteen minutes by my casual observation. They should certainly get to $2,000,000. Is $3,000,000 a possibility?