Decline Broken Age - Double Fine's Kickstarter Adventure Game

Steam and GoG don't discount games whenever they want to. Developers do.

 

That's what I said. They=developers

 

The guy is a fucking idiot, but he is right in this case. What are you fucking doing Tim?

 

Meh, cba to care as long the next chapter is as good or better than the last one.

2 weeks left?

 

Game looks awesome. What a shocker!

 

What a surprise, they switched places and DF can re-use part of the backgrounds and the characters. Yet still they take YEARS to develop Act 2... such efficiency. And all those huge empty areas, what a waste.

BTW, some inconsistent dialog there. Shay just meet the cloud dudes but knows the Jack Black character is called Harm'ny without any of them saying it...

 

Awesomely identical to the first part. But it's ok... it's been years months I played the first part I forgot about everything already...

 

No no no, Tim's writing skill is flawless. This must be a mistake!

 

In other news, by the time Double Fine releases the final product, Harebrained Schemes will have produced three RPG's.

 

Dialogue "choices" in conversation must all be exhausted, picking the most radical choice makes no difference.

Such quality.

 

Well, it is an adventure game.

Kind of annoying that you have to go through all of them instead of 1 right one with 3 wrong ones though.

 

AHAHAHAHAHA

Release date announced and no new post? POE slaying all lesser kickstarters in a balanced fashioned.

April 28 in case you're wondering, and will come as a patch for Act 1.

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Broken Age Coming April 28th!
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Greetings dearest backers!

As many of you will have seen already, we’ve announced that the full Broken Age adventure, Acts 1 & 2 combined, will be coming to PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android, Ouya, PS4 and PS Vita on April 28th! (Although PlayStation platform release dates may vary depending on the local store update times)

That’s only One. Month. Away. Say Whaaatttt? Exciting times are the times we are now living in!

You won’t have to do anything special to get Act 2, it will be added as a free update to Act 1. So if you have it installed already, it should patch in and you’ll be good to go!

Cross Save
Broken Age also support cross save across many platforms, so if you’ve completed Act 1 on PC, Mac, or Linux, you’d be able to continue your game on your iOS or Android device through Dropbox cloud saves if you so wished. PS4 and PS Vita have their own separate cross save system as well.

IGN Act 2 Sneak Peek
Last week Tim took Broken Age Act 2 over to the IGN offices (which are handily just around the corner) and sat down with Marty Sliva to play through the first 12 minutes of the game. If you can’t wait any longer to see what’s in store for Shay and Vella, and you don’t mind a few light spoilers (we made sure to hold back all puzzles), then go check out IGN’s 12 minute preview (warning: again, spoilers).

Broken Age Box art, by Cory Schmitz
The physical box release for Broken Age is making it’s way through the manufacturing plants as we speak with a classy box art design by our good friend Cory Schmitz. The box will feature a transparent slip case with Shay and Vella on it, which means you can choose who sits at the bottom or the top, and it’s suuuuuuuuuuper purty. Check it out here with the slip case removed...


Please note that t his is NOT the $100+ backer reward box, which is going to be a whole bunch bigger, and obviously even cooler. That will be based on this design, but we’re waiting for the documentary to wrap up before we start making that, since that will be included. No, this is the physical box that will be for general release.

Pillars of Eternity
Lastly. our good friends at Obsidian are releasing their crowdfunded game Pillars of Eternity today, and we wanted to give them a big ol’ high five! Made by the same talented folks who made South Park: The Stick of Truth, and Fallout: New Vegas, Pillars of Eternity launches today on PC, Mac and Linux, go take a look!

http://buy.pillarsofeternity.com/


Thanks everyone!

Nice work on the POE plug.

 

I still can't believe that this douchebag made wo of my favourite adventure games, one of which - in my humble opinion - is among the most original and creative video games of all time.
Cognitive dissonance ramped up to...over 9000

 

Has anyone pointed out (I haven't been following closely) that Al Lowe said the same thing about Torin's Passage, and (like TS) involved his daughter in the development?

 

Difference is Torin's Passage wasn't horrible.

 

Difference is Al Lowe trusted his daughter's creativity and allowed her to design a puzzle. Tim Schafer underestimated his daughter and made a patronizing game, filled with obvious "puzzles".

 

Even bigger difference would be that Torin's Passage wasn't a KickStarter with ~90,000 backers who financed it in the belief that it would be a classic point-and-click adventure game as was promised, and nowhere did it say it'll be a "dumbed down casual kid-friendly game for the tablet generation".

 

I wasn't trying to rehabilitate Broken Age, so much as bring attention to a coincidence that I found interesting.

 

Funny thing is that some days ago I read a LP of that game and it seems what she "designed" was a maze.

Also its funny you picked that game because Torin's Passage was meant to be the first of a series and it was the only one, Sierra canned them so it ended in a non-ending, Broken Age did exactly the same ... oh wait, it did WORST as Torin's Passage had some ending (key word is some) as Broken Age was a cliffhanger, sure its a coincidence to a degree ... Torin's Passage was intended as a series that due to changed to the market and Sierra itself ended at the start whatever Al wanted the fact remained Sierra was making it as a series, Broken Age is a example of Kickstarter and Double Fine incapable management.

 

As far as I know, there aren't other adventure games where a famous designer set out to make a game playable with his daughter, so I'm not sure what else I would've "picked." I haven't played Broken Age or Torin's Passage (the latter looks pretty lame, to be honest, and the fact that Al Lowe compares it to Mrs. Doubtfire is not promising). In fact, I had barely heard of the latter game, but a recent user review of Primordia compared Primordia to Torin's Passage ("The game reminds me of old-school adventure games like Torin's Passage"), which seemed like a really weird thing for a review to say, so I set out to learn a little more about TP. I saw the stuff about Al Lowe's daughter, thought it was an interesting tidbit given the controversy over Broken Age, and decided to share it. Sorry if the lack of an ulterior motive is unsatisfying!

 

LIES, clearly you were payed by DF to spread distress among our ranks!

 

If only I had the honor of being paid by the noble creators of Massive Chalice, the spiritual offspring of X-Com and KoDP! (Though apparenlty they pay well, so it would be pretty grand.)

 

http://lparchive.org/Torins-Passage-(by-Blind-Sally)/

There you go, part 23 is the maze section.