Broken Age - Double Fine's Kickstarter Adventure Game

[Infinitron]

I guess it shows how fed up people are with modern games, but even if I was sure it would be a masterpiece I don't think I could bring myself to pay more than 100 bucks for a game no matter how much money I had to spare. It would be like giving $500 tip at a restaurant. No matter what the bill that's ridiculous for two people.

Oh I would pay $300 for a Fallout 1 quality game, possibly more. It would have to be as good a Fallout 1 in every way, with the very best people working on it and no concessions for the masses. TB, quality design, art and writing. I would want the complete, old school experience. It shipped in a collectable hard box, maps, nice manual, etc. No cheaping out on anything anywhere. I would pay that kind of money, for craftsmanship.

Would it also have to be only as big and long as Fallout 1?

 

[felipepepe]

And look at that:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/epifanica/the-light-of-the-darkness-the-game

AoD is much bigger project so why not try? At worse more people will know about the game. It goes against my intuition that those games with little to show (not even a playable demo), and unknown developers can get the funding but they do. It would be interesting to see how well or bad it would do. Make a good video that explains design decisions, and settings, and it could do well.

I think it would only end up gathering some pocket money that wont really help the game much, and at the expense of a great deal of dignity..."Hey, it's AoD, that game they made with only 10k from kickstarter..."

Also, that project you linked only raised 22k after 30 days of begging on every goddam BR website (the game is made by BRs), as "the first crowd funding BR game ever made, HUAHSUHAUSHUAHS"....

 

[groke]

And look at that:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/epifanica/the-light-of-the-darkness-the-game

AoD is much bigger project so why not try? At worse more people will know about the game. It goes against my intuition that those games with little to show (not even a playable demo), and unknown developers can get the funding but they do. It would be interesting to see how well or bad it would do. Make a good video that explains design decisions, and settings, and it could do well.

I think you would have to be pretty fucking dumb to give VD any money without a game under his belt, let alone pay for Age of Vapourware before release.

And what the fuck would they use the money for? AoD is nearly done, if they were going to use kickstarter it would make a lot more sense to put it towards their next game (colony ship RPG?).

 

[Davaris]

Would it also have to be only as big and long as Fallout 1?

Absolutely. It was not too long and it was not too short.

The kind of people I would want to make such a game would be Tim Cain, Leonard Boyarsky, etc. The core members of the original Fallout 1 team. I haven't really enjoyed any other game as much since.

So I wouldn't drop that kind of money on anyone else, I can think of. But who knows, if a team appeared that can do it as well as those guys, I would definitely take a look at what they were doing.

 

[SerratedBiz]

You're saying you -wouldn't- pledge your money to a game developer with a background as rich as

Mary is a writer, artist and healing arts practitioner based in Oakland, Ca. She is multi-cultural and has studied with healers worldwide to essentialize wisdom from a broad family of cultures. Her passion is to re-awaken and re-member peoples' natural ability to heal and restore themselves to the full potential of their vital energy so that they can live active healthy lives in harmony and peace.

This is why our games don't essentialize wisdom any more.

 

[Kraszu]

And look at that:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/epifanica/the-light-of-the-darkness-the-game

AoD is much bigger project so why not try? At worse more people will know about the game. It goes against my intuition that those games with little to show (not even a playable demo), and unknown developers can get the funding but they do. It would be interesting to see how well or bad it would do. Make a good video that explains design decisions, and settings, and it could do well.

I think you would have to be pretty fucking dumb to give VD any money without a game under his belt, let alone pay for Age of Vapourware before release.

And what the fuck would they use the money for? AoD is nearly done, if they were going to use kickstarter it would make a lot more sense to put it towards their next game (colony ship RPG?).

It is? What is the release date, thursday?

 

[Forgotten Friend]

@ SerratedBiz.

Yeah that is my real issue. I would absolutely back any game that looked like it wouldn't suck if it were on Kickstarter. Unfortunately not many people can deliver on both writing and gameplay even if they could complete such a big task.

 

[groke]

It is? What is the release date, thursday?

I mean "nearly done" as in "maybe in the next year or two", of course. I don't think giving them money now is going to have any effect on the speed or likelihood of release, it's a lot closer to finished than it was in 2006.

 

[Forgotten Friend]

Is that the one about romans or whatever?

 

[Destroid]

Post-apocalyptic wizard Romans.

 

[covr]

Text-adventure about post-apocalyptic wizard Romans.

 

[Forgotten Friend]

Sounds awesome. When's it coming out?

 

[J_C]

A little update:

Proud to announce we're going to be developing for PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, and Android! In addition to Steam codes, we will also be offering DRM free versions. And for all our lovely friends overseas, we'll be localizing the text in French, Italian, German, and Spanish. Thanks for the support!

 

[Black]

Or you can just link the video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=TFKwplDBmgg

 

[Zed]

Closing in on two million doolars!

 

[TripJack]

It's going to be quite amusing when this goes full vaporware. It will unleash a torrent of butthurt the likes of which the internet has never seen.

 

[shihonage]

It's going to be quite amusing when this goes full vaporware. It will unleash a torrent of butthurt the likes of which the internet has never seen.

There will be a post-mortem on Wired, a long write-up with several chapters, with bolded names like "Schafer's List" and "Downfall of DoubleFine", large photos of their smiling faces, and excerpts like these:

"Kickstarter seemed like a nice idea at first. It really did."

"There was a Master List, you know, of all the cool stuff we were going to put in there... we jokingly called it "Schafer's List"...."

"And then, you know, the girls came, the money just started sipping away, and we sat around the office, and we had lots of fun, and nothing was done... "

"The pressure, the pressure of all these people waiting for our game... I could tell it was getting to him... He sat in his office with blinds closed, and the bottle... trying to finish that cursed level with the bridges..."

"The rehab didn't last..."

"We all felt something was wrong, and everyone starting distancing themselves... but he was possessed... obsessed with finishing the game on his own..."

"I will always remember when I got that phone call from him, at 4am... he was incoherent... I think he was channeling our game protagonist, slurring something about the bridge level... "

"My heart was pounding as I drove to the bridge at night, I knew it, I just KNEW it, and everything sunk as I saw the lights at the water..."

"We never should've done this Kickstarter thing. We were not young enough. It was stupid. I don't know if I'll ever forgive myself for what happened."

 

[TripJack]

lul no

more like 'Game developer absconds with millions of dollars freely given to him by the internet'

kickstarter is a work of brilliance though they make boatloads of money and do nothing

 

[shihonage]

lul no? lul yes!

Nobody's this high-profile just going to run away with the money.

I am being realistic, son.

 

[J_C]

What is this vaporware shit about? This will never happen. I don't think Double Fine and Tim Schafer wants to destroy themselves in the industry by robbing the backers of their money.

 

[Harold]

I dunno, that Tim Schafer looks like a pretty shady guy. I mean just look at his evil beard.

 

[Berekän]

Maybe in the past, when the market wasn't fucking flooded with Zombie games.

 

[kaizoku]

ignore this post
it was merge from a thread in the Adventure Game forum

 

[PorkaMorka]

Dumb question, are all those millions of dollars of donations already locked in? Have credit cards been charged? Or could some of that funding evaporate when the funding deadline passes?

 

[Roguey]

They test them to see if they're legitimate, but yes it is possible that some of them may back out before the deadline or not have what they pledged.