Broken Age - Double Fine's Kickstarter Adventure Game

[Zed]

closing in on 3 mills with 50 hours left. the income rate is just getting higher as well, since popular websites are writing about it.

3 millions would be totally cray-cray

 

[Crooked Bee]

Now they should just make three games, not one.

 

[Alex]

Yeah, to tell the truth, I would prefer if they didn't waste all that money gilding the lily. I mean sure, I am not exactly representative of their audience, I happen to think many CGA games are beautiful. But still, I would really prefer if they spent the money o either give us more games or a much longer single game, rather than blowing it all on full VO and what not.

 

[likaq]

Yeah, to tell the truth, I would prefer if they didn't waste all that money gilding the lily. I mean sure, I am not exactly representative of their audience, I happen to think many CGA games are beautiful, but still, I would really prefer if they spent the money o either give us more games or a much longer single game, rather than blowing it all on full VO and what not.

This. 3 games -> ~ 1 M$ per game. It is enough to make great 2D adventure. Fuck voice acting.

 

[Roguey]

And I say to hell with you guys, they should make another Grim Fandango (which also had a 3 million budget).

 

[Alex]

Roguey

Sure, Grim Fandango was awesome, but if I can get a Maniac Mansion, a Sam & Max and Loom 2 for the same price (God, I so wanted a Loom 2), I would trade Grim Fandango in a blink.

 

[J_C]

Unbelievable! In the last few hours the donations have sped up again, it is almost 3M now. Funny how the first and last few hours are the busiest.

 

[Ulminati]

Oop. I had nearly forgotten about this. Thanks for reminding me. Pledge made

 

[Destroid]

What a gravy train for the owners of kickstarter.

 

[SCO]

79,274
Backers

$3,008,678
pledged of $400,000 goal

11
hours to go

 

[DwarvenFood]

Motherfuckers better still have cash left to give Wasteland2

But yeah, suck that, publishers.. wonder if they all will try to do adventure games, or maybe it will all cool down until the game is actually released.

 

[Ulminati]

What I'm really curious to see is how well DF Adventure will sell AFTER it's released. (Assuming of course that Tim & Ron deliver a quality product). Did everyone who would have bought it already buy it with pledges? (That would be a hilarious way to troll steam out of a cut of sales). Will the publicity garnered from the unusual funding method mean a bunch of other people will pick it up once the game is released?

One of the inherent dangers of crowdsourcing like this is that developers are given very little incentive to actually finish a quality product on time if they've already received 80-90% of the total income they would've gotten from sales already.

 

[Azalin]

I just noticed that the 1000$,5000$ and 10000$ pledges are sold out,

 

[Infinitron]

 

[felipepepe]

What I'm really curious to see is how well DF Adventure will sell AFTER it's released. (Assuming of course that Tim & Ron deliver a quality product). Did everyone who would have bought it already buy it with pledges? (That would be a hilarious way to troll steam out of a cut of sales). Will the publicity garnered from the unusual funding method mean a bunch of other people will pick it up once the game is released?

One of the inherent dangers of crowdsourcing like this is that developers are given very little incentive to actually finish a quality product on time if they've already received 80-90% of the total income they would've gotten from sales already.

Dude, they "sold" only 79,274 copies until now...a game like this could easily get to 500k-1M sales. The guys are starting the project with the game 100% paid, anything that will come after is pure, clean profit. That's a HUGE incentive to release it.

video

I'm having more fun just watching his videos than with any recent "funny adventure game" I played, like those from TellTale.

 

[Palikka]

DF streaming the last hours of the drive. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/double-fine-adventure
Dont know if they actually have other than the numbers there.

The kickstarter is also getting alot of donations the closer to the end they get. Yesterday it was around 5k per hour and now it's around 20k.. https://twitter.com/#!/TimJustRaised
DF should just extend the drive and the donations would go even higher and higher. They could make BILLIONS!!!!

 

[Azalin]

The live stream started but the framerate is shit right now

 

[Zed]

yeah framerate is shit but the stream is fun.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/double-fine-adventure

 

[J_C]

The framerate is better now. Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert are both there. Fun stuff.

Lol, someone just asked Tim if you can buy Full Throotle and Grim Fandango somewhere. Tim's answer: No, you should pirate them and buy stuff from our store! :D

 

[Stabwound]

 

[TripJack]

fucking hell they are past 3.25 millions now

 

[Aeschylus]

Fun stream, and a fucking awesome result for DF. They made mention of the Wasteland 2 kickstarter in the stream as well.

They had better make something as great as Grim Fandango now that they basically have the same budget.

 

[Azalin]

3.3 million now

 

[garren]

enough time to reach $3,333,333?

 

[Infinitron]

Schafer and Gilbert drinking beers and goofing off, live