Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter project by Double Fine [ended, $3.3 Million funded]
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Nolan North Mode. Many joke about this every time his VO role in an upcoming game is announced, and there is no better opportunity for it to become a reality.
I just checked THQ's stocks and holy shit this game is really doing it
beelzebozo
Jealous Bastard
so bad ass.
Castor Krieg
Banned
This is actually one of the best way to spend money. Rich people already have TVs, cars, etc., but probably a lot of them grew up with Tim's games. If I had 1000$ to spare easily I would do it as well.
It's not necessarily generous people. This is a chance to buy/fund something you could never have otherwise. If I could pay $30 for Tool to hurry up and put out their new cd I would do so.
If I were rich, I would've donated $150k and asked for my very own smiling Ron Gilbert.
Gunmonkey36
Member
Pretty much only gaming news sites from what I have seen. I think it will hit bigger news outlets once it hits a million.
I'd say $1,000 for a game to be made is generous no matter what the game is or how much money you have
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
$727k. And I was wondering if they'd reach $600k before the day was over. They should be able to reach $800k before tomorrow.
Lionel Mandrake
Member
Wow. I guess this is what happens when you have good relations with your fans.
Gunmonkey36
Member
It will hit 800k before dinner time much less tomorrow.
I wonder if Gamecube fans are still angry at Tim....
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=125615
civilstrife
Member
Hopefully this means this will become Doublefine's next main project and not a side project. The initial proposal describes a very small team working under Tim's "supervision ". I want this getting Tim and Ron's full attention. 
plagiarize
Banned
as someone who considered getting 03/03/04 tattooed on his arm, to commemorate the death of Sam and Max: Freelance Police, the day LucasArt's accountants and lawyers and new management decided that there wasn't enough of an audience for an adventure game anymore, seeing this number continue to increase in leaps and bounds fills my heart with so much warmth.
when Tim setup his own studio, i was like, "cool! he'll make an awesome adventure game now he doesn't have lucasarts telling him he can't!".
but it didn't happen, because publishers continued to ignore the existing fanbase.
still doubt we exist publishers? $738,324 and counting.
when Tim setup his own studio, i was like, "cool! he'll make an awesome adventure game now he doesn't have lucasarts telling him he can't!".
but it didn't happen, because publishers continued to ignore the existing fanbase.
still doubt we exist publishers? $738,324 and counting.
Sorry but posts like this are just dumb. The reason this does so well (though yes, much better than one would expect) is that it's a game by some of the most famous people in game design, backed by an established developer with a professional track record, while the word is spread through a network of internet celebrities like Notch. Of course that's gonna make waves.
But the little guy with his ambitious proof of concept pitch is still gonna struggle, Kickstarter or not.
For Square-Enix? A 3 second title screen for FF XV.
Get a cell sample so that we can clone him in the future.
Obviously the next step for point-and-click adventure is to become a point-and-shoot adventure.
plagiarize
Banned
this is true of course, but it's funny that you mention Notch in here. Minecraft sort of made all it's money with a similar idea. sell the game before it's finished, to fund it's completion. that's how Notch BECAME an internet celebrity after all.
if the proof of concept pitch is fun, that little guy CAN make it, even if it's likely to be a struggle. do what Notch did. sell the pitch with an open price, with the promise of getting all the latest betas all the way through to the final game.
Neuromancer
Member
Aw fuck it, I'm giving in.
Hope it's as good as Grim Fandango, AKA the greatest adventure game of all time.
Hope it's as good as Grim Fandango, AKA the greatest adventure game of all time.
charlequin
Banned
Putting aside the last comment (which, as already has been established, is just factually wrong) -- what makes you think it's stealing attention from other products? Past statements from Kickstarter have indicated that people who contribute once are far more likely to contribute to future projects, and we've already had people in this thread talk about finding other cool, worthwhile projects while browsing the site after first hearing about it because of Double Fine.
The success of a project like this is going to have a direct, tangible effect in making future Kickstarter projects more visible and successful, as well as helping to cement the crowdsourcing concept as legit and viable even further. Your hostility is entirely misplaced.
Combichristoffersen
Combovers don't work when there is no hair
Gunmonkey36
Member
It's 19:13 here, so only 5 hours left of the day
Psh, Double Fine is in Cali. Pacific is the obvious time to go by. Thus still ~14 hrs left in the day
Alexios
Cores, shaders and BIOS oh my!
Works for some, doesn't for others. Not every game is Minecraft (and it has barely evolved after a certain point too btw, it's pretty much what people bought still, after the introduction of survival it's all been minor fluff). Kenshi has a similar model but it's probably not doing nearly as well at this point, it's not the kind of game you can enjoy before it's fully featured up to a point. It'll probably have to at least reach the early betas of Mount&Blade before people truly care. And of course never achieve Minecraft success since it's not a game everyone can play. Oh, and good luck funding a game like Shenmue 3 in such a way. 1 million is one thing, 50-100 a whole other. Yeah, publishers aren't going to be scared of things like this man.
Anyway, glad this did so well, I hope the end result will be worthwhile, but that they got funded in this manner doesn't mean they won't try to actually make a game that sells the most it can and thus may fall victim to the same things publishers would demand in terms of audience, accessibility, etc, even if it's self published via DD...
Really hope the Nexus 2 guys will give kickstarter a shot, doing their attempt via a site nobody knew was bound to lead to failure, even though the proposition was better (dibs to shares of profits). The situation itself didn't help matters of course, as it's also not a game everyone would play, and few had heard of the first one...
MiniBossBattle
Member
This is actually happening. My facebook is lighting up from developers and old high school buddies chipping in and talking about it.
reggieandTFE
Member
Did the Kinect game sell well? Not trying to troll, just curious.
plagiarize
Banned
oh, i don't disagree that this isn't scaring publishers, i'm just pointing out that you don't NEED to be an established name to make it with similar tactics, as Notch demonstrates. it's hugely unlikely yes, but it can happen.
SteveWinwood
Member
If anything hopefully it'll push lucasarts to release their old stuff on gog. They stopped after just a few on steam :/
I'm betting at least 950k by the end of the day.
I hope it encourages them to give the same SE treatment to DOTT that MI 1&2 got.
That is true, but let's not forget that Minecraft at least in its beginning was a project of pretty limited scope. But I am more referring to the kinds of titles that traditionally sat between AAA games and indie titles. These are still very much dependent on actual publishers.
What may indeed (and of course hopefully) be going out of style is the concept of the publisher as a gargantuan cross-industry behemoth that has too much power. What we need more are mid-sized companies like Stardock and Paradox that listen to their audience and are willing to experiment.
I thought it had already picked up a few hundred thousand bucks? Or did I remember wrong?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
To elaborate on your "professional track record" thing, in the last 18 months, Double Fine has shipped 4 new games (Costume Quest, Stacking, Trenched, OUAM), 2 ports (Psychonauts Mac + PC update, Costume Quest PC), 2 non-game applications (Action Happy Funtime Whatever, Psychonauts Vault), and they're about to ship 2 more ports (Stacking PC, Trenched PC)... plus DLC for all four of the games they shipped.
It's pretty clear they'll get a project done once they start it.