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[SomeDude]

Yes.

How many people are involved in the creation of this, do you know?

 

[indigo-cyclops]

Just look round the kickstarter games section, plenty of small games you'll never hear about (or are less likely to) get funded through it quite well.
If you don't have name recognition and a pedigree like Tim and Co, show off assets and such for the game.

That's all I was thinking, out loud, really. It seems to get more people on board, developers should be more open to discussing the game openly. I am definitely going to start looking around Kickstarter more.

Next up, Jane Jensen, and a new Gabriel Knight.

Tim and DF will make Adventure games relevant again here in the States.

 

[Beck]

Put my $30 down. Not a huge adventure fan but I'm a Double Fine fan so I'll gladly hand over a couple more bucks.
I hope it breaks 2 million in the next month... would love to see what they'd do with it. More companies need to try this.

 

[Deleted member 17706]

How many people are involved in the creation of this, do you know?

I'm sure that will depend on how much money they can raise in the end.

 

[Dog Problems]

That's all I was thinking, out loud, really. It seems to get more people on board, developers should be more open to discussing the game openly. I am definitely going to start looking around Kickstarter more.

Next up, Jane Jensen, and a new Gabriel Knight.

Tim and DF will make Adventure games relevant again here in the States.

Funny you should mention that.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/postudios/cognition-an-erica-reed-thriller

It's not Gabriel Knight, and she's not fully involved, but it's something!

 

[YianGaruga]

I'm not a HUGE fan of Double Fine, I'm broke as fuck and I don't really like point & click adventures.

Yet I just pledged $15, since the whole thing is just too awesome to not be a part of it.

There's hope for this industry yet.

 

[Anticitizen One]

They should first use the money to up the production values of the game before diverting funds to release it on more platforms

 

[Vinterbird]

Do we know if this is the Ron Gilbert game we got artwork for last year, or if this is a new and different game?

 

[Gourry]

...and there goes $30 from me!

 

[Incendiary]

So they hit double the amount of their goal in under 24 hours. They also look to hit one million close to the 24 hour mark. Even if the donation pace slacks up quite a bit, we could easily see them hit the $2 million dollar mark, enough for this to possibly be a widely-advertised release.

Of course, now they're going to have 20,000+ people giving input to the game as it's being created. Can someone say waaaaaaaaay too many chefs?

 

[Jintor]

What they doubled their goal overnight

what

 

[Bebpo]

That's all I was thinking, out loud, really. It seems to get more people on board, developers should be more open to discussing the game openly. I am definitely going to start looking around Kickstarter more.

Next up, Jane Jensen, and a new Gabriel Knight.

Tim and DF will make Adventure games relevant again here in the States.

I'd be surprised if Jane Jenson makes another full length adventure game after Gray Matter (GK without the GK license) took something like ten years of her life in development hell (thanks to incompetent publishers and developers) and came out and bombed without anyone even playing it I can't imagine her not taking the whole experience as a huge downer and not wanting to go through it again.

I bet she makes casual episodic iOS adventure stuff next like the Tex Murphy guy did.

 

[Corto]

Everybody should watch the video on the Kickstarter pledge page. I watched it again a few minutes ago and is still funny... hehehehe Sausages.

 

[Danthrax]

Seems to be slowing down a bit since it's hit 200%. Still getting money in though.

Looks like it's still getting about $1,000 per minute. At this rate, it'll hit $1 million in about three hours.

 

[Bebpo]

Of course, now they're going to have 20,000+ people giving input to the game as it's being created. Can someone say waaaaaaaaay too many chefs?

If no one else makes it, I'm making the first post on the community forum called "DON'T LISTEN TO US". Community feedback in the creative aspects of the game would be a bad bad thing in a case like this. Too many varied opinions on the direction it should go.

Use the community to do QA, not for creating the game.

 

[indigo-cyclops]

Funny you should mention that.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/postudios/cognition-an-erica-reed-thriller

It's not Gabriel Knight, and she's not fully involved, but it's something!

Ohhh, right. Forgot about that. Was actually really stoked when I read about that. May have contributed already to that one...

I really enjoyed Gray Matter - and yes, unfortunately it became a messy development and may have turned her off for good. She still has it, and maybe the time is now to just try once more. That new game she's involved looks damn good though, so that may be a start. There's a lot of quality ADV games out there, it's really a shame that they don't have the popularity and prowess they once had. Those devs need more budget money, a lot of them would flourish.

 

[so1337]

Man. If it keeps going at this pace, they'll be able to fund a trilogy.

 

[kodecraft]

Kickstarter for Tim Schafer to buy Saints Row IP and make a point & click about it.

Haha, ace!

 

[brianmcdoogle]

What's everyone's predictions on the final amount raised?

 

[DanDeschain]

I'm in for $15.

 

[louiedog]

Related?

https://twitter.com/geoffkeighley/status/167693105716396032/photo/1

Isn't that the same shirt that Tim was wearing in the Kickstarter video? Please fund this project so that Tim can buy a new shirt!

 

[Vinterbird]

What's everyone's predictions on the final amount raised?

1.8 million. Notch is gonna donate a massive amount of money, and others will too.

 

[Combichristoffersen]

Maybe somewhere down the line they could sell that undoctored photo of Ron Gilbert smiling as DLC

 

[Ceebs]

What's everyone's predictions on the final amount raised?

I think it will top out at around 1.75 million by the time the 30 days are up.

 

[Deadstar]

How many people are involved in the creation of this, do you know?

32 and 1/2.

 

[Colocho]

This could easily hit 2 mil in the span of 33 days and that just brings a tear to my eye.

 

[Shiggy]

$872,096 pledged of $400,000 goal
Seriously?
That's awesome. What are they going to do with all that much extra money? (I read the FAQ, but I somehow doubt that even Double Fine expected that much money)

 

[Corto]

What's everyone's predictions on the final amount raised?

2 millions.

 

[plagiarize]

i think it's going to pick up again, at least through this evening. lots of people won't have heard about this yet still. $1 million in 24 hours looks likely, but definately by the end of the day.

barely over $125,000 to go.

 

[RazzleDazzleRB]

I'm a little nervous about the art style of this game, I hope it is good.

 

[Corky]

What's everyone's predictions on the final amount raised?

~3 million. 33 days left.

 

[DieH@rd]

I'm a little nervous about the art style of this game, I hope it is good.

Here is one possible clue:

Didn't Ron Gilbert post something back in November about making an old school adventure game? He posted concept art and everything. That could be the game they are trying to now make.

 

[PsychoSoldier]

Kickstarter for Tim Schafer to buy Saints Row IP and make a point & click about it.

I need this yesterday.

 

[Combichristoffersen]

Tim should be listening to this while watching the Kickstarter money rolling in

 

[RedNumberFive]

I generally find most Kickstarter campaigns retarded. They mostly seem to consist of hipsters who want to make rooftop gardens, but then spend all the money on PBR and clove cigarettes. I can get behind this one though!

 

[scitek]

The cinemas are standard def and butt ugly. If they saved all the assets and animation files they should be able to have an intern sit down and rerender them. Also, the PC version needs to display the 360 controller buttons instead of the keyboard keys on the GUI (when playing with contoller). There's some tweaking to be done, I'm sure there's a few other things that could be adjusted as well. I'd like to see a real Psychonauts HD for multiple platforms.

OT, but this'll do that for you. I use it, it works perfectly.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2151566

 

[Dog Problems]

Tim should be listening to this while watching the Kickstarter money rolling in

Or this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO22Z0T3qPE&ob=av2e

 

[celebi23]

Do we know if this is the Ron Gilbert game we got artwork for last year, or if this is a new and different game?

Oh man, I hope it's that An idea that he's had since BEFORE 1987? Damn, that'd be just about as old as me

 

[FateBreaker]

Double Fine will buy THQ.

wow, lol

 

[scitek]

I wonder how many people have donated to this not because they're fans of adventure games, but because they're just tired of the publishers running the industry the way they do.

 

[guit3457]

I'm in for 30$....

 

[Emitan]

The game's budget was going to be $300,000. They've almost tripled it. OMG

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

So it took Tim Schafer and DF to break the $1 million barrier on kickstarter. Wow. Pretty neat.

They are not the first to break a million. It's rare, but not unheard of.

 

[aeolist]

I wonder how many people have donated to this not because they're fans of adventure games, but because they're just tired of the publishers running the industry the way they do.

I don't like adventure games at all and I'm seriously considering donating for the documentary and because of the funny intro they made for it

 

[Fusion Pizza]

Holy Hell that's a lot of money, Make an awesome game DoubleFine.

 

[Krauser Kat]

1.8 million. Notch is gonna donate a massive amount of money, and others will too.

He Already did his part. His agreement with DF will be to make another psychonauts not a new adventure game.

 

[Lime]

This made me fork over 15$ immediately:

 

[brianmcdoogle]

They are not the first to break a million. It's rare, but not unheard of.

i was wondering last night, but what is the current record?

 

[EVIL]

They are not the first to break a million. It's rare, but not unheard of.

They would be the first if they can pull it off in the first 24 hours, which aren't over yet.

 

[Jackson]

Holy Hell that's a lot of money, Make an awesome game DoubleFine.

For a studio DF's size it's actually not. Buuuuuuuuut it's till awesome to see this happening.