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Broken Age |OT| A Double Fine Adventure! [iPad/Ouya Act One out now]
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In order,
I don't believe you can.
Shake it off the tree and then jump down one of the holes.
Present the item to them that solves their riddle.
Vigilant Walrus
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I just scrolled through them with mousewheel. i notice you can scroll fast up and down in all kickstarter games I have bought at least.
Inferno313
Banned
Just beat act 1 and I loved it. I never really grew up with point-and-click adventure games as I was more of a Nintendo kid, but I really enjoyed this and it's made me want to go back and check out some of the classics in the genre.
What... How? I'm an adventure game noob and it took me 3 hours.
What... How? I'm an adventure game noob and it took me 3 hours.
Tizoc
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I think it's cuz I wanted to hear as much dialog form characters as possible and because it took me a little time to figure out some of the puzzles.
Try this: http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/35817/?
It's not limited to New Vegas or anything. The game has to support your native resolution in windowed mode but it works pretty well for me.
(I haven't tried it with Broken Age)
I'm not the biggest point-and-click adventure fan (I played like... 3? in all of my gaming life) but Broken Age was great. It had a really great flow, mainly due to the great writing and atmosphere. But also because the puzzles were rather simple. Being stuck is just no fun for me.
Vulcano's assistant
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When I was a 11-yo I had to walk into the interior of Caracas, use the subway, walk for various blocks across some of my most hated venues, and various dangerous locales, because I wanted a copy of Gauntlet Legends for N64. Installing steam for a game you want can't be that bad.
terrisus
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When I was 11 years old, I was busy playing the newly-released Star Fox for SNES.
And, 21 years later, I can still play that same copy of Star Fox.
I have no interest in participating in DRM services, which was one of the things I ensured would be possible before backing this game.
They need to hurry up and get the DRM-free versions out there.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
Well it must be because I link it to filmmaking. I'm just saying, if you were a backer, this is like missing the screening in the theater (of which you wouldn't really own the copy projected) waiting for the blu-ray to arrive.
Vulcano's assistant
Banned
Well some of the most important films in history are absolutely not commercial at all, so I suppose they really are different in that sense.
terrisus
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To be fair to Double-Fine, I suppose the Kickstarter page only promises "The finished game in all of its awesome glory DRM free on PC, Mac, and Linux" (with a delivery date of October 2012, but that's kind of its own issue). So, if they view Act 1 as not "The finished game," then there's that. Still disappointing though.
I believe they may have some sort of deal to be listed as a featured game on the Steam store for most of the month. May explain why they can't release a DRM-free version yet.
charlequin
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Yup.
I think it's extremely important and valuable for companies to release DRM-free versions of this software, and I'm glad that Kickstarted-backed titles have so frequently included that as a core element of their pitch. But people who want this really need to understand how much more logistically challenging (and expensive!) it is to provide and distribute DRM-free versions of something that's frequently updating. You're generally not going to see these happen during a beta or incomplete periods, and they usually won't be updated as frequently once they're out either.
If DRM-free is so important to someone that they aren't willing to even use an alternate service to play the game initially before filing away the unlocked copy later, they probably shouldn't be expecting to play the game the absolute moment it arrives.
Extra Sauce
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You should be thankful. The real pain begins with the wait for Act 2.
CecilRousso
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Seems to be selling quite steady on Steam. With the exception a few temporary deeper drop, it's been lingering around 20th-30th place since the release. Not sure how that translated into sold copies, but I would assume that it's quite good for a game that's not complete yet, and where 90k already had bought the game long before release.
SlowRevolution
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tim schafer should turn BEAST HOOKER into a real perfume line and turn that into a side-business
I don't get why you wouldn't just release your game DRM-free on Steam. That doesn't help the people who want to get it through a service that isn't Steam, but there's probably a group of people who previously would have waited for a Humble Store or GOG release that would play a DRM-free Steam version.
charlequin
Banned
Has anyone even checked whether the Steam version is DRM-free? Maybe it is!
(Usually the people who flip out about this sort of thing don't want to even install a client like Steam anyway.)
I just tried it. Broken Age doesn't want to start up on my laptop that doesn't have Steam installed
Extra Sauce
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Don't go full Shia.
Vert boil
Member
Nice.
You can download it from your humble bundle page. PC/Mac/Linux versions are available.
New sidequest as well - http://www.doublefine.com/forums/viewthread/13162/
Messofanego
Banned
Nice, now I can finally let my sister play this on her computer by herself rather than having to show the game to her from my Steam profile.
Fuz
Banned
For someone, it is.
I am among the people who dislike steam and DRM, so I waited till today...
Broken Age is finally out DRM free too for the backers, rejoice!
This is true, but I would like to point out that the decision to split the game in 2 parts came after the backing.
Maybe you're right, but then they shouldn't expect those people to back their projects.
MulderWasTaken
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From the latest kickstarter post, I had the impression that Act 2 is not even designed yet... And they plan to launch this year? Is that possible?
Madrugador
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Broken Age got cards? Nice.
Now I only need to wait for achievements and I'll play it again.
Now I only need to wait for achievements and I'll play it again.
Haunted
Member
Well, everything's in place with the engine and the asset pipelines. They can totally focus on producing content now.
But yeah, either the second act is even shorter than the first one or I foresee a delay incoming.
Though
they will be able to reuse some assets with minor changes going by the ending.
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Deleted member 22576
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Hey hey, I just got a 25% off broken age giftcard through steam which im happy to give to anyone who asks. It says its tradeable and expires on March14th, so hit me up! Its a fantastic game!
I've got some too, so I'll extend the same offer as Jtwo. Send me a PM if interested.
Got that too, bought the game, and I'd enjoy it more if it didn't randomly close while playing the Vella side, messing up my ability to continue or load the gsme from where I left off - I tend to gravitate toward her messed-up circumstances even after playing a fair bit with Shay.
Gonna try again tomorrow after running Windows Update again just in case.
Vert boil
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gamesindustry.biz interview with Schafer,
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...tay-afloat-in-a-pool-of-internet-twitter-hate
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...tay-afloat-in-a-pool-of-internet-twitter-hate
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Deleted member 22576
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I wonder if they're gonna try to charge the full 25$ on iOS.
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Deleted member 22576
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Awww, I don't think that's fair.
I guarantee that the voice acting was not "squandering the budget". Most of the actors are people who have been in previous Schafer-led projects and probably didn't ask a great deal for their appearances. Besides, they have business minded people working there too, they wouldn't want money wasted. The budget was much higher than the original scope called for, they're going to want to give value for money. Are you not pleased with what your $15 or however much gets you?
The first part of the game is barely four hours and has very simplistic puzzles and interaction. They didn't go over scope, they just wasted the money on superfluous stuff that wasn't needed.
You're deluded if you don't think they spend some serious bucks to get all that voice talent on board. Also, splitting the game up in two parts costs additional money. It's much more cost-efficient to do stuff (like voice recording sessions) in one go.
Sorry, but you're deluded if you think they did. Half the big names involved are friends of the company (Jack Black, Pendleton Ward) and others are well-known fans who personally wanted to be involved (Elijah Wood).
Anyone who looks at a company like Double Fine and thinks "Yeah, these guys would totally risk crippling their crowdfunded adventure game in exchange for some celebrity VO" clearly doesn't know as much about Double Fine as they think they do.
As for splitting the game, if you'd been watching the documentary you'd already know why it became necessary and wouldn't need to sit on the sidelines making up rubbish about it.
Making video games not an exact science - more at eleven.
faceless007
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The $300K budget would have only paid for a game a fraction of the scope of Broken Age, probably not much more than a Flash game with static art and a handful of screens and rooms and no voice acting. When the final amount came in, they expanded the scope and design accordingly. Would you have preferred they spend $300K on a barebones Flash adventure in two months and pocketed the rest of the funds as pure profit?
Experienced company overshoots by 300%, more at eleven.
I didn't think it should've been done by October 2012. But neither should they have thought that. It was still way overkill for what they were doing, and they could have used that extra money to push it out a bit faster.
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