Broken Age (formerly Double Fine Adventure) (Finally complete!)

You are the worst.

If it were Capcom doing this to fund Mega Man Legends 3, he'd be declaring them gods.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

It's always a big deal when an established name blows off the traditional publishing paradigm because they don't have to. Same reason it was a big deal that Louis CK did his last special as an independent download, or when Radiohead put out In Rainbows with a "pay what you want" model or whatever.

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To be honest, based on what he said about Psychonauts 2, he may have had to. Still awesome none the less.

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Originally Posted by Thief Silver

To be honest, based on what he said about Psychonauts 2, he may have had to. Still awesome none the less.

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Well he has to to make this game; the game he wanted. But clearly a small game that will occupy a quarter of their staff for 9 months is neither necessary nor sufficient for the survival of the company.

It was a play to leverage their name and the equity it hold with fans to achieve greater creative control (and to give the fans the game they've been bitching for for a long time).

If I was Yu Suzuki, I'd be paying close attention right now.

Yu Suzuki lol

Adventure games lol

I love everything about this.

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Originally Posted by Hero

Kickstarter existed well before Double Fine used it and it was always as viable then as it is now. Just like "pay what you want" or direct digital distro.

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There has never been a kickstarter project of any kind to raise a million dollars, and Double Fine looks like they will do that in 24 hours. There has never been a kickstarter game to raise more than $175,000 total ever and this did that in about 3 hours. This is so completely beyond what has been done with this model before, and it legitimizes it in a new way.

brb making a kickstarter to fund my education.

GOD DAMN, 500k since I checked last night! So much for there being no market for adventure games. Of course, I imagine a large number of pledges were made by people that have grown frustrated with the way developers are treated by the current industry business model. The people have certainly spoken.

Feels good to be part of this.