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

I love MI2's ending. You guys are silly.

But yeah, I think I might like part 3 the best, in spite of the awful ending and the not-as-incredible-as-part-2's soundtrack.

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Originally Posted by bVork

I think Tain is more worried about the fan input, which can lead to two different problems. Fans can be retarded and not know that what they think they want is terrible, or all of their diverse and creative ideas can be puréed into a generic slurry. Remember when Yoshi ran that "TNL's favourite games" poll? The usual suspects from every top ten list ever appeared in really high positions, because of all the diversity in what people put as their absolute favourites and the relative homogony of the lower portions of everyone's lists.

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Aside from asking the fans if they were interested in a game like this being made Double Fine hasn't at all said the fans would have any input in to the development itself. Buyer beware type scenario IMO.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out. I think Brutal Legend sold like 215,000 copies in the first month and a 1.5 million copies total.

If they can match that first months sales with the basic 15$ donations, they will have collected 3,225,000. However, the average donation is about 38$s, so it might be closer to 7,927,634

If they can at least match the number of Psychonauts first month sales of 100,000 units, they will get around 3,800,000.

Don't be surprised if they pull in at least 3 mill in donations.

Donations have already slowed down a lot. I expect to see this cap out somewhere between 2 and 3 million. But that's still an awful lot.

I think the fan input might be in the form of few-and-far-between A/B polls. I hope people are level-headed about this though. But you have the odd crazed shareholder...

They're not shareholders, though. I have a feeling that realization may end up pissing some people off. This game will not end up being what every individual person wanted, it'll be what Tim Shafer wanted.

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Originally Posted by Drewbacca

Aside from asking the fans if they were interested in a game like this being made Double Fine hasn't at all said the fans would have any input in to the development itself.

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Watch the video. I'm not saying that they'll completely redesign the game based on fan suggestions but fans will absolutely have input.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

In fact, I think major publishers have as much to gain from this as anyone. Suddenly questions like "Should we bring Mother 3 to the US" don't have to be these risky endeavors to speculate over. A petition doesn't mean shit to a major publisher who has to put money on the line, but this gives people a voice in a way that's going to carry water with a prospective publisher.

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This. A million times this.

Big or small, a creator likes when people put their money where their mouths are. It's one thing to say you'd like a new adventure game, or send a petition around. To be willing to throw down some cash upfront because you believe in the concept...? I mean, it's the original spirit of investment. Most days, those who invest today are looking at the money side and logistics far more than what is being done and so are always looking for the safe bet. If nothing else, this stuff shows that people can be passionate enough about a concept or product that its intrinsically worth the investment.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

Donations have already slowed down a lot. I expect to see this cap out somewhere between 2 and 3 million. But that's still an awful lot.

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I think we'll see a second surge IF someone feels this is important enough to make the national news.

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Originally Posted by Fe 26

I think we'll see a second surge IF someone feels this is important enough to make the national news.

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What fucking planet do you live on?