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

[James]

I haven't been following the development as closely as all that, but I assume that "age" means "era" in this case, because otherwise it wouldn't make sense. Therefore it's a story about a time that's broken in some fashion. A bit dramatic, sure, but it does convey some small level of meaning.

James

[Frogacuda]

It's meant as a double entendre. It's a reference to both the fractured multiverse and to being a teenager stuck in that awkward time between childhood and adulthood.

[Frogacuda]

Trailer!

Looks purdy. Not super crazy about the puppet/cut-out animation, but it sure does look nice in stills.

[epmode]

Yeah, I'm sad that it's all vectory but considering how rarely sprite animation is used at high resolutions, I'm not surprised. Nice music.

[Rumpy]

I like what I see! Killer music too.

[cigsthecat]

Well that looks like garbage. Funding this was a mistake.

[Frogacuda]

Well that looks like garbage. Funding this was a mistake.

Are you seriously going to say that without hearing one line of dialog? I get that you're an animator, and the animation in this is kind of cheapy, but that seems to be jumping the gun a bit.

[Mzo]

hahahahaha

[Tain]

I'm not particularly pumped. I mean, I'll try it, but aesthetics are sort of a huge deal in this genre and I don't like the look. Which was my first worry about this whole thing, even, yet I still went in lol.

[Frogacuda]

I sort of wonder what people were expecting. They said it would look like a Nathan Stapley painting. And it does.

I really like the colors and the painterly rendering a lot, but the writing is really the make or break of an adventure games, so everything else is just kind of setting the stage.