Loading ...Double Fine Sets New Kickstarter Records
When publisher after publisher told him that adventure games were dead, legendary developer Tim Schafer didn't listen. As one of the creative forces behind games such as The Secret of Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Day of the Tentacle, Psychonauts, and numerous others, Schafer took to crowd sourced funding website Kickstarter in an attempt to prove the skeptics wrong. The goal was simple: reach $400,000 in pledged funding by March 13, via a Kickstarter campaign, and the San Francisco based developer would not only make (and self publish) a new point and click style adventure game, but would team up with 2 Player Productions to document the entire process, from concept to final product. If successful, Double Fine would be the first developer to fully fund a new video game via Kickstarter.
As it turns out, that was to be the first of many records Double Fine would break in the experiment - they reached their initial funding goal within 12 hours; setting records for having the highest number of backers in a 24 hour period, and the highest amount funded. As of this writing, with over a month left in their Kickstarter campaign, Double Fine has raised some $700,000 in crowd sourced funding toward their currently unnamed adventure game. Double Fine will be relying heavily on backer feedback during the course of this game's development, offering them a private forum and regular video updates, and promises to give everyone who has contributed at least $15 access to the game's beta, as well as the final finished product upon completion of the game.