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Posts Tagged ‘Double Fine Adventure’

First Trailer for Double Fine's Adventurous 'Broken Age'

Thursday, March 28th, 2013

Last night at the GDC Choice Awards, Double Fine's Tim Schafer revealed the first trailer for Broken Age. In case you haven't heard, that's the name of the game that the studio's record-breaking Double Fine Adventure crowdfunding drive has become.

From what we know about it so far, Broken Age is a point-and-click adventure game about a boy and girl living parallel lives on different worlds. The girl is to be an unwilling sacrifice to a terrible monster, the boy lives alone on a spaceship and from those simple beginnings… adventure ensues.

The game's also picked up a website to go along with the new name and footage. We haven't heard anything new about the status of the planned iOS release of Broken Age, but we'll be keeping our ear to the ground for more details in the weeks and months to come.

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Double Fine's Adventure Game Funding Drive Closes

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

About a month ago, Double Fine asked video game fans to fund a $400,000 adventure game that'll see a release across PC and iOS. That campaign closed yesterday. In the end, it gathered over three million dollars from 87,142 backers. It also smashed records, and gave the independent studio some decent mainstream coverage in the process.

Basically, it worked. Fans will get their adventure game. On a Ustream feed that Double Fine led alongside the countdown until the end of the crowd-funded project, Tim Schafer said that this has been "an amazing experience," and acknowledged the outpour of love it has received from its fans.

Now the hard part starts. From what we understand, this is a from-scratch project; you won't see a game anytime soon, and we think it's doubtful that the mobile version will see the light of day until after the release of the game on PC. If you're a backer, on the other hand, you get access to behind-the-scenes commentary as the game is created. That'll ease the pain. Probably.

Double Fine has a lot of people to make happy with this one since this project will be made with fan money, but the pressure is on the backers, too. They'll be a part of the decision-making process as pre-production ramps up. Now, get to work!

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The Double Fine Adventure is Coming to iOS After All

Wednesday, February 15th, 2012

Last week, Double Fine Productions, led by industry icon Tim Schafer, made headlines all over the world when they put up a Kickstarter project with the intent of crowd funding the production of a new adventure game that harkens back to some of the classics of the 90s, some of which Mr. Schafer himself had a hand in creating. They initially were asking for $400,000 to fund the project, and if they exceeded that goal then the extra money would go to bringing the game to additional platforms beyond the PC.

Well, it took just a matter of hours for them to reach that goal, and they far exceeded it, becoming the fastest Kickstarter project to reach a million dollars in history (and ironically, only the 2nd ever to reach a million, with the first just happening a few hours before Double Find reached the milestone themselves). As of right now, the project is sitting at nearly 1.8 million dollars.

So, hooray! The project received more than quadruple what they originally needed, so an iOS version should be in the bag, right? Well, we weren't so sure, as just yesterday an update on the Double Fine Kickstarter page had some ambiguous wording that made it sound like an iOS port wasn't exactly a sure thing just yet.

Well, I guess we weren't the only ones confused by the wording of that update, as today a new video has been posted to their Kickstarter page where Tim Schafer himself goes on to confirm some details of the upcoming adventure game. Among those details is confirmation that an iOS and Android version of the game will be part of the plan. We'll of course be following the development of this new endeavor from Double Fine and will bring you any new information as it happens.

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Double Fine Asks For Kickstarter Support With New Adventure Game, Totally Gets It

Thursday, February 9th, 2012

This is neat. Double Fine, the creators of Brutal Legend and, most recently, a swarm of lovable and unique downloadable titles like Iron Brigade and Costume Quest, is asking its fans via Kickstarter to donate a total of $400,000 towards the production of a brand new point-and-click adventure. It's a title that'll be created by "a small team" and one of the adventure game genre's most influential developers, Tim Schafer, highly regarded for his work on The Secret of Monkey Island and its sequel, and his lead role on Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle, and Grim Fandango.

The fans have answered, too. In under ten hours the project has received well over half a million dollars in backing. And with over 30 more days to go still, you almost have to assume that Double Fine will be forced to use dollar bills as toilet paper to rid itself of all the extra cash it's going to receive.

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