http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/09/squee-schafer-gilberts-kickstarter-fund-for-adventure/

That's the guys behind adventure games like Monkey Island, and many other games.

Very cool, they've already gone past the $400,000 they needed!

They already have hit $400,000 from what I saw. I can totally read.... They got $100,000 in what 25 mins which is impressive.

I'm not surprised

I can't decide if I should go with the $110 option or just be satisfied with the cheapest $15 one. Oh well, still have plenty of days to decide

I'll probably go for the simple $15 one. Watching the game slowly develop with the monthly video updates, concept art and forum feedback will be interesting.


Wow, they've almost doubled the amount of money they had when I posted this thread. And the big publishers think nobody cares about old school adventure games anymore...

I'd love to contribute, but sadly I don't have access to any of the payment options.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure

In less than 24 hours. Very impressive.

He looks plenty funded, so I feel no need to give him anything. No offense to him or anything, he does make some awesome games. Costume Quest was enjoyable and had a half decent PC port too. I've already contributed some money to another kickstarter project. If anyone is curious, it's this one. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/599092525/the-order-of-the-stick-reprint-drive/posts

Squee!

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/02/09/double-fine-kickstarter/

$1,000,000. (Edit: and there are still 32 days to go! How much will they have raised by then?)

Hopefully in future we see more games funded this way. It's a good alternative to self-funding, bank funding and especially publisher funding.

I bet some companies -- we all know which ones I'm talking about... -- are kicking themselves for not thinking of this first.

Yep, was following yesterday when it was around $300,000. They needed $400,000, yet by the end of the day they surpassed $1m. Some quotes I'm quoting off Gareth Fouche (developer of Scars of War) which he quoted from anotherquote Twitter:

As long as it goes to the starving orphans with polio.

It's funding the arts.

There's already http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1344912-schafer-gilbert-doing-kickstarter-fund-for-new-adventure-game/

Oops. Oh... kay. /thread Sorry.

[A mod was kind enough to merge topics.]

It's at over $1,250,000 now, apparently.

My mind is in turmoil. One side thinks, "Yes, but what exactly are they making", the other thinks "Who cares?! It's going to be AWESOME!"

Double Fine's success has inspired Obsidian to post http://forums.obsidian.net/blog/1/entry-158-if-obsidian-kickstarter/ on their forum...

lol, and people think without IP no one will develop games because there's no money to be had.

I'll have to research this, but I would tempted to actually "invest" in their opportunities. Though the problem is an investment to them would probably be $100k+ which is something I can't do . Another thing is if it tanks then I would be out the money, but still these two are very well renowned.

Wow! goes to show the great following of this.

This will have an interesting effect on the industry.
https://twitter.com/#!/ChrisAvellone

Seems Avellone is interested by what has happened.

May be just my silly self, but this tweet is a bit interesting:

Or is that the tweet you were talking about?

I was talking about a few of them, like the hypothetical "If Obsidian did this what would you like too see ?" and the one you mentioned.

Either way, its making me a bit optimistic. Gamers may be able too get games we want to see, no worrying about publishers calling the shots. People loved PST, yet I doubt publishers would make a new one, but if gamers provided the moeny, they could make another, like people wnt too. Isometric, turn based, etc.

As a fan of alpha protocol (game was great imo, but didnt sell the best) this makes me somewhat excited. Obsidian did ask sega to allow a sequal. SEGA decided to say no, but kept the IP. If enough people were interested thre may be a sequal.
It may also make devs less reliant on publishers, that way they may ctually hold on to the IPs they make, avoiding a fate like X-com or syndicate.

And the massive interest in a Planescape Torment 2 crashed their forum for a while.