Double Fine Adventure

[Jason1]

Has anyone else heard about this? Double Fine (responsible for Psychonauts and Brutal Legend, as well as more recent smaller downloadable stuff), is working on a community funded adventure game.

Most notable, is that Tim Schafer is the man behind Double Fine, an Adventure gaming genius, the man behind Full Throttle, the Escape from Monkey Island series, and Grim Fandango, among other adventure games. There is a video that explains their goals which I suggest you watch here: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure

I have not pledged any money yet, but I am seriously considering it. I am a HUGE fan of Adventure games.

[BreakABone]

I donated 15 bucks just to be part of the experiment.

It is an interesting development in gaming.

[Combine 017]

When I get more money id like to contribute. I havent played any of their bigger games but I love the dlc games they have.

[Jason1]

Well I just donated. I feel like even if it ends up sucking or being really short, its only $15. Plus, I owe them one. Grim Fandango is one of my top 5 favorite games ever.

[The Germanator]

Yeah, this set a new-record for Kickstarter by getting $1 million in donations in 24 hours. Pretty amazing considering they were looking for $400,000 in over a month. Haven't contributed yet, but I'm planning on it.

[TheSlyMoogle]

I've played Psychonauts, Brutal Legend and Costume Quest.

Didn't enjoy Brutal Legend at all, even Jack Black couldn't save it.

[Professor S]

How does this work? Are those submitting money investors, or are they really donations? If these are donations to create a private enterprise, Kickstarter is basically a place for fools to part with their money.

[BreakABone]

How does this work? Are those submitting money investors, or are they really donations? If these are donations to create a private enterprise, Kickstarter is basically a place for fools to part with their money.

How so?

In this case, its essentially pre-ordering a game and using the money to fund development of said title.

[The Germanator]

How does this work? Are those submitting money investors, or are they really donations? If these are donations to create a private enterprise, Kickstarter is basically a place for fools to part with their money.

Yeah, as BaB said, you don't donate unless you are satisfied with the "reward" that you get, as described in the right sidebar of the project's page. In this case, $15 gets you the completed game and so on...

And for example, if the project had not been funded, your credit card doesn't get charged and no one gets any money.

Also, Amazon is affiliated with Kickstarter and they take a certain percentage of the total fund. They'll do pretty well with this one.

[Combine 017]

How does this work? Are those submitting money investors, or are they really donations? If these are donations to create a private enterprise, Kickstarter is basically a place for fools to part with their money.

So youre pretty much saying donating to charities and stuff is for fools?

Cause I totes agree, just a waste of money, but this is donating to create something beautiful.

[Vampyr]

How does this work? Are those submitting money investors, or are they really donations? If these are donations to create a private enterprise, Kickstarter is basically a place for fools to part with their money.

It's a donation, but you get a reward based on how much you donate.

In this case, you get the game.

[Combine 017]

I havent looked into it much and dont feel like clicking the link at the top, but is this an internets game or is it on disk? If its on disk, do they mail it to you? Or I could see it being on Steam or something like that.

[Vampyr]

I havent looked into it much and dont feel like clicking the link at the top, but is this an internets game or is it on disk? If its on disk, do they mail it to you? Or I could see it being on Steam or something like that.

The finished game in all of its awesome glory on Steam, exclusive access to the PC Beta on Steam, access to the video series, and access the private discussion community.

.

[Combine 017]

Nailed it!

[Professor S]

Ok, getting a full game for $15 makes sense then. In my mind, if someone is creating something for profit then you should get something in return if you give them money.

And this case is nothing like charity. Charities do not operate for profit, and they help people. Double Fine makes video games. It's more like handing $5 to Starbucks and not getting a latte in return. I'm curious if anyone will do a social experiment and basically ask for donations for a new car, with the return being a photo of the person in the new car if they donate over $5 and the offer reaches its threshold.

[Vampyr]

Ok, getting a full game for $15 makes sense then. In my mind, if someone is creating something for profit then you should get something in return if you give them money.

And this case is nothing like charity. Charities do not operate for profit, and they help people. Double Fine makes video games. It's more like handing $5 to Starbucks and not getting a latte in return. I'm curious if anyone will do a social experiment and basically ask for donations for a new car, with the return being a photo of the person in the new car if they donate over $5 and the offer reaches its threshold.

I don't think you'd be able to do that on kickstarter, at least. Pretty sure Kickstarter has to approve projects before they are listed, and some like "buy me a car" wouldn't get approved.

[TheSlyMoogle]

Ok, getting a full game for $15 makes sense then. In my mind, if someone is creating something for profit then you should get something in return if you give them money.

And this case is nothing like charity. Charities do not operate for profit, and they help people. Double Fine makes video games. It's more like handing $5 to Starbucks and not getting a latte in return. I'm curious if anyone will do a social experiment and basically ask for donations for a new car, with the return being a photo of the person in the new car if they donate over $5 and the offer reaches its threshold.


I can't believe you guys have never heard of kickstarter before. Jesus.

How kickstarter works:

People come up with projects or ideas such as:

Youtube band wants to make an album but needs 20,000 to do the studio stuff and print the initial run of cds.

So they submit the project to kickstarter if it gets approved they then have to come up with a series of rewards for donations and set a goal amount.

So if the goal amount is 20000 they then have to set a time limit of how long it will take to get the money. Say 2 months.

If by the end of the 2 months they have enough people pledged to donate 20,000 or more then the donations all go through. Even if they only asked for 20k if the donations go above that say to even 60k they still get all the money.

If by the end of the time period they were only donated say... 19.5k then they get nothing, the money doesn't get taken out of people's bank accounts or anything.

So hopefully now you understand Kickstarter a little better.

Also Vampyr was right, they don't let people post things like "Buy me a new car"

[Professor S]

In that case, I think they need to find a better word than donations. When I donate something, I'm not expecting anything in return, but investment doesn't work either. Contribution?

[BreakABone]

I can't believe you guys have never heard of kickstarter before. Jesus.

How kickstarter works:

People come up with projects or ideas such as:

Youtube band wants to make an album but needs 20,000 to do the studio stuff and print the initial run of cds.

So they submit the project to kickstarter if it gets approved they then have to come up with a series of rewards for donations and set a goal amount.

So if the goal amount is 20000 they then have to set a time limit of how long it will take to get the money. Say 2 months.

If by the end of the 2 months they have enough people pledged to donate 20,000 or more then the donations all go through. Even if they only asked for 20k if the donations go above that say to even 60k they still get all the money.

If by the end of the time period they were only donated say... 19.5k then they get nothing, the money doesn't get taken out of people's bank accounts or anything.

So hopefully now you understand Kickstarter a little better.

Also Vampyr was right, they don't let people post things like "Buy me a new car"

I think this is the OTHER benefit of this Double Fine stuff is it brings action to KickStarter on a major level.

Yeah, its been used for quite some time, but this is the first time to my knowledge is has really gotten major coverage in any field.

[The Germanator]

In that case, I think they need to find a better word than donations. When I donate something, I'm not expecting anything in return, but investment doesn't work either. Contribution?

Well, technically the word Kickstarter uses is "backing the project." You can choose the amount you want to "back" a project. Honestly, the idea is pretty self-explanatory, I don't think the wording matters that much.

[TheSlyMoogle]

Yeah kickstarter uses the word backers. They ask you to help fund the project.

Also earl, kickstarter got a ton of coverage on cnn a while back when julia nunes used it to fund her latest album.

[Fox 6]

Hit 2 million.

[Jason1]

Is that enough for a sequel to Grim Fandango?

[Acebot44]

Just as an update, Doublefine ended up raising more than 3mil. I pledged.

Also, Wasteland 2 (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2) had 380k when I checked yesterday, and, 24 hours later, already reached their goal of 900k.


I can't wait to see what effects this new funding model will have on game development.