Double Fine Adventure

[TheSlyMoogle]

Originally Posted by 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.

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"