Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter
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So, apparently, Tim and the others at Double Fine are planning on making a new adventure game. But instead of going for a publisher, they're asking for funding from the fans themselves!
Check it out:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure
Check it out:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure
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pledging either way.
Donated!!!
Picture of Ron Gilbert smiling.
Pledge $35,000 or more:
Undoctored picture of Ron Gilbert smiling.
"Pledge $20,000 for Madden 2013 and get to help walk John Madden to his car"
Im surprised a small royalty percentage wasn't included in the very large donations.
I decided I didnt wanna eat today and pledged 15 bucks for it. Can't wait to see what they come up with.
currently at 56, someone's going to be busy painting portraits
I think your totally right. With a month left, I wonder how high this is going to get. Jeez, they could probably fund psychonauts 2 without notch.
I wonder if any other studios are going to try kickstarter now. I can just see it, Madden 2013 kickstarter project.
Surely it's against the rules of Kickstarter for companies that already have
the capital (EA with Madden) to use it though?
So keen to see how much money they end up with and to see the project come along.
Though I'm in a place where you don't even have a fucking credit card I still found a way to pledge and I just wish I could pledge more.
Why? It's not like a million dollars is that big of a budget. They are going from a micro budget to a small budget.
Anyhow donated for the game copy tier.
I wonder though, with kickstarters, I thought the idea was you were supposed to be paid back if the project succeeded?
Nope, you get your money back if it fails to reach its goal. In 32 days everyone who pledged will get charged the amount they pledged. When I get home I'm pledging $40, because I've paid that much for DOTT & Full Throttle, they both were totally worth it.
Hopefully a sign of good things to come!
In the face of insults like: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/02/why-dont-more-game-developers-see-royalties-from-their-work.ars
I forgot!
I need to donate!
edit: haha, $1200k already!
They could make another game, and put it into the game!
Are you joking or is there something wrong with you? More money means bigger budgets means better artists getting to spend longer making shit pretty. Also time for testing. Maybe even make an adventure game engine that they'll release as open source later (that would be awesome).
But I'm going to go ahead and assume you're joking.
Psychonauts was something like $15 million in production costs I believe, so there'd be a bit more funding required.
Still, there's a whole more month left on that kickstarter
20 million usd.
Lets say mojang gets around $12 from each sold copy of minecraft after taxes, putting taxes at a very generous 50%, they'll require around ~1666666 sold copies for that.
At a rate of 9000 copies sold per day, they'll have the budget required after half a year of minecraft sales.
Needless to say though, they've almost already sold 5 million copies, it's very likely mojang has the money to fund psychonauts 2, and with PR-machine that is minecraft and the community, it wouldn't be too far fetched that it'll sell well.
That I would agree with, and even after this kickstarter when the game is finished it'll hit steam and such, further generating more sales.
He's just jealous ;P
Hopefully, they do make it, and no publisher gets involved. Last thing is a P2 FPS game.