Developer Double Fine has in less than a day more than 600,000 dollar retrieved from a crowdsourcingwebsite. The developer wants to use the money for a new adventure game. The creators wanted to 400,000 dollar get.
The oldschool point-and-click adventuregame will by a small team under the guidance of developers Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert to be made, without interference from a publisher. The game would be within 6 to 8 months for pc to appear via the downloadplatform Steam, able to read on their Kickstarterpagina. The intention is that steungevers via a forum say in regards to features, design and other features of the game. At the steungevers hear big names like Minecraft developer Markus Persson, 3D Realms ceo George Broussard and actress Felicia Day.
Double Fine has enlisted the help of production house ‘2 Player Productions to make a documentary about the development process. The documentary, in monthly episodes to be released to the people who support the project.
Kickstarter is a crowdsourceplatform that allows anyone to develop a project or idea to work out and ‘by the people’ to get sponsorship. In certain amounts gives the owner of the project, a reward, or ‘pledge’ to the steuner. In the case of Double Fine Adventure will get anyone who is fifteen or more dollar deposits, a copy of the game and early access to the beta. For bigger rewards, there must be more money to be poured. The full list of pledges is available on the website of Double Fine.
Tim Schafer is a veteran in the game industry. He worked in the early nineties, with Gilbert worked together at LucasArts and games like Secret of Monkey Island, Full Throttle, Grim Fandango and Day of the Tentacle on his name.