Kickstarter for a new Tim Schafer adventure game project

[monkey0506]

Ah, don't worry, Nathan's just drunk again.

Just wait till he sobers up a bit and realizes that his "$15" was really "$150".

I'd like the poster and all that, but $100 might be a bit too steep for me ATM. I think I'll probably do $30 though.

[Anian]

I liked the joke about how at 100k they're gonna add strategic elements to the game but if it reaches 120k they're gonna take them away again (little Brutal legend humor...damn ps3 exlusive half strategy mess). 

Btw do you realize what this is? A high budget title that has sure profit (or if not profit per say, it keeps the company running and no publisher supervision...that's like an endangered species. Not only that but the financing was solved in probably less time than what would take for them to take out a loan from a bank or something.   
I'm just afraid that in the future this might become overused in some way.   

[RickJ]

'# Kickstarter's big moment: 2 projects earn $1 million on same day

[Kweepa]

Ahhh  You funny Steve 

I try!

[Bulbapuck]

Best. News. Ever.

I heard about this an hour ago, been walking around my appartement screaming "YES!!" to myself over and over

[Stupot]

It's now over 1.5M, which is great... but it suddenly occured to me that the bigger the budget is the more likely it will be that the game won't run on my shitty laptop...  :'(

[Eggie]

Pledge more, it can be PORTED to shitty laptops!

[Armageddon]

Pledge more, it can be PORTED to shitty laptops!

Just like it can be ported to shitty German.

[monkey0506]

shitty German

Crazy German fetishes. :

[Peder 🚀]

I've never seen a Kickstarter get funded this fast. Just goes to show you, people still love adventure games. I can't wait to, hopefully, get lost in a new world built by Ron Gilbert and Tim Shafer. I just hope it's not 3D.

This! Buuuut I'm sure it will be 3D. Not that they won't do a good job of it, but damn... can't help but daydream at the potential of a modern Gilbert/Schafer 2D adventure.

Reading Tim Schafer's latest tweet (https://twitter.com/#!/TimOfLegend/status/168471171480817664) it seems it will be a 2D game!

[Czar]

He makes hell of a use of 3D.

Guess I chose the right day to check up what's new in the AG community. I like this very much!

[Igor Hardy]

Schafer says that Costume Quest and Stacking had about $2 million budgets. I wonder if that means this was planned at an even smaller scale than those two, or simply something with cheaper graphics.

[Ryan Timothy B]

What I don't understand is just because he went over the planned $400,000 budget, doesn't mean the rest can't be profit.

[Igor Hardy]

That would be cheating. The money is raised for a specific cause - and making the company richer wasn't part of it.

[Anian]

That would be cheating. The money is raised for a specific cause - and making the company richer wasn't part of it.

Check out some of the tweets on Timoflegend account - Schafer mentions that Full Throttle cost $2.24 million dollars and DotT was 300k plus 300k for voices (which sounds kind of weird to be honest, or actually it makes uncomfortable to think how much "famous" actors are paid these days for games).
Now, I don't know what's gonna happen, but it seems the project got a good budget for complete funding of a regular length 2d point'n'click adventure game. And even though the budget seems to be just right, the fact is that that is just a preorder (you get a copy of the game if you give enough money), but they're gonna get more money when they start selling it so profit is gonna be made.
Not to mention that even if they don't sell one more copy, still they've got money to pay their workers for some time and keep them afloat, plus since they won't be publisher supervised, they could experiment and thus maybe get some projects coming their way in the future, especially since it's on Steam (and thus Valve)...

[Radiant]

What I don't understand is just because he went over the planned $400,000 budget, doesn't mean the rest can't be profit.

It does mean that the one party making a substantial profit is Kickstarter themselves. After all, they get 5% of all donations, and all they need to do is keep their servers running.

[OneDollar]

Been following this, but finally got around to pledging today. I would probably have bought the game anyway (now that it's certain to be made) but access to the documentaries swayed me.

One thing I wonder about is that when they proposed the idea it was obviously supposed to be a pretty small game. They've got a lot more money available than they were planning, but are they still planning to finish it for October? I'd rather see them make the most of the opportunity to make something like DotT rather than rush through an 'episode' length game that I can play on 20 different platforms.

[Ali]

I still haven't rustled up the cash (but I plan to) but I think a shorter game is a wiser idea. They'd be asking for trouble if they tried to create something too grand on what is relatively a pretty small budget.

If they produce a small but successful adventure game through kickstarter, then perhaps that makes publishing an adventure game on the scale of DoTT or Grim Fandango more realistic in the future.

[Jared]

Tim Schafer has posted a video update:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFKwplDBmgg&feature=youtu.be

Long and short of it, they're going to be making PC, Mac, Linux and smartphone versions; it will be fully voiced in English, text translated to French, Italian, German and Spanish; and there's going to be a closed beta for all the projects backers (including me!!!)

[Sughly]

Reading Tim Schafer's latest tweet (https://twitter.com/#!/TimOfLegend/status/168471171480817664) it seems it will be a 2D game!

GAAAAAASP!! Oh my... that's rather exciting. Not that I dont think they would do a good job with 3D, its just... 2D!!