This is new developments.

It is, yes. One thing that would worry me is them starting production on this so late in the console cycle. I would hate to see a situation where they have to completely rebuild their game engine half way into production because of new consoles dropping.

I meant that I posted the very same thing to the Upcoming Games thread. None the less, Notch is pretty cool for offering that much money.

*Wanders over to check*

You edited that in after I read it.

This is new developments.

But I edited it in before you posted it here, so ha!

But I have no obligation to check threads with no new posts, so ha!

Well dangit.

Tim posted a video update.

That was new developments.

But development hasn’t started yet!

You've guys heard about Chris Avellone wanting to make Planescape sequel/spiritual succesor with his Obsidian Entertainment and Brian Fargo wanting to make Wasteland (Fallout's precursor) sequel with his inXile Entertainment, all kickstarter-funded? I'm starting to be afraid that if projects start at the same time fans will not have enough money :(

Haha, I love the level of antipathy in the comments.

Fact. PC gamers love hating things.

Somewhat sad it won't be on the 360, as that tends to be my platform of choice, but I understand the reasoning behind it not being there, so I'll play it on Steam.

Somewhat justified. Notch's announcement was a complete and utterly shameless publicity stunt and put Schafer in a very awkward situation.

I should clarify that I don’t disagree. Everything about Notch these days gets under my skin.

They said that the more money they get, the more platforms they'll port it to. So, given that they've almost hit 5x their goal, you may be in luck.

They know you're hiding your last savings for a rainy day deep inside your teddy bear under your bed, away from them, OANST.

Sucks that Kickstarter is US only and as far as I know there aren't really that many great UK equivalents besides WeFund. I put a pledge in for a match 3 flash game but not a penny so far. I guess if you have the most fantastic idea in the world and sell it well, you'll get rich. But I'm not there yet.

Maybe it's not that about the idea alone, maybe the presentation wasn't good enough to encourage ppl to pay

I would like to think so, but it's probably impossible. Microsoft doesn't let anything that isn't made using their indie game software on their service without a publisher, and for Microsoft to consider you a publisher you have to meet many requirements (one of which is having a significant amount of money on hand). Double Fine is self publishing this, and have so far been unable to convince Microsoft to consider them as a publisher. I know this because Microsoft removed Psychonauts from the XBox Originals store when publishing rights reverted back to Double Fine. Double Fine has been trying for almost a year to get it back on, and so far has been unsuccessful.

Microsoft really suck. Just putting that out there.

I agree in principal, but I still prefer playing games on the 360. At this point, it's probably just because that's where all my shit is.

Fair enough. I've got no interest in giving you a load of arguments you've heard before.

They've reached 2 million, and still going strong.

Damn. What kind of adventure game would cost that much to produce?

Full Throttle, according to Tim (including current inflation)

Full Throttle cost 2.2 when inflation is factored in, so yeah. It's expensive to make games.

35 minutes!

I thoroughly enjoyed that.

An update!



Edit: Oh and bloopers from the first video about the project:

Last update.

Almost too late but I did it! I'm getting the Special edition box! :D

$3,445,355.00. Pretty good haul.

Fuuuuuuuck.

Procrastinated too much?

I thought I should mention that I now know things about this game that the rest of you don't. Why is that? Because I'm a backer, bitches.

I know something you don't know.
I know something you don't know.

Who cares? If anyone doesn't know it, he'll see it later.

I should mention that I don't really care.