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General News - Kickstarter to the Rescue

Discussion in 'Game/SP News & Comments' started by RPGWatch, May 29, 2015.

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    [​IMG]Gizmodo UK have published an article on how Kickstarter helped resurrect some long dormant genres, with a focus (obviously) on the games that did very well on Kickstarter.

    In February 2012, Double Fine announced they wanted to fund the development of an "old school adventure game" exclusively through Kickstarter. The studio is headed up by Tim Schafer, the creator of Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, and co-designer of Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle. Alongside Ron Gilbert, he's one of the most famous adventure game developers in the world.

    However, since completing Grim Fandango in 1998, Schafer had moved on from Adventure Games, not, he says, because he didn't want to make them but because - as he says in the video above - "If I were to go to a publisher right now and pitch an adventure game they'd laugh in my face."

    As far as publishers were concerned the point'n'click genre was dead. Without publisher backing, no big studio could make an adventure game.

    Schafer took to Kickstarter asking for $400,000. It made $3,336,371. It was the highest funded project in Kickstarter history and the second to have broken $1 million (a record that had only been set hours before Double Fine smashed it).

    Double Fine did more than show developers it could be done, it showed developers how it was done. "The conversation won't just be a one way street," Schafer says in the video above. "This is a game for adventure fans, funded by adventure fans, and we want to make it with adventure fans.​
     
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