Tim Schafer and Double Fine to develop game with Kickstarter funding

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All money raised will go to make the game and documentary better. Additional money means it can appear on more platforms, be translated into more languages, have more music and voice, and an original soundtrack for the documentary, and more!

Over a six-to-eight month period, a small team under Tim Schafer’s supervision will develop Double Fine’s next game, a classic point-and-click adventure.  Where it goes from there will unfold in real time for all the backers to see.

I really love the idea behind this unorthodox experiment, and I’m glad it got the funding it needed (and more) — being Tim effing-Schafer doesn’t hurt, either. It’s a totally different model wherein gamers pre-fund a project (purchase before completion) as opposed to post-fund (purchase after completion). Now everyone knows what’s it’s like to be an investor. Although it does happen that investments never yield any fruits of labor, I’ve got faith that Tim and his team will deliver the goods.

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