The return of the point-and-click adventure: Double Fine & Kickstarter

[Guynemer]

Double Fine Studios, headed by the gents who masterminded Day Of The Tentacle and Grim Fandango, amongst others, was trying to raise $400k to create a new point-and-click adventure since no big studio would fund one.

They hit their goal within eight hours.

It now stands at $1.5 million, with a month still to go.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/115746-Tim-Schafer-Raises-1-3-Million-Update-Again

[Dinner]

The internet actually has made the world a smaller place. In the 80's it would have been a lot harder for someone to market independent products like this or find investors to even get something like this off the ground. For once, the internet is fulfilling the promises made about it back in the day.

[Al B. Sure!]

Is it 1992?

[giblets]

That's nice. Maybe authors should try this.

[Dinner]

NPR was talking about something similiar for authors a few months ago and I believe I started a thread about it here. They self publish on the internet and either have readers pay a small fee to get an electronic copy of their book or they just do the shareware model where anyone can download it and then donate what they think the book was worth to them. There was a 18 year old girl from the upper midwest featured in the NPR report who made hundreds of thousands of dollars writing vampire love stories (think Twilight) which she self published on the internet.

It's funny because none of the publishers would publish her stuff but now that she did it all herself suddenly she's getting tons of offers from publishers.

[Boris Godunov]

Awesome.

Day of the Tentacle is still one of the best games ever created.

[Fake Boris]

[Guynemer]

Awesome.

Day of the Tentacle is still one of the best games ever created.

I have a slight preference for Grim Fandango, but really, between those two, there is no wrong answer.