Double Fine's new adventure game shatters Kickstarter records

[troydude6]

Less than 24 hours after its creation, the Double Fine Adventure Kickstarter drive has broken the $1 million mark.
That's more than double their $400,000 goal, and well beyond Kickstarter's 24-hour fundraising record.

Source: Kickstarter

Source: Kotaku

 

[Veho]

You should mention that the drive was to finance the development of a new point-and-click adventure game (and not, say, Psychonauts 2).


And it's not a bad deal. Pledging $15 gets you a copy of the game once it's released (sort of a very very early preorder), access to the Steam beta, and access to monthly video updates on the development progress. I'd say it's worth it.

 

[RupeeClock]

This sort of activity is what makes for an entitled captive audience, look at Minecraft and all the fans that are very demanding for a better quality product they likely didn't receive, just for their $10 Alpha purchase.

How did this all kick off? Did Notch just whisper someone on twitter and the donations exploded?
The goddamned speeddemosarchive speedrun-athon only raised 149 thousand dollars for charity over 5 days, and provided some entertaining skillful playthroughs of fan-favourite games.

 

[Veho]

Did Notch just whisper someone on twitter and the donations exploded?

What does Notch have to do with it?

 

[RupeeClock]

Did Notch just whisper someone on twitter and the donations exploded?

What does Notch have to do with it?

I don't know, I thought maybe someone this thing got the attention it did because of Notch.
You tell me, how did Double Fine get a million dollars in donations in 24 hours? Who exposed them?

 

[Veho]

Word of mouth.

 

[Clarky]

Did Notch just whisper someone on twitter and the donations exploded?

What does Notch have to do with it?

I don't know, I thought maybe someone this thing got the attention it did because of Notch.
You tell me, how did Double Fine get a million dollars in donations in 24 hours? Who exposed them?

Think i think somewhere Notch did donate 10 grand to this project, so you may not be far off.

 

[Gahars]

The game is actually just an interactive tour of the mansion you're buying for Tim Schafer.

Seriously, though, this is pretty wild. I think it will be interesting to see where this all goes next; for smaller scale projects, publishers may become obsolete in a world where smart guys with great ideas can get their funding from those interested in the game.

...Or it could end up meaning nothing. Who knows?

 

[CYatta]

Did Notch just whisper someone on twitter and the donations exploded?

What does Notch have to do with it?

I don't know, I thought maybe someone this thing got the attention it did because of Notch.
You tell me, how did Double Fine get a million dollars in donations in 24 hours? Who exposed them?

Tim Schafer and Double Fine's been around a lot longer than Mojang and notch and has a following aswell. Especially fans of the game genre in which they're basing their new game on. It's fair to assume it funded itself.

Think I read about it on Joystiq too.

 

[Aia]

Pretty sure I came across it on Kickstarter itself when it was at around ~30k. Didn't think too much of it until I caught up on Dirt Nap and realized that it was the same Double Fine. =P

Being linked on Penny Arcade probably didn't hurt public awareness either.

 

[Veho]

It's over 2 million