Double Fine Adventure Crosses $2.5 Million In Kickstarter Funding

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Double Fine Adventure Crosses $2.5 Million In Kickstarter Funding

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday March 11, 2012 @04:11AM from the people-pay-for-things-they-want dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Double Fine Adventure, the crowd-funded adventure game from Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert (of Monkey Island fame), just crossed the $2.5 million mark in funding on Kickstarter. So far, about 73,000 enthusiastic backers have contributed an average of $35 dollars each, with 3 extravagant backers going as far as to contribute $10,000 (earning them a lunch with Schafer and Gilbert, among other goodies). The total sum is over 6 times the amount Schafer and Gilbert were initially hoping to raise ($400,000). Schafer released a few pictures showing what he's doing with all the money. The project has received attention in mainstream media (sort of), with NPR's Morning Edition covering the story."

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Schafer wins the Internet by DWMorse · 2012-03-11 04:15 · Score: 5, Insightful

Click the pictures link, it's worth your time.

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1. Re:Schafer wins the Internet by 0100010001010011 · 2012-03-11 04:43 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  It appears seemingly more responsible than what Wall Street has been doing at my money.
Re:Crowd-funding by Anonymous Coward · 2012-03-11 04:55 · Score: 5, Insightful

Exactly. Copyright isn't the demon here, it's the middle-men that have taken over the administration of creative works at the EXPENSE of the creator.
Copyright isn't inherently evil, but the corporations and interests that are far removed from the average creator's interests are twisting copyright to make it something negative to the consumer.
Re:Crowd-funding by alexgieg · 2012-03-11 05:05 · Score: 5, Insightful

To keep other people from making something better using your building blocks and leaving you out of it.
The (alleged) purpose of copyright is to promote the progress of arts. The moment it starts keeping other people from making something better, i.e., starts PREVENTING the progress of arts, its whole purpose becomes null and void. So, again: copyright? What for?

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Re:Again Kickstarter is used to rob the commons by Anrego · 2012-03-11 05:44 · Score: 5, Insightful

Or we could use the money to cure cancer!
Seriously though, people spend the money on whatever they want. There's always something better they could have spent the money on, but things don't work that way. If they did we'd all be giving all our money to whatever society deemed the absolute most important cause.
As for turning slashdot into a church of RMS .. bleh.