Double Fine Adventure Crosses $2.5 Million In Kickstarter Funding

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."

Comments

Schafer wins the Internet

[DWMorse]

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

Re:Schafer wins the Internet

[Xemu]

I agree. I believe my investment is in safe hands.

Re:Schafer wins the Internet

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It appears seemingly more responsible than what Wall Street has been doing at my money.

Crowd-funding

[alexgieg]

Crowd-funding is how entertainment will work in the the not too distant future, as far as creators are concerned:

0) Start by making something good, although probably for free, thus starting to build a reputation;
1) Offer to do something, for money, proportional to your reputation;
2) Get funded by the crowd;
3) Deliver a good end result, and with it improve your reputation;
4) Loop back to 1 as much as you need or want;
5) Retire.

Copyright? What for?

Re:Crowd-funding

[Anonymous Coward]

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

[alexgieg]

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?

There's also a Tactical Shooter!

[airfoobar]

A few of days ago I submitted a story about another high-profile game creator following Schafer's lead by using Kickstarter, but /. mods chose to post ads about Apple TV instead (because obviously Apple needs the help more than an indie team).

"..an independent team led by Chistian Allen (lead designer/creative director for games like Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Halo: Reach) has launched a Kickstarter for a new hardcore tactical shooter."

Their PR is nowhere as good as Schafer's, but tactical shooters deserve some love too!

Again Kickstarter is used to rob the commons

[Anonymous Coward]

2.5 Million? And we'll never own the game.

For 2.5 Million we could fund the same effort or more and enrich the commons with a high quality opensource game that would allow a wide array of derivative. Instead the commons is robbed and is given a proprietary game.

Slashdot should not be posting kickstarters for software and other things that aren't free/libre open source licensed or creative commons licensed.

Use kickstarter to compensate creative people for their effort, but pay them to contribute to the commons as well.

Re:Again Kickstarter is used to rob the commons

[Anrego]

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.