Here's something interesting. Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert, the creative heads behind the old LucasArts adventures games, want to make another adventure. Lacking a publisher for it, they decided to fund it with donations, and it turns out to be a ridiculous success.

They said they needed $400,000 and within 15 hours they got almost $700,000. At this rate, this is probably going to biggest-budget Adventure game I can remember. Depending on the size of the donation, there are rewards like the game (for $15 and higher, via Steam) or signed posters or your name in the credits.

The fund raising is open for another month. If you enjoyed Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, Day of the Tentacle & co., it might be worth a look. I'm so excited

Link to kickstart page.

Project video.

Edit:
By now, they set a new record on the platform. They've taken in twice the needed amount, and it just doesn't stop. Here's an article. They'll get a couple of millions. This is crazy.

 

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Now, I wish I could raise that much in a day. <_<

 

It's over 1.6 million by now.

Tim's been twittering a lot. What I found interesting were the numbers he pulled up -- Day of the Tentacle cost 600K in 1993 (incidentally, did any of you young whippersnappers even play that? God I feel old), that's about a million today. So he's got a really decent budget for an Adventure already. He's also confirmed a Mac port (for anyone that cares), and a German version

So yeah, really psyched. This year's already a great year as far as modern Adventures go -- Deponia, Chronicles of Zerzura, Face Noir, Geheimakte 3 ... and now this will be the crowning piece of awesome.

 

Interview with Tim Schafer, about the game and Kickstarter. It's also got some insight into how publishing a game works. It's no wonder we only get carbon copies of a few game types anymore.

And you just knew it's Tim fucking Schafer, so you couldn't expect any normal interview. He was at a conference, ganked the iPad of a co-worker and hid in the bathroom to do the interview. The interview abruptly ends when the co-worker suddenly needs to use the bathroom :lol:

 

Well. Clearly, you should feel ancient, in that case

Also, since Schafer declared that nowadays, Adventures exists in our dreams, our memories, and in Germany, I thought I'd try to see what of our little paradise is available elsewhere Turns out you can get Lost Horizon on Steam. It's a good representation of what point&click looks like today, I think. The plot is Indiana Jones style -- including the 30's setting, the Nazis and the quest for a mythical object. There's also a demo available.

So yeah, a rec (if you haven't played it yet) if you like combining objects to get other objects to solve funny problems like how to rig the olympic games in Berlin, a really decent story, and a soundtrack that is now stuck in my head. Again.


Regarding the original topic: Tim Schafer put up a new video, mainly confirming platforms and languages in the game. Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, English voice acting thanks to the bigger budget plus some subtitles on other languages.