This is the thread for LucasArts alumni/DoubleFine/Telltale games: Psychonauts, Costume Quest, Brutal Legend, Deathspank, Sam and Max, etc.

agreed on the opening cutscene though, it is just astounding that designers capable of crafting such a beautiful game with hints placed at exactly the right points can't see how preferable it would be to have a 5-second cut scene and then plonk you into the action

After the success of Costume Quest, Doublefine aims for the toddler market:

http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/10/10/sesame-street-once-upon-a-monster-video-preview

CQ now on Steam

I think Schafer & co. should just write jokes for other, better games at this point

tough but fair

@notch Markus Persson
@TimOfLegend Let's make Psychonauts 2 happen.

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn51/Gunmonkey36/notchquote-2.png

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-02-07-doublefine-tim-and-markus-are-talking-about-psychonauts-2

Cracked open Brutal Legend this weekend. Man, it's sad, because you can see them trying so hard with the game, trying to fit together these different gameplay ideas - really wonderfully going all the way with the metal theme - but it takes all the bad bits of Psychonauts and does an even worse job. I'm basically forcing myself through the game to get to the dialogue and cutscenes, which are really funny, but man, I feel like I'm back in the mid-'90s. I mean, who makes an open world game without a compass or onscreen map? Why did this need to be open world at all? Or RTS??

brutal legend sucked unfortunately.
stacked was not fun.
I missed trenched
but goddamn i will buy psychonauts 2 DAY ONE if that comes out. top ten game for me.

unless it's called PSYCHO 2: MEAT CIRCUS

especially if it's called PSYCHO 2: MEAT CIRCUS

brutal legend rts aspects were its doom for sure

I really enjoyed the shit out of trenched. exactly what you'd want from an xbl arcade game..

yeah, i should likely give it a shot. is it on steam?

I assume so.. they also renamed it iron brigade I think.

Only Doublefine games on Steam are Psychonauts and Costume Quest, I think. Everything else is Xbox/ps3.

Iron Brigade/Trenched was rumored to go to Steam a few months ago, but it hasn't appeared yet

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure

This is something: Tim & Ron Gilbert want to make a new point & click adventure game, but since no publisher will fund it, they went to Kickstarter to raise the 400 large they're going to need.

They've already made more than half the required funding in less than 48 hours.

Basic game/contrib is $15, which gets you the final product, access to the public beta, etc.

They even made a little video pitch for you:

http://kck.st/A9k3jH

They are over one million. Their goal was 400k.

some way of the future shit there

Cave, Touhou & Treasure should fund their shooters this way, crazy fanbases would raise crazy money
but they don't even know Steam exists (;.;)

http://p.twimg.com/AlQErziCIAIw6zN.jpg

Tim Schafer @TimOfLegend
Someone at Double Fine tweet me a picture of you guys celebrating!

aw

did they hijack savewalterwhite.com so something

or something?

http://www.doublefine.com/news/comments/stacking_coming_to_pc/

Awesome. Stacking is coming to Steam this spring.

$1.63M now, 30 days to go.

jesus, they're gonna make three million on this aren't they
if they had known, there's no way they would've blown it on a small project.

They won't make three million, but they might break two.

Maybe it will make it easier for them to do a Psychonauts sequel? Or does every cent have to go into the adventure project?

I'm planning on kicking in the $15 before the deadline's up. Aside from the fact that I looooooove Monkey Island, I think the reason why I'm a) gonna give them my money, and b) am incredibly happy for them, is that their pitch was very very good: it explained clearly what they would do with the money, why they chose kickstarter, what the products you would get were. As opposed to that music magazine kickstarter, where the whole pitch was meaningless dribble.

These guys aren't even promising a mac version (which is what I use) yet they've convinced me to pay in. They bloody better do one now they've got all this cocking money, though.

just ~makes you think~ what other ideas companies could get finance for that they're otherwise sitting on due to lack of funding

Notch's Psychonauts 2 news is apparently unrelated to this, and he now considers his idea slightly ill-timed.

Also, they've explicitly said that extra funding will allow them to port the game over to mac & ios platforms. We'll see, I guess.

i've been meaning to get a kickstarter account to donate, guess i will before this goes down.

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz5g9jalYh1qhbud5o1_500.jpg

lol, yeah

I've never heard of this ArkH Project thing - and maybe it's even interesting and worth paying attention to, but I don't think it's any surprise that a developer with a track record of excellent games that many people have greatly enjoyed would get funded before someone ppl have never heard of and have no history in the industry (afaik?).

lol no justice, no peace

maybe this is why they are having trouble raising money?
http://ardeb.tumblr.com/post/16890249680/okay-ive-been-wanting-to-make-this-post-for-a

I think it is completely amazing that they raised 5k.

"The goal is an action RPG, meaning that you have to be good at hitting buttons at the right times to kill monsters."
new board description imo

Hey wait a min, I run this thing and I can't even change the description. Oh well.

I don't think it's any surprise that a developer with a track record of excellent games that many people have greatly enjoyed would get funded before someone ppl have never heard of and have no history in the industry (afaik?).

Yeah, that's the thing. What, dude is butthurt b/c some guys who have long had cult/popular followings hit upon a method for severely frustrated fans to both show appreciation and directly fund more projects that made them fans in the first place?

Has this dude put anything else out? Is it good? compelling? worth stealing? worth paying for?

And did it even represent people of all creeds, colors, and orientations equally?

I imagining the passive aggressive heroes of the Half-Life 3 Call for Communication (do we have a thread for that? couldn't find one) raising a million and sending it to Valve, and Valve neatly stacking it with their other millions.

I donated to kickstarter then realized I dont have a fucking pc. better raise some mo' money to get ports to iphone and/or mac.

They've raised 4x the base amount. Pretty likely that mac/ios ports is coming.

also:

And did it even represent people of all creeds, colors, and orientations equally?

hell, at this point, just as long as something good is out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFKwplDBmgg

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure/posts

19 hours left, within spittin' distance of $3Million

shoot! good reminder.

3.3 million