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

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

hey guys I'm two years late on this but <3 COSTUME QUEST <3

right?

I finished the main quest, got distracted and put the game down for the expansion.

still really bummed about the bug that essentially made my costume quest save game USELESS.

While we're talking Telltale adventure games, gf and I have been having fun playing the Back to The Future games. It's very easy, but has so much charm and quality coming from the voice acting that it's a real pleasure to play.

http://www.humblebundle.com/double-fine

Bundle of Amnesia Fortnight prototypes available for the next few hours

did we not talk about the walking dead on this thread because O_O

it is awesome. just finished up episode 2 - want to beat the whole thing before i discuss it further

it's a great game to space out, too, since each episode is a little longer than roughly movie-length

I wish I had spaced it out sort of... ended up beating all 5 eps this past weekend.

tbf, i think i would've gone mad if i had to wait 2-3 whole months between episodes as opposed to a week. but that's a testament to how strongly they pulled off the episodic nature of it

I was thinking the same thing as I steamrolled through them. The "Previously on the Walking Dead" wrapups between games are a nice touch though.

I was getting kind of bored with Ep2 but just hit the big reveal (unscrewing latch), pretty sure I guessed the situation correctly now.

Ep2 had the most roadblocks for me. Everything after that was pretty smooth sailing and I gotta say, I think 3-5 are really the best eps.

downloaded middle manager of justice last night and its kind of boring.. anyone dabbled?

It's okay for a while

that's about where I'm at.

i found it pretty boring too

Oh, damn.
SPOILERS

Carley getting capped in Ep3 is brutal. I guess you can save her, but apparently the one you save dies anyway later on?

ILG would do well to have a spoilers tag that makes the text almost the same color as the bg

i mean i already saw that but yeah it is hard not to read those things.

and re: oh damn, YEAH that was an OH DAMN moment for sure. completely didn't see it coming, so without pomp or "meaning", just horrible

you know what? new thread because ALL THIS GAME IS is spoilers

Yeah that's an especially shitty one because people had moved on from talking about TWD and were talking about middle manager of justice, which I didn't care about reading spoilers for...but no, you were spoiling a game I'm currently in the middle of playing.