Tim Schafer had an awesome idea. Hundreds upon hundreds of times, people have told him that they want more games like Day of the Tentacle, or Grim Fandango. And he was forced to respond that no publisher was going to go in for a point-and-click adventure game anymore.
So he decided to try to cut out the middleman and put his idea up
on Kickstarter. The goal was to get $400,000 in about 5 weeks, which would give them around 8 months to get a new game out in October. This Kickstarter was put up last night.
It look just over 8 hours to hit the stated goal. Right now it's well over
seven hundred thousand dollars. Some quick math will tell you that this averages to just about
forty dollars per backer. In a way, people are basically preordering this game nine months in advance before it even exists, at over twice the stated price! The amount of faith in Tim Schafer and Doublefine here is staggering, and it's also worth thinking about what this means for the video game industry and independent projects in general.
tl;dr kickstarter is badass, tim schafer is awesome, holy what people
