2012 is a great year for adventure game fans
Well, 2012 is certainly shaping up to be a great time for adventure games. I have already gushed excessively about the Space Quest releases that happened at the very start of 2012.
Now Double Fine is making a fan-funded adventure game. If you have no idea who Double Fine is, maybe I just need to mention the two head honchos behind this idea: Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert. Still not in on it? How about if I drop classic games titles like Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island or Full Throttle? Yeah, those guys.
And you probably won’t anytime soon. However, the same guys that brought you this are bringing you something potentially even cooler.
Taking inspiration from forward-thinking musicians like Josh Freese, Double Fine offers a variety of drool-inducing goodies if you choose to pledge your support to the project. You can go as low as $5, but if you want to set off the drool-slide, you can drop anywhere from $15.000-50.000 (if you’ve got that kind of dough lying around, perhaps sown into your mattress) and get some really cool benefits. The grand daddy of which being a mindblowing donation of $150.000 with an equally mindblowing prize (at least, to old adventure game farts like me): an original triangle-shaped box of one of the greatest adventure games of all time, Day of the Tentacle.
Remember this the next time big business (I’m thinking specifically of MPAA and RIAA, but feel free to fill in your own “whiny cunt” candidate) tries to tell you how tough it is to survive in this day and age, why they have to dumb everything down for the massive audiences in order to just break even, and how their idealism has been crushed because of a fickle buying public who just don’t seem to be into anything. Well, here’s what happens when you make something people want.
Tim Schafer, Ron Gilbert and the Double Fine team deserve a fucking medal for this.
