Double Fine Adventure Crosses $2.5 Million In Kickstarter Funding

An anonymous reader writes "Double Fine Adventure, the crowd-funded adventure game from Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert (of Monkey Island fame), just crossed the $2.5 million mark in funding on Kickstarter. So far, about 73,000 enthusiastic backers have contributed an average of $35 dollars each, with 3 extravagant backers going as far as to contribute $10,000 (earning them a lunch with Schafer and Gilbert, among other goodies). The total sum is over 6 times the amount Schafer and Gilbert were initially hoping to raise ($400,000). Schafer released a few pictures showing what he's doing with all the money. The project has received attention in mainstream media (sort of), with NPR's Morning Edition covering the story."

There's also a Tactical Shooter!

[airfoobar]

A few of days ago I submitted a story about another high-profile game creator following Schafer's lead by using Kickstarter, but /. mods chose to post ads about Apple TV instead (because obviously Apple needs the help more than an indie team).

"..an independent team led by Chistian Allen (lead designer/creative director for games like Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter and Halo: Reach) has launched a Kickstarter for a new hardcore tactical shooter."

Their PR is nowhere as good as Schafer's, but tactical shooters deserve some love too! [kickstarter.com]

Re:Again Kickstarter is used to rob the commons

[elifer]

There are at least two succesful open source projects in kickstarter:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/149077132/a-house-in-california-a-point-click-art-game?ref=live

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1384519763/pissed-off-penguins?ref=live

Just because people backed the project doesn't mean it can be released freely afterwards. They still can get their recognition through the rewards