Thursday, February 9, 2012

Double Fine kickstarts an adventure before I can even get my pants on

There's some double fine advice for you.

I put my pants on one leg at a time just like everybody else, except it takes me 8 hours.  I understand this is not common but for the life of me can’t figure out how it’s done more quickly.  What do you do with all the busted sprockets?  Anyway, I’ve just learned that today, while I was strapped into my pantsing apparatus, grunting and straining to reach the levers, Tim Schafer was out on the internet hustling for cash at Kickstarter.  He wants to return to his roots and produce another classic point/click adventure, something like Grim Fandango or Day of the Tentacle, precisely the sort of game today's risk-averse publishers aren't keen to finance.  So he made his pitch direct to the SCUMM-hungry masses instead.  And they are hungry for SCUMM—he asked for $400,000 and has been buried in a funding avalanche we hope he will not embezzle.  Looks like we’ll be stealing rubber chickens with pulleys in their middles and caching hamsters in freezers this fall. Wow, that Schafer’s a go-getter. I bet he can get his pants on in like 3 hours.

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