Doublefine's Tim Schaefer on How to Fund Your Game Through Kickstarter

How do you make a video game that no one seems to want anymore? Game developer Double Fine faced that conundrum at the end of 2011. The company wanted to make an old-school PC adventure game, the type that had made company founder Tim Schafer a game design legend in the 1990s with titles like Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango. But the genre’s market had seemingly dried up in favor of more visceral experiences like first-person shooters.

How do you make a video game that no one seems to want anymore? Game developer Double Fine faced that conundrum at the end of 2011. The company wanted to make an old-school PC adventure game, the type that had made company founder Tim Schafer a game design legend in the 1990s with titles like Day of the Tentacle and Grim Fandango. But the genre’s market had seemingly dried up in favor of more visceral experiences like first-person shooters.

Freddie Wong and the team behind the blockbuster web series “Video Game High School” have shattered the record for a film campaign on Kickstarter, the crowdfunding site that has helped a number of aspiring and established filmmakers secure financing for their projects.

The success of Double Fine Adventure is spilling over into other crowd-funded video game projects on Kickstarter, according to a post on the company?s blog. The crowd-funding website reports that in the month leading up to Double Fine?s debut, the Video category averaged 629 pledges per week. A shocking jump in pledges occurred after the ...

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VideoThe techno music-oriented flying cat game is a lot more than just an awesome experience in sound. Game creators 21st Street Games topped the Xbox Live Arcade and iTunes charts with their smash-hit indie game Techno Kitten Adventure, and now they're Kickstarting their second edition of the game, seeking crowd-sourced funding [...]

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