The Double Fine Adventure-Adventure is here!
Publishers tell us that adventure games are dead. Our fans tell us they aren’t.
Who is right? Well, I think it’s about time we found out!
Into the THUNDERDOME!
And by THUNDERDOME, I mean KICKSTARTER!
Kickstarter allows regular people to pool their money to make awesome things happen.
Please check out our video, and make a pledge. But before you do, please check out our PREMIUM PLEDGES listed below!
You see, some pledges are so premium, they break the Kickstarter system. They’re just that good. So we have to post them here. These are the Premium Rewards. The Glengary Rewards. These Rewards are for Closers.
If you want to make a premium pledge, just mail kickstarter at doublefine.com. I put the at in there to totally fool the spam bots. I hope it didn’t fool you.
Anyway:
Pledge $15,000 or more:
Dinner with Tim Schafer and key members of the dev team.
Pledge $20,000 or more:
Dinner and BOWLING with Tim Schafer and key members of the dev team.
Pledge $30,000 or more:
Picture of Ron Gilbert smiling.
Pledge $35,000 or more:
Undoctored picture of Ron Gilbert smiling.
Pledge $50,000 or more:
Become an actual character in the game.
Pledge $150,000 or more:
Tim Schafer (that’s me) will give up ONE of his last four remaining Triangle-Boxed Day of the Tentacles, in original shrink-wrap.” (Limit of 1) (Holy crap, what am I thinking? I only have four of those!)
That’s all there is to it! Think it will work? I hope so, because I would rather work directly for the fans than for anyone else. If the Double Fine Kickstarter Adventure is a success, it could open the doors for all sorts of new funding possibilities, and all kinds of new games that could never happen in the old system. So basically I’m just talking about changing the entire world forever for the better. And getting a game out of it.
"I wonder if they are going to pay for dinner"
"Fan-friggin-tastic! Congrats on meeting and beating the hell out of your goal! Looking forward to the game and the documentary!"
"wow just wow ($_$)"
"and for once... can we have the chainsaw AND the fuel for the chainsaw in the same game?"
Double Fine Day of Overdelivery, pt. 1: Happy Action Theater
Double Fine Happy Action Theater is NOW AVAILABLE on Xbox Live Arcade!!!
Here is a handy link you can use to buy it!
It has 18 completely different activities, many of which involve you performing bizzare acts in front of your television. We don’t force you to performs these acts. But when we turn the game on, people do it themselves! Look what happend when we took the game across the street to Bar Basic and let people check out the Clone-O-Matic(tm):
(Music by Paul O’Rourke!)
Here is a second, even more handy link you can use to buy it!
Here is Happy Action Theater being reviewed on IGN by KIDS:
Here is a third, possibly unnecessary, but still pretty handy link you can use to buy it!
And here is a fancy trailer that our friends at Microsoft made for us:
That trailer was so fancy I think it calls for an even handier link you can use to buy it!
Ah heck, why not one more, just to be safe?
So, in conclusion I think the safest thing to say is that Double Fine Happy Action Theater is the thing your life has been missing all this time.
(Next post: Get ready for some MARTIAN BEARS!)
(Which you can buy here!)
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"Got it! Now I just need a Kinect to play it! Seems like there should be a Happy Action Theatre in every bar."
Stacking coming to PC
(That stands for Personal Computers, in case you’ve forgotten.)
Stacking, the awesome game you love in which Russian dolls cavort and solve puzzles, is coming to the PC! Also, it won this awesome award from G4!!
Hit Read the Rest to see the official press release!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 16, 2011
STACKING COMING TO PC
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – December 16 —Double Fine Productions is happy to announce that Stacking, the Russian Doll Adventure recently named Downloadable Game of the Year by G4TV’s X-Play, is coming to the PC.
“I had nothing to do with this,” interjected Steve Dengler of Dracogen Strategic Investments, even though he totally funded the whole thing.
“Please, it is Christmas time and I prefer my good deeds to be anonymous, like Santa,” he added.
“Uh, everybody knows about Santa,” said Stacking creator Lee Petty, “He’s on every street corner in town.”
“So’s your mother,” said Mr. Dengler.
“Ho ho ho, that’s not Christmas talk,” said Santa Claus, who had slid into the room through the chimney without anyone noticing. “Christmas is about the spirit of giving, like how Double Fine is giving away the excellent DLC adventure The Lost Hobo King along with Stacking.”
Lee and Steven scowled at each other for a bit longer, but then they had to laugh and agree that Santa was right, and everybody gathered around to hug and sing Christmas carols. They sang about what an awesome game Stacking was, how great the Lost Hobo King DLC was, and how lucky everyone was that all this joy would be available on Steam, in the Spring of 2012 at the bargain price of $14.99. It was a strange song that didn’t rhyme much, but it was heartfelt.
And Lee’s mother, who is a saint, never found out about any of this.
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About Double Fine Productions, Inc.
Double Fine Productions is a San Francisco-based game developer that makes games with a focus on creativity, characters, and fun. Since its founding in 2000, it has produced the award-winning titles Psychonauts, Brütal Legend, Costume Quest, Stacking, Iron Brigade, and Sesame Street: Once Upon a Monster. Learn more about Double Fine at http://www.doublefine.com.
About Dracogen Strategic Investments
Dracogen Strategic Investments is the creation of Steven Dengler-father, gamer, entrepreneur, pilot, co-founder of XE.com Inc., and all-round geek. Dracogen is committed to making awesome things happen whenever it can. Besides backing some pretty amazing tech companies, it also supports fun creative projects and has a particular affinity for Child’s Play Charity. Learn more about Dracogen at http://www.dracogen.com.
About Lee Petty’s Mother
Lee Petty’s mother is a saint.
"*cough* mac? *cough* *cough*"
"Charlie Blackmore in da hooouuuussse! Perhaps Iron Brigade may come to Steam as well? *crosses fingers*"
"I created an account just to thank you for this. Thank you!"
"Really good news! Thanks DoubleFine!"
"YESSSSSSS I am so happy about this! Time to regain achievements!"
Iron Brigade DEPLOYED WORLDWIDE, with matching SHIRT!
Iron Brigade, the game formerly known as I can’t remember what, is now available AROUND THE WORLD. No more European embargo! You can download it right now from XBLA. RIGHT NOW! Also happening today, if you already own a game called Trenched, you can download an update that won’t just rename your game to Iron Brigade, but also unlock new loot, leaderboards, and an awesome survival mode for FREE. To celebrate this momentous day in fictional military history, we are releasing a brand new Iron Brigade T-Shirt!
Oh wait, this is NOT a T-shirt! That would get us sued! This I-Shirt features the flying emplacement logo from the hit game Iron Brigade, emblazoned across an olive green American Apparel shirt. Why waste hours at the gym when this amazing garment could give you a MANLIER CHEST in MINUTES!?
P.S. American Apparel shirts run a little small, so unless you are actually wasting hours at the gym, you might want to order up a size.
Now go download Iron Brigade and KILL SOME TUBES!!!
"*ad"
"The add on the main pages still says Trenched."
"Hey! You got to earn that T-shirt to wear it!"
"That's the T-shirt. It's an image of Brad, standing against a brick wall, wearing an Iron Brigate T-shirt, on a T-shirt... I-shirt. That wall he's standing in front of is the 3rd wall."
"It doesn't come with Brad right?"
Iron Brigade descends upon Europe November 30!
Sorry, but we had to wait for this whole Greek debt thing to get resolved. Also, Brad was really upset about the state of Italian politics, and vowed he wouldn’t release his game in Europe until Silvio Berlusconi stepped down. You can understand his feelings, I’m sure.
Anyway, the good news is that Iron Brigade will be out in Europe on November 30!
Also, on that fateful day, Trenched players worldwide will get an update that will rename their beloved game to Iron Brigade. WHY? Why are we forcing everybody to change the name of their game? Because if the names are different, if we did the Biohazard/Resident Evil thing, you would not be able to play a multiplayer game between the two versions.
No, seriously.
Surprised? So were we! HAHA! That is the sound of me being so surprised when I found out we had to rename our game! HAHAHA! Joy and surprise! HAHAHA!
Anyway, we really wanted to make sure that everybody could play together around the world because our game is a game about LOVE. The ultimate goal of our game is, after all, nothing short of WORLD PEACE. So we went the Hero’s Quest/Quest for Glory route instead. Now we want all the children of the world to gather together, hold hands, and say “Iron Brigade” over and over and over again until they can’t even remember what it was called before. And then we want them to shoot Tubes together while sharing information about their disparate cultures.
As your reward for tolerating all these renaming shenanigans, Brad and his Band of Brohams are releasing a brand new (and 100%-free-to-you) SURVIVAL MODE, plus new LOOT. So really, this whole thing was pretty much totally worth it and I’m glad it happened. In fact, if anyone has any new ideas for a name, we could totally change it again! Woo!
Stay tuned to the official Iron Brigade website for more news about the upcoming DLC, Rise of the Martian Bear! Or whatever we change the name to later!
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"Gosh, finaly we will get some of that goodness in Europe too. I am soooo looking forward. Cheers! prickmind from London"
"If you called it "Robot Quest" people would be stepping over their own mothers to get a copy. I'm telling you. *raises eyebrows*"
"Many, many tubes shall rue the day they were built. Even more than before."
"Hey, look, we also have capcha codes to stop all the comment spam! Yay!"
"Hey guys, why not add some more (reasonably priced, $100-200 or less) reward tiers? not only would it seriously help raise more money (and get the project closer to its initial fundraising speed), but it would give us Double Fine Fans a chance to get cool stuff and further express our support for you! I'm really excited about the game, but would be even more excited to get the game + DF extras. I pledged $30 because I'm not that interested in getting a poster, but would gladly increase if there were other options :)"