Anyway, buy this poster!

Or buy it SIGNED by Lee Petty his own self!

Or be one of the first five people to comment on this post and get a FREE SIGNED POSTER!!!

Yeah, you heard me.

“There’s something I like about that young man,” I said, assuming it was just his awesome, limited edition T-Shirt.

Then we initiated a Volunteer Tester Army to help us get Psychonauts out the door, and guess who showed up? CHRIS REMO. I welcomed him to Double Fine in the traditional way of my people.

“I love this game,” he said, “But this last level should be harder, and the kid should scream more about his face!” I knew this guy had the magic touch, and so I briefly renamed the Double Fine Action news after him.

Alas, Chris Remo then burrowed back underground and dissapeared for six years, like a cicada. Sleeping, and chirping, and growing and podcasting. Until finally, driven by a mysterious, primal instinct, he dug his way back up to the surface again. Slowly, he made his way back into the offices of Double Fine—navigating by the stars or magnetic fields, scientists do not know exactly. But he returned.

And guess what? We finally hired him for real!

Chris Remo is now Double Fine’s official COMMUNITY MANAGER!!!

Hear that, unmanaged Double Fine community? You’re about to be managed into a whole new dimention of gaming satisfaction. Your problems? Managed. Your fears? Managed. Your hopes, dreams, expectations, aspirations, rants, questions, Screamwagon videos, slash fiction, bloody Christmastree ornaments, WWI Haiku, Halloween Costume Polaroids, and erotic nesting doll art?

        M A N A G E D !

I have to tell you, it was extremely fun to hire Chris after all these years.

But then we decided to make him the fall guy for some videos that leaked out. Sorry, Chris! Rules of seniority and all that.

So long, Chris Remo. Good luck underground! See you in six years!

Holy cow people, I can’t even believe it. I don’t know what to say. Except THANK YOU!! People are mailing in congratulations to us, but I really have to say congratulations to all the backers because you really sent a message around the industry! And you really made your voices heard loud and clear!

We’ll put up more information soon about what the next steps are. There are some things we have to wait for—The whole kickstarter/amazon machinery still has to grind and churn for another week or so. Then backer forums will be set up and we’ll be sending out surveys to get everyone’s mailing addresses, etc.

We will do a video update to the backers tomorrow with more information! For now there’s nothing to do but sit back and marvel at what a bunch of regular people can accomplish if they get organized!

Love bomb!
Ka-bloooxxoxoxoxoxoxoxooo!

If you want more info or have info to share about credit card-less backing of our kickstarter, please contribute to this awesome forum thread!

(they really shouldn’t keep their hard drives on the floor, but they do.)

For more info, go to http://www.tinyurl.com/doublekick.

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.

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.

Also, you can buy it here.

(Next post: Get ready for some MARTIAN BEARS!)
(Which you can buy here!)

Hit Read the Rest to see the official press release!

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!!!

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!

It’s time to go back to the Book and meet strange new characters from another planet! New pages, new activies!

The perfect thing to play if you want to work off that big Thanksgiving dinner!

Or the last five big Thanksgiving dinners!

Available in both Men’s and Women’s sizes. Shirt from American Apparel, and you know what THAT means.

Click “Read the Rest” to see the press release…

Visit the Double Fine Action Shop for details!

This is the last one I swear!

...because otherwise how could I play Xbox 360 with my kid? Best thing is…