The donations included some premium backers that donated $10,000, which included a lunch with Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert and a tour of the Double Fine offices. Board games publisher Days of Wonder donated $50,000 in the name of their Ticket To Ride team. Another $110,000 was raised from premium backers not listed on the Kickstarter page.
Schafer praised Kickstarter for giving Double Fine an avenue of raising revenue for videogame production that wasn’t dependent on major publishers. ”If you’ve ever been told you were part of a niche gaming effort, you can now be part of a super niche. Why does a big company get to choose what I watch or play? Well, now they can’t. Thank you to everybody on the team, to the backers, and to Cindy at Kickstarter,” he thanked.
Double Fine Adventure, which is the game’s working title, will have additional bells and whistles that Schafer hadn’t planned, such as voice acting. The documentary that was to follow the development of the game will similarly have higher production values.
inExile has recently announced it was accepting donations from the public to help fund Wasteland 2, the sequel to the groundbreaking late 1980’s roleplaying game which would be the inspiration for the Fallout series.
This could mark the beginning of the era of publicly-backed videogame development.
