Double Fine breaks Kickstarter funding records

I think this will finally overcome the TikTok iPod nano watch. I love mine.

can someone tell me what's so special about that game?

Good for them, Its always nice to see faith rewarded.

I imagine this speed record will stand until Tim decides to use Kickstarter to help fund Psychonauts 2.

I said a couple days ago that if they started a kickstarter they could easily make a cool million and it looks like they're on track for that and more.

At the pace it keeps going it'll hit a million bucks by the end of first day. Amazing stuff.

Maybe Tim and Notch should do a kickstarter project for Psychonauts 2 but with one of those "we'll match your contribution" promises, i.e. whatever they get from kickstarter donations they double it using their own money. Those 3-4 mil that Tim wanted for it will be cake to get that way :)

I can donate 15 bucks directly to two of the minds that shaped my slightly warped childhood, AND get a free game? How can I lose?

A new age is dawning! This is the future of game development!

*raises Narcil replica and pauses awkwardly*

This to me is a super interesting story. A couple of thoughts.

1) When I read that they were asking for $400,000 I was like, wow, that's a lot, they'll never get it. I was totally wrong.

2) I think it's interesting that the donors get a copy of the game. I wonder if the game will sell to anyone that didn't already buy the game through a Kickstart donation. Probably so, given how wrong I was on point 1) above.

3) I was kinda disappointed that "donors" only get rewards, and not dividends. It would be cool if donors could get a cut of profits in proportion to the size of the donation. That would obviously require some serious legal wrangling, but I think it'd be a cool idea.

$800,000+ and rising.

Double the fund.

Maybe if this keeps going they'd decide to use the extra funds for Psychonauts 2, or this adventure game would just have the highest production values of any adventure game ever.

Kickstarter has done more to support the devs than online passes ever will.

#StillNoUpdateOnPsychonauts2

Dear Mr. Tim Schaefer,

We regret to inform you that we will not publish your game. We do not feel confident at this time that anyone would be willing to pay for it. People only want brown and gray first-person shooters with chest-high walls and Madden. Nobody wants fun or creativity. Consumers would much rather have shitty sequels, movie tie-ins and intrusive DRM.

While it is true that you have maintained a level of trust with your audience, a transparent relationship of trust between a developer and the consumer has never equated to profitable business.


...Except for the 17,000 people who completely paid off your kickstarter project within 9 HOURS, with over a month still left to donate. This in turn raising over $800,000.

But other than THAT, clearly there is no demand for your work in this economic environment, Mr. Schaefer.


~Sincerely,

The Morons In Charge Of AAA Game Studios, DNR.

They're now sitting at almost a million dollars, after around 24 hours.

Now, imagine what would have happened had the Kickstarter been for Psychonauts 2, instead of a new, unannounced game.

Tim doesn't need Notch.

I think it's awesome Double Fine has found such an overwhelming success using Kickstarter as a platform for investment...Psychonauts is still one of my favorite games to date, and in my opinion, there's not enough out there.

However, I do have some anxiety about what's going to happen to some of the smaller developers who really depend on sources like Kickstarter for alternative means to fund a creative project. Considering the number of contributors that are out there funneling money into this project, there is an opportunity cost pegged on other small developers reducing their chance for visibility and much smaller increments of funding goals for essential business needs to finish/start a project hinging on their campaign's success.

Our company, Mighty Rabbit Studios, launched a Kickstarter campaign for our upcoming title "Saturday Morning RPG" literally an hour before Double Fine. Since there is no way of knowing whether this was coming, we are essentially screwed unless we can find a way to draw people to our project from outside sites.

It's certainly some bad luck, but I'm wondering with such an epic success whether other notable studios well beyond the breadth of a small start up will be entering and succeeding in the crowd funding arena? Will small studios with creative ideas again be pushed back to the bottom of the barrel to fight for scraps left over from larger studios? It seems that the trend of favor usually shifts to larger companies to the demise of the small guys, aka the App Store. I wonder if we're seeing the beginning of the end for the golden age of crowd funding for creative small business entrepreneur?

Just a thought....

So happy to contribute to something knowing that some EA or Ubisoft suit isn't going to ruin the game. I'd totally support a project $20 to send money directly to the devs that I support in order to keep corporate America out of my games.

They're rapidly approaching the $942,578 mark of the TikTok. May very well hit $1 million in the next 2 hours.

They just hit $1 million. It was rising fast. Part of me wonders if this was just really viral, or some sort of hack is going on.

Yu Suzuki

WHAT THE FLYING F*CK ARE YOU WAITING FOR???!?!?!? DO THISSSSSSSSSS