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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Double Fine Kickstarter Project - I reach for my revolver
 
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EricFate
Aug 31, 2001

Crumpets. Glorious Crumpets.

Crappy Jack posted:

My favorite thing about this is Tim didn't even have to make a pitch. He didn't have to go into a room full of CEOs and justify making a video game, or whip out any documents to show how a point and click adventure could generate ad revenue.

He literally just went on the internet and said "Hey internet, I'm Tim Schafer and I want to make another point and click game" and the internet gave him half a million dollars to do it.

More importantly, he won't have to justify the end product to those CEO's either. Nobody will be able to make 'content suggestions' or demand that it be more 'market friendly', and nobody will be able to force it out the door early to meet the holiday season. It's just one big pre-sale with badass promotional items, and any money donated above and beyond can go into marketing, Q&A, additional content, or just giving a bunch of programmers who seem to get repeatedly screwed by their publishers a nice big bonus for continuing to do awesome work.

I'm down with that.

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