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Your Adventure Game Kickstarter Roundup
Cover Story: All the fan-funded throwbacks currently in the works.
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n the four years since the launch of Kickstarter, the popular fundraising platform has grown extremely relevant to gamers. Over just the past few months, we’ve seen a handful of industry vets ask fans to look into their hearts (and wallets) in order to facilitate game development that couldn’t happen otherwise. Cut free from the strings of publishers, these notable industry figures can now work without certain market pressures resting on their shoulders, while their devoted throngs can sleep at night, knowing that they helped bring a (hopefully) great game into being. In short, everybody wins — especially those who miss familiar genres that have since outgrown their antiquated interfaces.
Of course, I speak of adventure games — in the classic PC sense, that is. What started with a so-crazy-it-just-might-work idea from Double Fine has since escalated into an avalanche of old-school developers excited to return to the worlds they created through the powers of Kickstarter. And since so many projects have popped up in the wake of Tim Schafer’s smashing success, it can be a little hard to keep track of what’s succeeded, and what desperately needs your money, and when. Lucky for you, 1UP has already done most of the heavy lifting. And please note that these numbers are accurate as of this writing — which is well before the time you’re reading.
