Comments - KlokwerkSolja

Idiot.

Your kingdom for the genre not to be defunct and the good probability that Schafer will crash and burn at the release of Double Fine Adventure. :P

If you look at Double Fine's history, and the genre of Double Fine adventure, Schafer won't produce a good title. Check lower down where I say why.

Yeah, but Stacking had excellent ascetics and setting though, what Schafer’s great at.

Tell me about Yogventures. -_- You've got it spot on. Minecraft has a hell've lot of geometry math - chunk based data compression - behind it those guys won't be able to replicate correctly, let alone the gameplay that they want to make is beyond them, and that alpha is a joke.

'Minecraft only better' is a nice idea, but Winterkewl don't have that kind of experience, Notch to make the engine, or a guy like me who could make the gameplay systems they want.

I said, 'They'll get the funding, they'll even make the game, but it won't be a high quality product', and their fan base told me to **** off and die.

Those guys are a pair of monkies using their popularity to direct money into their pet project, not professionals with proven experience needing the funding to make their new idea. No one listens to the voice of reason though; they just throw money at those idiots.

Another bubble being inflated by Kickstarter.

He has said that after Double Fine Adventure that he'd use the money to fund other games of similar topic that publishers have turned down but which he thinks are good ideas.

Yeah, I know I can be pretty harsh but I'm speaking as a professional developer who’s really rather good at game’s design, so I'm being hard on the guy by reflex as I desire high quality.

Game.biz went batpoop over my comments (like I care though). I'm not saying the guy cannot do good games, it's as I said; if he sticks to his own genre - roleplaying setting design - and gets other people to handle the gameplay, it'll be awesome. But given DF's release history, if that is what he was going to do, he would've done it by now.

He made a name for himself pre-Double Fine, and nothing since then, apart from maybe Psyconaughts (Stacking, good, Stacking, not Grim Fandango 2 quality), has matched the quality.

Who knows, maybe 3mil is enough to make Double Fine Adventure on par with Grim Fandango. I don't expect it, but I am hoping for it.

Wrong. The only thing you need to be is popular. Look at the Yogscast. Their game is a load of crap, but cus they've just such a huge and devoted audience, they got their funding.

Double Fine has a really bad release history; Schafer made his name with Grim Fandango, did Psychonaughts (which fell under the radar), and then ****** up every major release due to his expertise in setting design and not gameplay (Brutal Legend was a multigenre mess) till Stacking (itself too short).

The public are stupid and not analysts; they don't see release history, project management and staff, or the fact that the genre is defunct and won't sell on mass. They see funnie video with charismatic fool who made one or two epic games they remember playing and enjoying. Add to this that they, the public, aren't expecting their money back.

I would've turned this monkie down for funding if he said, 'gimme 400k, 6 months and I'll give you a return on your investment'. OK, he's got 3 mil. 3 mil buys a lot of 'get-it-done', and brain if he needs it to get the product right, and add to that people know about this guy now due to the publicity, but based on historical ineptitude, this man is not the horse to bet on if you want a high quality, well selling title.

This entire thing is a soap bubble being inflated by Kickstarter.