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They're currently $300k over their goal. Amazing. Can we get a Kickstarter project going for an open-engine, updated graphics, Grim Fandango?

int3rnaut 15y ago
Do you think there is ever a risk to being "over-funded"? I know it sounds stupid, but it's an honest question.
- masklinn 15y ago
  'course there is, but Schafer and Gilbert have been in the industry for some 40 years combined, and Double Fine seems to be nicely run as a pretty tight ship. I think that's a case where it shouldn't be too much of a risk.
- peter_l_downs 15y ago
  Yes. see: Duke Nukem Forever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Duke_Nukem_Forever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Duke_Nukem_Forev...
- InclinedPlane 15y ago
  Yes! It's a pretty big risk too. But for a digital project like this with a limited number of physical rewards that risk is pretty small. For a project that's about physical production there are serious risks that smart folks should be wary of. It's one thing to produce a limited run of products (say, a few hundred) it's another thing to have to produce tens of thousands in order to satisfy pre-orders. For example, you might have a small team manufacturing stuff and you might be able to stretch out your production run from a minimum of a few days or weeks up to a year or so and that'll buy you a factor of 10 in production output, but if you get 100x or 1,000x pre-orders you may have to go to a dramatically different production system and hire staff, which could be enormously risky.
- rmc 15y ago
  For games, yes I think there is. If you have too much money, you can drag it out, always adding new things, etc. If you are making a new OS (or web broweser, or something), then with more money you can develop more/better software. Linux has been under active development for 20 years, and will likely continue for many more years, Linux will probably never be "done", but a game can be "done".
thristian 15y ago
Open engine: http://www.residualvm.org/ http://www.residualvm.org/ Updated graphics: http://forums.residualvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=100 http://forums.residualvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=100

int3rnaut 15y ago

Do you think there is ever a risk to being "over-funded"? I know it sounds stupid, but it's an honest question.

masklinn 15y ago
'course there is, but Schafer and Gilbert have been in the industry for some 40 years combined, and Double Fine seems to be nicely run as a pretty tight ship. I think that's a case where it shouldn't be too much of a risk.
peter_l_downs 15y ago
Yes. see: Duke Nukem Forever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Duke_Nukem_Forever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_Duke_Nukem_Forev...
InclinedPlane 15y ago
Yes! It's a pretty big risk too. But for a digital project like this with a limited number of physical rewards that risk is pretty small. For a project that's about physical production there are serious risks that smart folks should be wary of. It's one thing to produce a limited run of products (say, a few hundred) it's another thing to have to produce tens of thousands in order to satisfy pre-orders. For example, you might have a small team manufacturing stuff and you might be able to stretch out your production run from a minimum of a few days or weeks up to a year or so and that'll buy you a factor of 10 in production output, but if you get 100x or 1,000x pre-orders you may have to go to a dramatically different production system and hire staff, which could be enormously risky.
rmc 15y ago
For games, yes I think there is. If you have too much money, you can drag it out, always adding new things, etc. If you are making a new OS (or web broweser, or something), then with more money you can develop more/better software. Linux has been under active development for 20 years, and will likely continue for many more years, Linux will probably never be "done", but a game can be "done".

thristian 15y ago

Open engine: http://www.residualvm.org/ http://www.residualvm.org/ Updated graphics: http://forums.residualvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=100 http://forums.residualvm.org/viewtopic.php?t=100