Well, they said it would be a small team of 6-7 people, and their aim is to finish for October. With that math, we're looking at those devs being paid around 70

Well, they said it would be a small team of 6-7 people, and their aim is to finish for October. With that math, we're looking at those devs being paid around 70k a year, give or take. Which is probably about right. I'm not sure how taxes affect the money raised from Kickstarter -- but I assume the plan from Double Fine was to get a bunch of the money from the internet, and then throw in a bit of their own. As for creating an adventure game, it's not a very large technical challenge, for the most part. 7-8 quality devs for 8 months? I can believe they could bust out an adventure game, at a low fidelity art style. The biggest costs to an adventure game would be asset creation. Drawing everything, or modelling everything. That's where the money will go primarily.