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Double Fine Productions is definitely worth checking out. They've recently released Broken Age, a successfully-kickstarted effort. Act I is out now and is absol

by Osmium 12y ago

Double Fine Productions is definitely worth checking out. They've recently released Broken Age, a successfully-kickstarted effort. Act I is out now and is absolutely wonderful (in my personal opinion), with Act II still in development. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Age For those not in the know, Double Fine Productions was founded by Tim Schafer, who is ex-LucasArts and was lead on Grim Fandango and heavily involved in the Monkey Island series too.

bentcorner 12y ago
I just finished Act I last night. Amazing game, and regrettably (although understandably) too short. It's been years since I've played a good adventure game, and Broken Age definitely scratched that itch. I played the latter half of Shay's storyline with my daughter (she was amused by the teleporter's side effects), we're going to replay Vella's storyline since she missed that part.
- valvar 12y ago
  I found Broken Age to be terrible. Visually it was not too bad, but the great puzzles and whacky humour were almost entirely gone. A small fraction remained, but definitely not enough to motivate the price - especially when considering the length. A game that did manage to get it almost entirely right, though (not extremely visually appealing when compared to 2d art, but still decent), is The Book of Unwritten Tales (and also its prequel, though I did not like it quite as much). Oh, and there is actually a ton of fantastic, and free, adventure games made by amateurs over here: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/ http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/ People don't talk about the games made by the AGS community too much, and they keep a lot to themselves, which is a pity, because there are some true gems there.
  - Chattered 12y ago
    http://www.sizefivegames.com/games/ben-there-dan-that/ http://www.sizefivegames.com/games/ben-there-dan-that/ It's an extremely self-referential parody of adventure games, made by guys who clearly love the genre. I found it a lot of fun.
ekianjo 12y ago
> For those not in the know, Double Fine Productions was founded by Tim Schafer, who is ex-LucasArts and was lead on Grim Fandango and heavily involved in the Monkey Island series too. Ron Gilbert was also involved in Broken Age, as far as I know.
- jlees 12y ago
  I don't think Ron was involved much on Broken Age. He's been working on his own games more recently, including The Cave (at DF) and Scurvy Scallywags (indie).

by Osmium 12y ago

bentcorner 12y ago

I just finished Act I last night. Amazing game, and regrettably (although understandably) too short. It's been years since I've played a good adventure game, and Broken Age definitely scratched that itch. I played the latter half of Shay's storyline with my daughter (she was amused by the teleporter's side effects), we're going to replay Vella's storyline since she missed that part.

valvar 12y ago
I found Broken Age to be terrible. Visually it was not too bad, but the great puzzles and whacky humour were almost entirely gone. A small fraction remained, but definitely not enough to motivate the price - especially when considering the length. A game that did manage to get it almost entirely right, though (not extremely visually appealing when compared to 2d art, but still decent), is The Book of Unwritten Tales (and also its prequel, though I did not like it quite as much). Oh, and there is actually a ton of fantastic, and free, adventure games made by amateurs over here: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/ http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/ People don't talk about the games made by the AGS community too much, and they keep a lot to themselves, which is a pity, because there are some true gems there.
- Chattered 12y ago
  http://www.sizefivegames.com/games/ben-there-dan-that/ http://www.sizefivegames.com/games/ben-there-dan-that/ It's an extremely self-referential parody of adventure games, made by guys who clearly love the genre. I found it a lot of fun.

ekianjo 12y ago

> For those not in the know, Double Fine Productions was founded by Tim Schafer, who is ex-LucasArts and was lead on Grim Fandango and heavily involved in the Monkey Island series too. Ron Gilbert was also involved in Broken Age, as far as I know.

jlees 12y ago
I don't think Ron was involved much on Broken Age. He's been working on his own games more recently, including The Cave (at DF) and Scurvy Scallywags (indie).