Broken Age is the beautiful tale of time and young minds encapsulated in a sinister, mature world that has been dressed in deceit. Released in two parts, Tim Schafer and the team at Double Fine Productions began their venture on the point and click adventure game in 2012 and aimed to raise 400k worth of funds on the popular crowd-funding platform, Kickstarter. After just 8 hours the target was met and Double Fine went on to make over \u00a33million.<\/p>\n
There was a demand for Broken Age, because the generation that experienced Tim Schafer\u2019s point and click games, including Monkey Island, Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle and Grim Fandango were hungry for more. Although the Kickstarter campaign caused controversy surrounding the use of the funds raised and the fact that supporters were not given a full game on the estimated release date, but instead Broken Age was released in two parts, it didn\u2019t stop the game producing the same nostalgic magic that we hoped it would.<\/p>\n
Tim Schafer\u2019s opening statement on the Kickstarter page describes point and clicks as a lost art and it does chew me up that expectations for this genre were prevalent throughout the production and it\u2019s a bitter sweet moment, that it was all we hoped for, if just late. We couldn\u2019t falter Tim Schafer on the transparency in the creation of Broken Age as he had the process documented start to finish, from the rough sketches of the two main characters sitting back to back, to the office celebrating the successful Kickstarter campaign.<\/p>\n