Double Fine’s Next Game Comes Out on February 1

@Death_Unicorn said:

I lack a Kinect :(

@chilibean_3 said:

But is it really a game? Like, what is this thing?

It's a bunch of silly mini games designed for drunk people at parties.

I was excited until I saw the screenshot. :(

@chilibean_3 said:

But is it really a game? Like, what is this thing?

It's a bunch of silly mini games designed for drunk people at parties.

@siavm said:

Either most of you like motion controlled shovelware or your blinded by the fact double fine is making it. This is going to be crap. Kinect is awful. The only redeeming thing about it is dance central. And if you say other wise, try to convince me that going 9 feet back and waving like a crazy person is easier and more convenient than using a controller.

Nobody expects this to be awesome. Anyone expressing excitement over it probably listened to the discussion about it on the Bombcast -- it's just a stupid thing. It's a product that revels in the stupidity and ineptitude of the Kinect. Nobody expects it to be good, they expect it to be entertaining.

I can't believe this game was developed in San Francisco. Don't they know none of us have that sort of room in our house? =(

hows about my trenched dlc before you work on that crappy camera bs

I have no interest in buying anything Kinect related, but I do have interest in watching the people of Whiskey Media and their friends at Double Fine make asses of themselves for the amusement of people via internet web base video media. So I do hope that regardless of the quality of the product so absurd and entertaining footage will be produced for it.

Wait, I thought my subscription fee removed the ads from this website!

In all seriousness though folks, Double Fine is a great guy, great guy.

Schafer is TRYING to push forward a Psychonauts sequel but he can't find a publisher. These small, downloadable games are all they can afford at this moment.

But Ron Gilbert is working on a "secret" project for DF, and we all know what Gilbert + Schafer equals...

The only game on Kinect I really wanna play.

Finally I can justify a kinect.

Gonna wait for the QL

I never thought a day would come that I would stop caring when a new Double Fine game was announced, but here it is.

This direction of game development must be making them money so I am happy for them, but I just cannot stop wishing they were making something else entirely.

Either most of you like motion controlled shovelware or your blinded by the fact double fine is making it. This is going to be crap. Kinect is awful. The only redeeming thing about it is dance central. And if you say other wise, try to convince me that going 9 feet back and waving like a crazy person is easier and more convenient than using a controller.

i hope the studio doesnt go the way of rare there games are so awesom sadly a litttle too quirky for there own good

id like to see what an fps made by tim shacfer would look like hes great with comedy have it be a satire of the genre and i would buy it in a heart beat

Really Double Fine? Really?

Kinect.@DarthOrange said:

So when is Microsoft going to quit the foreplay and just buy Double Fine?

Cheaper for Microsoft to use them as outside contractors. No paying for health care, retirement, etc.

On the game itself: Some of these look like blatant rip-offs of demos indie Kinect devs did months ago.

I'll be doing this:

Scrubs 99 Luftballons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cg-vUGFz9Jk

I miss the old Double Fine that made "real" games.

Where's Psychonauts 2 Tim? Where is it?

@Mento said:

Kinect games always make for good QLs. I'm hoping some fellows from Double Fine show up to participate.

Microsoft should be paying GB for being one of the few media outlets that makes the Kinect palatable, if unintentionally.

I think you've cracked the code.

How can anyone hate it when the game makes it so the floor is lava?... Come on, THE FLOOR IS LAVA! i demand a drunk quick look.

its just the playroom mode from the eyetoy only on rapid fire.... the kinect is just the eyetoy 2.0

I will get this!

I am so stoked to get my friends drunk and mess around with this.

This looks awesome to me. A way to make people think they are losing their minds.

@ProfessorEss said:

As a Kinect owner and long-time fanboy of Schafer and Doublefine I was really excited for this, but I got my son Once Upon A Monster for Christmas and it is easily the worst controlling Kinect game I've played to date. Now I'm pretty skeptical about it.

That's really sad to hear. From GB's play of it I didn't get the impression that was going to be an issue. It seemed such a good fit for kids otherwise.

Trailer for this looks bat-shit insane.

Oh yeah, this thing. It sounded interesting when they were talking about it on a Bombcast episode or something a while ago. Sounded like sheer insanity, which I can get behind, and like they're focusing on the weird buggy things on Kinect and exploiting them.

Mind you, I haven't enjoyed a single one of Double Fine's games before, but hey. Good on them.

Considering Double Fine has been busting their ass all over the place in the past year (Stacking + DLC, Iron Bridade + DLC, Once Upon A Monster, Steam Achievements + Mac version of Psychonauts, Psychonauts iPhone app) I'm perfectly okay with them taking a bit of a backseat and making something with so few restrictions and making the Kinect a better experience for those that have it.

However, I don't have a Kinect. So while I'm glad it exists, I'm dying to hear about what else they're working on.

Geez guys. How do you complain when a studio infamous for its incredibly long production times, steps it up and starts making games rapidly? Wasn't this there whole goal; to, like, make lots of smaller, varying games, but at a more rapid pace?

This is five for five, now, and that's fucking incredible. Obviously each one is headed by a different creative lead or they'd not be able to get them all done on time, but frankly, after the back-to-back release of Iron Brigade (a game about mechs shooting each other) and Once Upon a Monster (a Seaseme Street game about muppets learning to be happy), is it really any surprise that their next project was... like... this thing?

And the next will be different from this. And the next. And the next. That's their design principle; small games, rapid release, unique concepts. They're doing that. With admirable gusto. And you still find ways to complain.

I moved my 360 back to my room which has zero room for the kinect....I don't think I'll be taking it out unless I know more because that screen shot looks like shit.

As a Kinect owner and long-time fanboy of Schafer and Doublefine I was really excited for this, but I got my son Once Upon A Monster for Christmas and it is easily the worst controlling Kinect game I've played to date.  
 
Now I'm pretty skeptical about it.

Kinect games always make for good QLs. I'm hoping some fellows from Double Fine show up to participate.

Microsoft should be paying GB for being one of the few media outlets that makes the Kinect palatable, if unintentionally.

I wonder how much Microsoft is paying Double Fine to keep making Kinect games.

No Kinect here, but god bless Double Fine for attempting to make more than shovelware for the platform.

Doesnt look like a game or anything, but this is a must buy for me. My kids will lose their mind here.

Kinect :X

I lack a Kinect :)

I wonder what comes next. I mean, there's no Double Fine games announced after Action Theatre, right?

Finally, a GD Kinect "game" I might actually get some mileage out of.

Well Double Fine, you lost me. I guess someone will like it, and it gets them in way better graces with Microsoft. I'll probably be sitting this one out nonetheless.

Hopefully all of these money-raking shenanigans of the last few months will result in them eventually getting back to making games.

When's the next multiplatform game? =/
Costume Quest can only last you so long, even with DLC, and Stacking worked far better in concept than execution for me.

So when is Microsoft going to quit the foreplay and just buy Double Fine?

But is it really a game? Like, what is this thing?

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS

T_T

uh no more kinect.