Tim Schafer founded Double Fine in 2000, and brought with him his legacy of point-and-click adventure knowledge. I mean, this is the man that created Grim Fandango. I love the game. 12 years later, Double fine is returning to it’s point-and-click routes through the unconventional path of a Kickstarter Project. They were hoping to raise $400,000 to fund their new game; not a lot in game money, but just enough to make a small throwback to the old days.

Today they hit $2 million. With 22 days to go.

While $400,000 sounds like a lot to make a game, it’s only pennies compared to big budget games. The Double Fine Adventure would have been a quick return to old styles, a satirical jab at why Full Throttle-esque games aren’t made any more. $2 million places the game in a very different place.

Tim revealed last week on Giantbomb that $2 million was the budget for their recent downloadable titles Costume Quest & Stacking, and that the Kickstarter Project had already raised more than their budgets for old SCUMM adventures. Hopefully what this means is that we can expect this new game to be on a similar length and production value of those games. A four hour, voiced, original music-ed, Tim Schafer written adventure game. I’m very excited.

What’s more, funding the Kickstarter project will also lead to the creation of a documentary by 2 Player Productions, makers of the Minecraft documentary. They’ll be there to follow the progress of the game, and give a rare insight not only into the making of a video game, but what goes on inside Double Fine Towers. I expect green screen shenanigans. I almost demand it.

With the game scheduled for a release later this year, it’s still a long way off, but the production and making-of documentary should start in the next few months. It’s coming on all PC formats and mobile devices too. Until then, enjoy this update on the product from Tim Schafer himself.

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