(Kickstarter) Broken Sword - The Serpent's Curse

[Cantih]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...urse-adventure

It's by Revolution Software
It's 2D

This is all that needs to be said.

Yet still, this is a QUALITY point & click adventure series, and Rev has gotten the shaft by publishers most of it's existence. This allows you to get your ass behind another good studio, AND get a game.

[6souls]

needs more trailer

[Kaisha]

Not digging that they're using pre-rendered 3d models for this instead of traditional animation, but whatever, I want more Broken Sword, and that method they're going by is probably cheaper in the long term of the project. Donated.

[brozy]

there was a 4th one? after the 3rd i gave up on Broken Sword...just felt it was pretty bad but shall keep my eye on this for a bit

[Kaisha]

3rd one was pretty bad because of bad design choices in the shift to 3d. Everything took much longer than it should have because you couldn't easily scan a scene for objects you could interact with (fucking tank controls), combined with being unable to see an entire scene in one go since the camera would move around with you on a lot of locations, requiring you to run your character over every nook and cranny just to make sure there isn't a hidden spot on the scene. It all ended up making the game twice as long as it should have been, which fucked with the pacing.

Escape from Monkey Island suffered from a lot of the same problems, but it stuck with static backgrounds, which made it faster to sort everything out on a given scene. At least this new Broken Sword entry appears to take a note from other recent P&C adventures and just keep things simple with the presentation. Will adapt much better to tablet devices this way as a bonus.

For me, it's kinda impressive this studio is still alive and kicking even though they've only made 8 new games over the period of 22 years, and they've never really been a big-named renown studio outside of striking it good w/ Beneath a Steel Sky and the original two Broken Swords way the hell back.

Spoiler: show

I wonder what the gag item for this entry will be.

[Cantih]

Good news everybody, it hit funding with half the time left.

Better news
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/...8?ref=activity

IF IT HITS 1 MILLION, BENEATH A STEEL SKY 2 GETS MADE.

[rezn0r]

thanks for the heads up, to be honest i haven't played a broken sword game yet (although i do own all of them that are available on steam), the beneath a steel sky 2 thing did it for me. so double-win. love good adventure games.

[Kaisha]

Curious if the 1mil is enough to fund/start BaSS2, or if it's enough for them to warrant starting another Kickstarter for it specifically.

[Cantih]

Updates

At 4 days left, they're now at 610k. 40k to next stretch to add more locations to the game.

Also, new stretch at 700k and an addition to the 800k.
Choosing randomly from ALL backers, a backers likeness will be used for characters in the game. A story participating cafe NPC for 800k, and Nico's neighbor at 800k. (Also 800k expands the game.)

So, if you want a chance at getting your mug into a game, go support this stuff.