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Double Fine Adventure is Now Called Broken Age 24 Mar, 2013 / 7 comments

Double Fine Adventure is now called Broken Age.

It's a story of a boy and a girl living parallel lives. The girl has been chosen by her village to be sacrificed to a terrible monster--but she decides to fight back. Meanwhile, a boy on a spaceship is living a solitary life under the care of a motherly computer, but he wants to break free to lead adventures and do good in the world.

If you missed the kickstarter, the game can be pre-ordered from its website. You can either preorder the game (DRM free) for $15 for Windows, Mac, and Linux and get access to the beta once it's available. Or pre-order for $30 to become a backer. Backer status includes the game, private backer-only discussion forums on Double Fine's message boards, all past and ongoing episodes of 2 Player Productions' documentary series following the development of the game, a wealth of development materials from the Double Fine team, a digital soundtrack, and beta access once available.

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    SurplusGamer on 25 Mar, 2013, 09:30…

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    salty-horse

    Is that the Sierra Half Dome logo on the left? :)

    Does anyone feel like the name is not very evocative like older Double Fine / LucasArts? Maybe I'm being nostalgic but it doesn't seem to pique my curiosity. It's like a mashup of Broken Sword and Dragon Age.



    I do think that it's a little nostalgia in play. I'm not in love with the name either, but I don't think 'The Dig' really evoked the full mystery of that game, and I think 'Full Throttle' sounds rather generic when you match it up against the weird semi-futuristic bike-centric world presented, and so forth. I suppose there were some names that immediately clicked for me, like Grim Fandango, but I can't say that all the titles I heard from that time were immediately exciting.



    Oh, yeah, and even Double Fine ones - I used to think Stacking was a very dull name, but now I'm fine with it. And Costume Quest is descriptive but not that imaginative..
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    SurplusGamer on 25 Mar, 2013, 09:28…

    salty-horse

    Is that the Sierra Half Dome logo on the left? :)

    Does anyone feel like the name is not very evocative like older Double Fine / LucasArts? Maybe I'm being nostalgic but it doesn't seem to pique my curiosity. It's like a mashup of Broken Sword and Dragon Age.



    I do think that it's a little nostalgia in play. I'm not in love with the name either, but I don't think 'The Dig' really evoked the full mystery of that game, and I think 'Full Throttle' sounds rather generic when you match it up against the weird semi-futuristic bike-centric world presented, and so forth. I suppose there were some names that immediately clicked for me, like Grim Fandango, but I can't say that all the titles I heard from that time were immediately exciting.
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    AlfredJ on 25 Mar, 2013, 06:26…
    counting_pine: Good find! The new logo does look better though.

    I agree with what the others said, not quite as catchy as Tim's older game titles. Still, that art on the website looks supersweet. Can't wait for this.
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    Jason on 25 Mar, 2013, 02:50…
    Woooo.
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    counting_pine on 25 Mar, 2013, 02:25…
    Very excited about the game. I'm not sure about the 'Broken Age' name yet though - it doesn't (yet?) sound like a 'Grim Fandango' kind of name. I think it could easily have been slapped onto a massive-scale fantasy RPG But time will tell..

    Side note: I notice the logo image is called 'brokenage_logo_new.png'
    So for perhaps a limited time, you can check out the beta logo at http://www.brokenagegame.com/images/brokenage_logo.png.
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    salty-horse on 24 Mar, 2013, 23:12…
    Is that the Sierra Half Dome logo on the left? :)

    Does anyone feel like the name is not very evocative like older Double Fine / LucasArts? Maybe I'm being nostalgic but it doesn't seem to pique my curiosity. It's like a mashup of Broken Sword and Dragon Age.
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    Kroms on 24 Mar, 2013, 20:10…
    I'm looking forward to this a whole lot. I just realized yesterday how much I miss a good adventure game.

    > to the beta once it's___

    Someone ate a word there.

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