Tim Shafer continues to spend the money collected on Kickstarter last year on creating projects that are not related to quests.
While everyone is waiting for new adventure games from the author of Full Throttle and Grim Fandango, his team is experimenting with genres and game mechanics. In the last three years alone, Double Fine has released 9 projects. And not a single quest.
Last year, when Shafer went on Kickstarter with Broken Age, it seemed that everything would change in the near future. But it didn’t happen. After collecting more than $3.3 million, Double Fine managed to release the Middle Manager of Justice sim, the Kinect Party casual, The Cave platformer and the Dropchord puzzle.
Moreover, before the release of the latter on PC and Mac, Schafer announced that there was not enough money for Broken Age. Therefore, the adventure game will be released in two parts.
Difficulties with financing, apparently, do not prevent the company from releasing small projects, as well as porting them to mobile devices. One of such projects is the Dropchord musical puzzle just mentioned, specially designed for the Leap Motion device, a kind of Kinect analog for personal computers. Dropchord is going to Doble Fine next week and is going to launch on the App Store and Google Play.
The essence of the game boils down to the following: a circle is depicted on the screen, the user puts one finger of the left hand and one finger of the right on its contour. A string appears between the fingers inside the circle. By changing the position of the fingers, the user changes the position of the string. The task is to collect bonuses arising inside the circle with this string.
The game will be released on iOS and Android on August 1 at a price of $2.99.
Sources: pocketgamer.co.uk