Double Fine only recently unveiled the final title for their Kickstarter success story, which was previously dubbed Double Fine Adventure. Broken Age is a return to the classic point-and-click adventure games that dominated the gaming landscape during the nineties. Along with the title reveal, we got a single piece of artwork that showed a very stylised artistic direction for the game.

The first trailer for Broken Age has now been released, but it’s more like a teaser than anything else as it doesn’t show off an awful lot. In the trailer you get to see both of the game’s main characters, who still remain nameless; it’s looking more and more likely that we’ll be controlling both during the game.

I think I still need to get used to that art style, but how about that music, huh? Intriguing!

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Sticking with PAX East news, this past weekend saw Tim Schafer’s development studio finally getting around to revealing the game people paid $3.3 million for over Kickstarter. Yes, we’re talking about THE Double Fine Adventure that launched a zillion Kickstarter campaigns thanks to its unmitigated success in mainlining colossal development funds into the project. The only thing is it’s not called Double Fine Adventure any longer; it’s now called Broken Age.

The game’s official website went live over the weekend. Aside from the first taste of artistic direction and a brief plot synopsis, there’s not much to go on. It sounds as if you might be playing two characters throughout the game, kind of like earlier LucasArts projects that Shafer was involved with.

“Broken Age is a point-and-click adventure telling the stories of a young boy and girl leading 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. Adventures ensue.”

Sounds kind of serious, doesn’t it? Let’s hope there’s some humour crammed in there somewhere.

Source: BrokenAge.com

This has been around for a while, but I noticed we’ve not yet revealed it to your point-’n'-clicking heart on this fine, upstanding website. I really feel we should, so here goes.

What it is, is Tim Schafer and former boss/mentor Ron Gilbert discussing the past, present and future of old-school adventuring, all in the name of making the Double Fine Adventure the finest adventure it can be. This was filmed a few weeks before the launch of that insane Kickstarter project (link and link). It’s lengthy viewing at just over 35 minutes, but if you’ve got the time and grew up on such games as Maniac Mansion, or the Monkey Island series, or Full Throttle, or Grim Fandango, or any of the fondly remembered adventure games of yore, then, like me, you’ll find the video beyond the break utterly fascinating.

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Huh, pretty well then. At time of posting this, their Kickstarter campaign to fund a new adventure game is sitting on $2,034,003. It’ll undoubtedly be bigger in the next twenty seconds.

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