Have you ever had one of those days where you just feel like doing whatever the hell you want, talk about whatever the hell you want, and listen to pop music? We do too! Join us this week as we chit-chat on mic, field some questions from our listeners, and have a good old free-for-all. We’re talking everything from sci-fi to questionable adventures in drinking on a brand new and unstructured episode of Monkey in the Cage!
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So two days ago Double Fine Productions, a fairly large and well known game company decided to try something interesting. They started a Kickstarter page in an effort to fund a new point-and-click adventure they wanted to work on. Now for those of you that don’t know, two of the greats in the era of point-and-click adventures work at Double Fine, Tim Schafer of Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion: Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, and Psychonauts fame, and Ron Gilbert of Manian Mansion, Zac McKraken, Monkey Island, Indiana Jones, and Deathspank fame.
Double Fine’s Kickstarter page started with the seemingly astronomical funding goal of $400,000, but with such heavy talent on board they shattered that amount in mere hours. As of right now with 32 days left they are sitting at $1,098,594. While all of this is awesome for Double Fine, I think it might actually be a bigger boon to all of the smaller creators who are attempting to fund first time or long awaited projects through Kickstarter.
When I first heard about Kickstarter years ago I thought it was a great idea, but I never really went beyond that. I have now started digging through a number of gaming projects and I am amazed at all of the small time companies with big ideas that are now able to get their products out to the wider world now. There are card games such as Skittykitts which the creator says he created just to have some fun with friends and now he has enough money to create nice boxed copies.
There are a wide range of table top projects waiting to be funded, which vary from The Tomb of Kochun, a custom Pathfinder module just looking for funding to pay an artist, to Lions of the North, a from the ground up brand new RPG looking to fund everything. Kickstarter is an awesome way to find and help new games out there and you get the benefit of knowing you helped a new project off the ground.
If you have a few bones to spare, I suggest you head over to the games page of Kickstarter and see if there is anything worthy of your hard earned cash.
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Tagged costume quest, day of the tentacle, Deathspank, double fine, doublefine, full throttle, grim fandango, Indiana Jones, kickstarter, lions of the north, maniac mansion, monkey island, Pathfinder, psychonauts, ron gilbert, skittykitts, tim schafer, zac mckraken
In this day and age of online gaming and social media, we geeks have it sweet in the ability to jump on our PC’s or consoles with people from around the world and wreak havoc upon AI foes or one another in any number of settings no matter what time of day it is. Whether it’s banding together for a raid in World of Warcraft, or failing miserably to save the world in a game of Pandemic, one of the best gaming experiences a gamer can have is when teamwork with you closest friends brings sweet, sweet victory or amusingly humiliating defeat.
Join us this week as we shotgun blast your ears with our numerous (and we mean numerous!) experiences with Co-Op gameplay. From video games to board games to tabletop RPG’s, we hit it fast, hard, and chaotic, just like Leeroy Jenkins himself. Plug in and listen up, because the Co-Op memories just keep coming!
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