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Double Fine / The Dark Side of Kickstarter by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/09/2012, 7:17am PST I have never seen as many tweets about something as I have with Double Fine breaking $400,000 in crowdsourced Kickstarter money this morning. People really like Tim Schaefer's games! Good for him. Here's a link to their page. They've passed $538K as I type this up. Now, Double Fine is fairly trustworthy. They've shipped games before and they've been good ones. Not every project that gets funded on Kickstarter is so successful and slime-free. I say this not because I want to denigrate Double Fine, I say this because of the hundreds of articles written about Kickstarter today, nobody else will point out the projects that have taken the money and ran with it. (Fake Edit: They made sixty thousand dollars in the time it took me to write this post this morning.) the dark and gritty...Ice Cream Jonsey

Double Fine / The Dark Side of Kickstarter by Ice Cream Jonsey 02/09/2012, 7:17am PST     Cambridge graphic designer BOOP BOOP NT by hipster detector 02/09/2012, 7:50am PST     Who could have guessed the master of unlocking would turn out to be a thief? by Tansin A. Darcos (TDARCOS) 02/09/2012, 2:44pm PST         ITT tdarcos breaks character by Last 02/10/2012, 1:40pm PST             Except he IS Jerry! WHOA NT by Fussbett 02/11/2012, 12:24pm PST     Kickstarter is out of control by motherfuckerfoodeater 02/10/2012, 12:35pm PST         Re: Kickstarter is out of control by E. L. Koba 03/31/2012, 3:26pm PDT     looking forward to saturation and the lemons problem by jeep 02/10/2012, 4:32pm PST         Oh, we got lemons by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/01/2012, 10:25am PDT             the prospect of another leisure suit larry game should be enough by jeep 04/03/2012, 12:53pm PDT     Leisure Suit Larry Kickstarter by Siskel and Ebert 04/03/2012, 4:10am PDT         Al Lowe is still bitter that Magna cum-laude was funnier than any of his efforts NT by fabio 04/03/2012, 10:45am PDT             Re: Al Lowe is still bitter that Magna cum-laude was funnier than an by JOHN K. HUDAK <jkhudak@lycos.com> 04/03/2012, 12:00pm PDT                 Re: Al Lowe is still bitter that Magna cum-laude was funnier than an by laudablepuss 04/03/2012, 12:54pm PDT         Al Lowe trying to get Roberta Williams back in the hot tub. by motherfuckerfoodeater 04/10/2012, 6:10pm PDT             I wish she wouldn't by jeep 04/10/2012, 9:52pm PDT                 I know it's not her but: quest for glory was 100 times better than kq NT by jeep 04/10/2012, 9:52pm PDT                     QFQ should win an award for being full of puns whilst not sucking NT by Entropy Stew 04/12/2012, 4:18am PDT                 Re: I wish she wouldn't by Ice Cream Jonsey 04/11/2012, 7:30am PDT                     none of the non Quest for Glory Sierra games have aged well by fabio 04/11/2012, 8:49am PDT                     Re: I wish she wouldn't by jeep 04/11/2012, 5:26pm PDT                         IV and VI had two different endings, I guess that's sorta flexible by Siskel and Ebert 04/11/2012, 9:53pm PDT                             There were a ton of those in KQV by fabio 04/12/2012, 6:22am PDT                             Oh but then again by jeep 04/12/2012, 9:49am PDT                                 Re: Oh but then again by Cyril Badman 04/12/2012, 12:22pm PDT                                     Re: Oh but then again by By Mennen 04/12/2012, 7:38pm PDT                     Re: I wish she wouldn't by Cyril Badman 04/12/2012, 12:23pm PDT