Double Fine was seeking $400,000 on Kickstarter for its new adventure game, but met with some surprising results.
“After raking in the first million within 24 hours of the announcement of the project on Kickstarter, game developer Double Fine and Tim Schafer have just closed out the funding round on the crowd-sourced fundraising tool and collected exactly $3,336,371 over a 35-day period,” reports Digital Trends.
The new funds will allow the company to release the game on more platforms and multiple languages.
Originally intended only as a PC game, current plans now include Mac, Linux, iOS and Android versions.
“Since Double Fine has proven that a game can be completely financed by fans, other game developers are likely going to flock to the fundraising platform with new projects,” notes the post. “Phil Fish, designer of the upcoming XBLA-exclusive release ‘Fez,’ is contemplating a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a new game that won’t be headed to the Xbox platform… Since Fish won’t be able to collect revenue from sales of ‘Fez’ until the game is approved and released on the Xbox 360, he can raise the money required for the new project within a month on Kickstarter rather than wait three to five months to get paid by Microsoft.”
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