Given how much I'm starting to like Metroidvanias, I guess I have no choice. I'll either wait for another discount or just buy it at full price.

Thank You Bus Driver has officially crossed 25K wishlists on Steam! A huge thank you to everyone who has taken the time to wishlist! We can’t wait for you to be an appreciated and valued public transit employee ready to SLAP any rule breakers.

If you haven't wishlisted yet, don't forget to do it here. Every wishlist helps push the game out!

And are you a content creator who is also looking for some slap-happy fun? We have just opened up our Keymailer campaign (link here), where you can request a code for launch. We can't wait to get some of you behind the wheel and enforcing the rules of the road!

A little less than two weeks left to go, drivers -- see you then!

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Actually, before we announce it, we just want to express another huge thanks to everyone who has backed, tried out our demos, and generally shown us support in the last few months. It has been both an exciting and trying time for Team Double Fine and we truly couldn't have made it through without you all. A particularly special shoutout to everyone who has sent an encouraging message on Discord, comment on Kickstarter, or on any of our socials.

Now, for what you all have been waiting for... the winning game!

It was a close race, and each game had its staunch supporters. 

We tabulated carefully.

Multiplied even more carefully. 

Carried the one (probably, I don't know, I didn't do the math).

And the winner is...

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🛡️PLOT ARMOR🛡️! ! ! !

A huge congratulations to Team Plot Armor for their hard work, to Lauren Scott for her excellent leadership, and to you all for picking an amazing winner!

And another huge congrats to Team Architactics, Team Bard Crawl, and Team Uprise for creating full, playable demos in just two weeks of work, and making sure that there was no wrong choice for voters, just preference. 🧡 We hope you all had as much fun playing these demos as we had making them!

If your favorite game didn't win (maybe didn't even make the top four!), that's okay! Because you never know with an Amnesia Fortnight pitch-- sometimes, they end up becoming full games later, like Stacking. Sometimes, they get reconfigured and implemented in other games, like how The Gods Must Be Hungry turned into Psychonauts 2's Compton's Cookoff. And, with the creation of Double Fine Action Labs, maybe a publisher or a rich investor** will call us up and insist we work on your favorite fun-sized game!

**If you know any rich investors or publishers looking for cool game ideas to fund, we're assuming you've already told them about us. They're probably writing us an email right now saying they love indie games and want to bankroll a baker's dozen of these pitches. We look forward to their message! 

The team will start to work on the final winner soon, and (if we can snag them) we'll keep you updated on their progress as the game develops!

Until then, don't forget to join us on Discord to discuss the results! 

Love,

The Double Fine Team 🧡

Backers are now in the final hours of voting for the winning prototype, which will be announced tomorrow!

Hey Folks!

A massive congratulations to Double Fine on reaching their campaign goal! Also, a massive congratulations to each and every one of you that made this possible! You should all be very proud. I can’t wait to see the documentary, and of course receive my goodies!

Hi everyone.

Full disclosure: I used an AI model within Cursor to develop this. I'm a decent software engineer by trade but this would have taken absolutely ages or even been beyond me.

It's a very simple little script that patches a few bytes of the game's executable after backing it up first. Running it again will restore the game back to how it was (or you could use Steam to repair the file integrity).

I haven't thoroughly tested it yet as this will be my first play through and I couldn't enjoy it at 30fps - hence me getting the AI to make this. I'm hoping it all works fine and it looks much better from my initial tests at least.

The file can be found here in the "Game Patches" folder as a ZIP file. Just unzip it into your game's folder as per the README.md file and then run the .BAT file (Windows) or the .SH file (Linux).

Any problems, please do let me know and I'll see what I can do.

Thanks.

Hey Folks!
The Kickstarter is now in its final 24hrs! Less than 10k is needed for the next stretch goal, I really hope it reaches it. Also, if you have backed this project, make sure to vote for the game you would like to win!

Hey Folks! Hope you are all keeping well. Now I just want to clarify in no way is this post to stir up any arguments or negativity, I’m just very confused by this whole scenario. Now I’ve backed this project as I have been a long time fan of Double Fine’s games, especially their earlier works, so the process of how their games are created and developed interest me (the same for the game industry as a whole), so I’m very interested in the documentary.

Now I am a big gamer, I have been for over 20+ years, however I don’t always keep up to date with gaming news, controversy, etc. Could someone please explain to me what the backlash surrounding Erika is about? Just to clarify, I’m not familiar with Erika’s work.

Double Fine have added a bunch of new add ons to their Kickstarter campaign with under 48hrs to go.

I like the look of some of their art prints, especially the Brutal Legend one, do you guys recon the print is signed or unsigned?

I voted on the initial pitches and that’s it.

Not really one for the live show format so am just waiting for the full doc

not reading emails to avoid “spoilers”. Any word on timeline’s for when some sort of episodic doc might be ready?

Update: THEY DID IT! Thank you to the mystery Board Game Sesh backer who took them well past the stretch goal!!!

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As you may have heard, Double Fine Productions are running a Kickstarter to increase their runway as they relaunch their life as an indie game dev studio. This has been built around this year's Amnesia Fortnight (game jam), which concluded this week – but it's not over yet!!

Backers are currently playing the four prototypes before voting for one game to receive a further period of development and polishing, to then be released to the general public for everyone to enjoy. Back now and you too can play these prototypes and vote on the winner!

At the time of writing, they are only $8,439 away from reaching their next stretch goal of $600,000; if they reach this, then They have just reached their stretch goal of $600,000, which means the superb Erika Ishii (Ghost of Yōtei) will generously donate their time and talents as a voice in the winning game. Previous successful stretch goals have included frequent Double Fine-game composer Peter McConnell (Psychonauts, Broken Age) contributing music to the winning game, and an extra vote on a special feature in the winning game.

Double Fine are a very special studio for many of us, known for their incredibly creative and eclectic range of games over the last quarter of a century, as well as their comprehensive in-house documentaries produced by the team at 2 Player Productions that explore the ins and outs (and ups and downs) of game development. 2PP have also been documenting this latest Amnesia Fortnight, and you'll get to see more about how that went over the coming months.

So please take a look at the range of pledge tiers and backer rewards available, and consider backing if you're able to! More funds mean more polish and (most importantly) more runway!

If you've played the prototypes: which ones have you enjoyed the most?

^{Just like Amnesia Fortnight, this post contains zero AI-generated material.}

I ended up re-downloading Brutal Legend for the first time in years a few weeks ago, and I wanted to share a video I made on why exactly it deserves to be remembered for what it was. We may never get a proper sequel, but this game hold up by itself really well, even all these years later.

Hi everybody!

I've contributed to the Amnesia Fortnight Kickstarter and downloaded the demos.

I haven't had enough time to test them but I had an issue with Uprise.

I usually play with a PS5 controller on my computer and... It's not working. The game doesn't detect my controller.

I was wondering what controller you were using?

(Have an issue also with Plot Armor where Windows doesn't launch the game, but that's another story)

Thanks for your answers 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Got blocked by Double Fine on Instagram after commenting "Love Erika" on one of their recent posts. No insults or anything. Just showing my support. 😐

Just wanted to share

Now I know I know, why do I think this? Well let me get it straightened out. So Dia De Los Muertos right, they make fun of death, and also place Calaveritas on graves which is a candy skull. People also write Calaveras which make fun of death saying that "death" is coming for them. Calaveras means skulls and alone, Calavera means skull which so happens to be Manuel Calaveras last name. And in the beginning of the game, there's an Dia De Los Muertos festival which can be referenced in the future. Which proves that Manuel "Manny" Calavera is an nod to Dia De Los Muertos. ( I dare Tim Schafer to tell me I'm wrong, that's if I am. )

First I would like to say that I love Erika, and I love her voice acting work, and he stuff in dropout.

Now, doublefine being the company that they are. There's no reason they cant hire her themselves. There's clearly other voice actors in the game that are being paid for by the company, so locking a voice actor behind a stretch goal just screams that they need to squeeze more money from their player base. Shit a kick starter stretch goal is just a battlepass with no game.

What's going to happen/would happej if her stretch goal wasn't met? She'll probably still be in the game because she was already paid or still volunteer. If they truly can't afford to cast her after leaving Xbox, then it just screams they don't have a clue how to manage their budget there

Thats my whole tirade

She just seems very fake and not genuine, that's why lots of people are not happy with the choice they've made

It's not always politics and stuff

i am left, but she still is very unlikable to me, especially after watching her DnD campaigns

Announced in an impromptu livestream when they reached $550k right at the end of today's stream!

Who has backed this gem of a kickstarter? It’s very rare I find a Kickstarter that really grabs my attention, but this one really has. I love the work that Double Fine do, I feel all of their games have a very unique, fun and eccentric aesthetic to them which really sets them apart from the rest. The fact that not only do you get some really cool rewards with this campaign but the chance to see in depth how these games are made from scratch, in my opinion, is incredible.

If you’re a big fan of Double Fine, which I’m assuming most of you are, I would absolutely recommend checking out their campaign. Sorry for the little preach, just a big fan of their work, such an incredible studio with a great game library under their belts.

What’s your favourite Double Fine game? Let me know! :)

What do you guys think of Kiln? I’ve only just started playing it a couple of days ago but I find it a lot of fun. I think the uniqueness of sculpting your own character is fantastic and offers so much variety and customisation. The multiplayer is a lot of fun, very easy to get the hang of and can be quite challenging at times. I think it’s a great little game and it’s a real shame it never really took off.

It would have been nice to see some sort of single player campaign or offline mode to flesh the game out a little more, however if you have games pass on Xbox and haven’t tried it already, definitely give it a shot!

I talked to Ashley Esqueda from Double Fine at PAX about their new game, new label and new studio identity!

Is that the Raz voice actor on the Red Bull ad I just saw? I'm a better recogniser of voices than faces, and it pulled me from my phone.

I played the demo on PS3 religiously as a kid and the title theme is branded into my auditory cortex, I mean this little demo really left an impression on me. The puzzles are a great mix of character abilities and knowing which order to stack the dolls which leads to some intricate puzzle design. I used to fart on women as the fat guy when I was a kid. It was a different time. Anyways, the stop-motion-esque character animations squeeze as much charm out of matryoshka dolls as conceivably possible, the soundtrack is simply magnificent from start to finish, the dialogue making typewriter clacks is a great aesthetic choice to substitute voice acting and the silent film cutscenes just bring together a loving, handcrafted game that is seeping with attention to detail and craftsmanship. I just found out *while writing this* that it was an Amnesia Fortnight submission and I'm thrilled Double Fine is making headlines again.

I kind of understand why it’s not as popular as it could be. I feel it would be more appealing as a party game if creating pots was a separate part, so if you not into this you could get some premade pot from a gallery and just go straight to the fighting.

I also suspect this could be the reason why there is no split screen currently, because how would you separate pot creation for two players at the same time?

Overall brawling part is super fun and chaotic in a good way and I enjoy it every single time. But it’s become harder and harder to find people on a server, which is super sad. I hope it’s not too late for DF to revive it.