[Updated] News: Double Fine's Broken Age Backers & Official Release

Double Fine has announced the official release date for their point and click adventure for the regular public.  Kickstarter backers will be getting Part 1 early, but the rest of us will have to wait until January 28.  The option to pre-purchase is already available on Steam with a 10% special promotion.  It will be for Windows, Mac, and Linux.  Part 2 will be coming later this year as a free update.

• Pre-purchase Broken Age: $22.49
• Pre-purchase Broken Age + Soundtrack: $26.99

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Double Fine went to Kickstarter to see if fans would give their support for their new video game, Broken Age.  Their initial goal was $400,000, but it was exceeded by nearly 3 million.  The project was started back in March of 2012, and some backers and fans of the studio have questioned the hiccups during the development phase.  2 Player Productions has been documenting and releasing update videos as the game's development progressed.  It was revealed last year that the game would be broken up into two parts, instead of one final, whole product.  Double Fine claimed that leaving the game as is would have pushed the release into 2015, and by splitting it into parts backers would have quicker access to content.  It seems the change paid off in the long run.  Part 1 of Broken Age will be available to backers as early as next week.

Broken Age is a point and click adventure, following the two stories of a young boy and girl who lead parallel lives.  The girl has been chosen to be sacrificed to a monster; she must fight back in order to survive.  The boy is living on a spaceship and is being cared for by a computer; however, he wants to break free and do more in life.  Both story-lines seem to entail breaking tradition, or aspiring to achieve freedom in some form.  The art style looks fantastic, and indicated by screenshots on Broken Age's website, it appears that the player will make some dialogue choices.

I'm looking forward to hear what backers think of the game.  Unfortunately, I hadn't found out about the project before it was too late to fund through Kickstarter.  Nevertheless, if feedback for the game is overall positive, I might have to pick it up when it releases for the average public.  Point and click adventures are pretty enjoyable when the right people are behind it, and the worlds the player will explore in this sound intriguing.

*image from Google Images

*source from Game Informer

*additional source Game Informer