Double Fine Adventure is DRM free, has English voiceover

By Wesley Yin-Poole Published 16 February, 2012

Confirmed platforms: PC, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.

UPDATE: Double Fine will make the DRM-free version of its adventure game an "option to backers on release".

ORIGINAL STORY: Double Fine's kickstarted adventure game will be DRM free, Tim Schafer has announced.

In a video update, the Double Fine boss said the old school point and click adventure game "will be a lot better" as a result of the astonishing amount of money raised through Kickstarter.

At the time of writing Schafer has $1.8 million in his coffers.

The confirmed platforms are PC, Mac, Linux, iOS and "certain" Android phones. The game will have English voiceover and text translated into French, Italian, German and Spanish. Double Fine will launch a closed beta through Steam just for those who have backed the project.

More announcements are expected soon, including information on rewards for those who have funded the game.

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Comments (25) Latest comment 3 months ago

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  • spliffhead #1 3 months ago

    Legend, Tim once sent my son a box of signed goodies from the US as he heard he had hit the Fry bug in Costume Quest.

    Go Double Fine!

  • bad09 #2 3 months ago

    Always up for point & click (try Gemini Rue if you haven't yet point & click fans!) and not having the cancer of the digital age in your product is always sweet, sweet icing on the cake. When is this thing out so I can throw money at him?

  • neilka #3 3 months ago

    Why not throw your money at him now? :)
    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure

  • linksdad #4 3 months ago

    Errrm DRM free, what about protecting my $15 investment!

  • Der_tolle_Emil #5 3 months ago

    @linksdad Nice :)

  • bad09 #6 3 months ago

    @neilka

    Ah I didn't know he was still taking money. I might just do that. Cheers! :)

  • Sodding_Gamer #7 3 months ago

    @linksdad

    Can't win can you. People moan about not having "protection" then you get people moaning about the protection being too "protective"

    It's $15 dollars you horny slut it's gunna be amazing don't you worry! :D
    Edited by Sodding_Gamer at 16/02/12 @ 09:09

  • Subdominator #8 3 months ago

    @linksdad You didn't invest, you gave him $15 in exchange for a Steam code and access to a documentary. Investments are what crowdfunding normally does, you give them your money and get it back (+ interest) after it makes money. Kickstarter is more like some kind of charity.

  • Gahro #9 3 months ago

    Nice to see Eurogamer doesn't listen. Its only DRM free to Kickstarter members. Joe Public will get a DRM laced one.

  • number3son #10 3 months ago

    @Gahro
    Not sure where you're getting your info from, but I'd say that's highly unlikely at best. If 50,000-plus backers are all getting the option of a DRM-free version, it wouldn't make much sense to not offer that same version to everyone else upon release (likely through GOG, I'm guessing). Otherwise, why go through the trouble of making a DRM-free version in the first place?
    Edited by number3son at 16/02/12 @ 09:18

  • bad09 #11 3 months ago

    @Gahro

    Where does it say that? I just read it on his site an his announcement just says he's doing what a lot of devs are doing now having the game DRM free and offering Steamcodes to unlock on Steam if you wish.

    Unless I'm missing it nowhere does it say only to Kickstarters.

  • ZizouFC #12 3 months ago

    A cool prize for a large donation would've been a speaking role in the game.

  • Doctor_What #13 3 months ago

    I spy a conspiracy: this is actually a sly tactic to get hardcore gamers to understand the point of DRM - when it's their money they start caring :D

  • GAmbrose #14 3 months ago

    If it's on Steam then surely it already has a form of DRM?

    I'm not hating on Steam BTW, it's my PC platform of choice. But aren't all steam games protected by way of you having a steam account that you login to?

  • CloudXIV #15 3 months ago

    I'm a console gamer all the way, but I always enjoyed point & click adventures on pc. Good to see the genre is far from being dead (many indie point & click games and now Double Fine is making one!).

  • 5h1nj1 #16 3 months ago

    quote: "game will be DRM free"..."closed beta through Steam"

    Erm, what? I don't really get this. How is using one of the biggest DRM systems making it DRM free? I'm not sarcastic, I really don't get, what exactly is the message here. Someone explain, please.

  • Gahro #17 3 months ago

    @bad09 At 2:09 in the above video "DRM Free Version: Option to backers on release"

  • BradlayLaw #18 3 months ago

    @5h1nj1 The beta is going to be done through Steam, the finished game will be DRM free. Not hard to understand.

  • 5h1nj1 #19 3 months ago

    @BradlayLaw Really? I find that hard to believe. They would go all the trouble to get it work on Steam during the beta and then just not use it? Hardly.

  • levitate #20 3 months ago

    They better send me that signed poster on time!

  • jonfon #21 3 months ago

    I'm assuming Backers must get some form of non-steam option and for everyone else the only PC version available will be via Steam (and thus have DRM built in)?

    Linux versions make me sad, but only because it means playing in work is suddenly an option.

    Damn you Schafer, are you trying to get me fired?

  • homerbert #22 3 months ago

    Android release confirmed. Happy days. I know Android screen resolutions and various non-standard bits and bobs make it hard to port stuff, so I'm super grateful. I wish we could get some other point and clicks on the device, like Hector, or even the MI remakes. (I know SCUMMVM works, but I found the game controls and designs didn't scale down as well as I'd hoped)

  • InsoFox #23 3 months ago

    @5h1nj1 This really isn't difficult. The beta will be on Steam. The final version will be released on Steam, too, but also there will be a DRM free option (currently stated for that it's an option for backers). You can release it on more than one thing...

  • Subdominator #24 3 months ago

    @InsoFox DRM free just means they won't use a copy protection in addition to Steam. Steam itself is not a copy protection, it's a GUI. You can even start some games by just going to your Steam folder and clicking the game executable, although that doesn't work for a lot of games (for obvious reasons).

  • bad09 #25 3 months ago

    @Gahro

    ah I didn't watch the video, hmmm bit unfair to people who buy when it's out but I guess it encourages money in.