Yesterday we saw Notch and Tim Schafer wanting to team up and create Pyschonauts 2, a well deserved sequel to a game that was a true cult classic. Today we are seeing the creators of Pyschonauts, Brutal Legend and Costume Quest (among more) asking you, the public, to help create and develop a game.

Tim Schafer, the creator of Double Fine Studios has put across a idea that hasn't been seen before. A small team at Double Fine Studios will use Kickstarter, the world's largest funding platform for creative projects, to create a brand-new, downloadable "Point-and-Click" graphic adventure game for the modern age.

The idea is that the public will donate money to the Kickstarter program, and along with the warm feeling of helping, you will be able to see a game being developed by the public, for the public. The really cool part? Pledge at least $15,000 and you get to have dinner with Tim Schafer and key members of the team. Check out the rest of the premium investor perks:

Pledge $15,000 or more:
Dinner with Tim Schafer and key members of the dev team.

Pledge $20,000 or more:
Dinner and BOWLING with Tim Schafer and key members of the dev team.

Pledge $30,000 or more:
Picture of Ron Gilbert smiling.

Pledge $35,000 or more:
Undoctored picture of Ron Gilbert smiling.

Pledge $50,000 or more:
Become an actual character in the game.

Pledge $150,000 or more:
Tim Schafer (that’s me) will give last four remaining Triangle Boxed Day of the Tentacles, in original shrink-wrap.” (Limit of 1) (Holy crap, what am I thinking? I only have four of those!)

Check out the announcement trailer below, and you can go over to this Kickstarter page for more info and to donate.

Considering it's funded by the community it should be free right?

Go go go! They've already got ~$150000 since the announcement, I'd say they'll easily reach their goal. Every time I check the count its gone up by 10-20K.

Yeah, thats what I was thinking trog... public investors, who get something back from the end result.

Nice, I've just put down $30. Great idea. Go Tim!

When natural selection does this everyone says how stupid it is, yet Tim Schafer basically begs for money with a few extras offered and people are congratulating him on his genius.... you wouldnt even look him in the eye if he was on a street corner.

Tim Schafer on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/#!/TimOfLegend/status/167483999055392768

er don't think link is working ... try this http://twitter.com/timoflegend

@TimOfLegend
Tim Schafer
We just hit $200k...you guys... Oh man. I have to warn you, I always cry at the end of It's a Wonderful Life. :')

$320,000 o_O

And there we have it, in less then a day Double Fine Studios has received $453,495 to publicly back their old school point and click adventure game. Well done!

...I just want a new point and click adventure game.

Tried the Blackwell series or Gemini Rue?

now at 904,000 in under 24 hours!

$955k! Guys, I'll make you a deal. If we hit $980k I'll add RTS elements to the game! And if we hit $1M, I'll take them back out!

Guaranteed 20k extortion there!

Tim looks like he finally figured out how to make a commercially successful game - you don't make it until people have bought it :D

Tim looks like he finally figured out how to make a commercially successful game - you don't make it until people have bought it :D

Let us be real, he's well known for creating legendary point/click games and is offering a new point/click game for $15.

It's a no brainer, I couldn't see it working for many other developers.

and there's the million ...

this'll never work

DOTT was an awesome game :) same with full throttle, ahh the good ole days of point and click adventures :P

1.2 mill now!!!

Well looks like I was happily wrong, this thing is going nuts again! Will it make 3M? Craziness!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure

Go donate now before it closes. Be a part of history!

I was about to post that this is a stupid idea. Why give them money to make a game when you end up paying for it at the end. But then I read the thingy on their website and it's actually quite an awesome idea. I'm not interested in this but I hope it werks out for everyone involved.

lol,

$2,800,000 pledged of $400,000 goal.

So they make their $400,00 budget and walk away with the rest ;D

Your obviously being sarcastic, but I wanted to say this anyway, they use the extra for greater things in the game, like localisation, mac/linux version etc.

I don't think its really possible for them to fail at making an adventure game, given the pedigree

Wow, they made a lot in the last 24 hours, it was at 2.7 million when I checked it yesterday

I'm not too interested in giving what is essentially Interplay more money, they haven't shown particularly good business sense in the past.

And while on the topic of interplay, this comic is relevant