Schafer, Gilbert and the Double Fine Adventure!

It was bound to happen you know. Adventures, you see, can't help but happen when Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer work within 100 meters of each other and apparently that's exactly what has recently been going on over at Double Fine. Well, that and discussions with Notch on Psychonauts 2, as well as attempts to port the (allegedly) excellent Stacking to the PC, but anything pointable-and-clickable is vastly more important than anything else.

Especially as a small, elite team of Double Fine comrades -with the help of Ron Gilbert and under the guidance of Tim Schafer- will actually go on and create a traditionally proper point-and-click adventure game. You know, of the sort that has been dying those past 15 years. No, really. There's a pretty excellent Kickstarter campaign that has been going on for the past few hours and rather impressively showcasing the fact that adventures are very much alive. Almost $300,000 have been raised in much less than half a day; is the FPS dead yet?

Now that you've hopefully watched the trailer, I could go on and mention just how important the fact that Double Fine will be doing everything the indie way is, or maybe highlight the equally intriguing fact that the process of creating the game will be both (relatively) open and documented (as in a documentary), but that would simply delay you in your task of supporting the creation of the Double Fine Adventure. There's a ton of lovely and even extravagant goodies to be grabbed.

[UPDATE]: Goal reached and it's only been a couple hours... Three cheers for dead genres!

Related @ Gnome's Lair:

• The Guide to Classic Graphic Adventures
• Taste the AGS Bake Sale! 
• The Dream Machine interview
• Remembering Willy Beamish