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Greetings, backer! Here you can find a complete list of all development-related updates on Broken Age (announced as Double Fine Adventure), made possible by the support of our ridiculously amazing community! The documentary is being filmed by 2 Player Productions, and the development updates come straight from the team making the game. It's all hosted on our private backer forums. Bookmark this page or subscribe to the RSS feed to stay up to date!
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Documentary Updates
2 Player Productions
2 Player Productions
- Just Take It Seriously
(April 29, 2015)
- Episode 19: Last call
(April 23, 2015)
- The Double Fine Adventure Documentary Goes Public!
(March 4, 2015)
- Episode 18: Constipation and Defcon 4
(January 7, 2015)
- Episode 17: A Deadline for Tim
(October 16, 2014)
- It’s Not Like This Every Day
(October 16, 2014)
- Episode 16: This Time it’s Just for Love
(July 9, 2014)
- Sidequest: “My Seat Only Goes Back so Far”
(July 9, 2014)
- Sidequest: “Maybe We Were Geniuses”
(May 30, 2014)
- Sidequest: “The Weight of the Sound”
(May 30, 2014)
- Episode 15: Evergreen Games
(April 10, 2014)
- Sidequest: “The Purity of Your Intent”
(February 12, 2014)
- Episode 14: I Think This is a Winner
(January 28, 2014)
- Episode 13: Crash Landing a Plane
(December 23, 2013)
- Episode 12: A Whole Different Game Experience
(November 1, 2013)
- Sidequest: “What I Wish I Could Have Done Then…”
(October 30, 2013)
- Episode 11: Ship It
(August 30, 2013)
- Sidequest: “Look, the Clocks…”
(August 26, 2013)
- Episode 10: Part One of Something Great
(July 2, 2013)
- Sidequest: “I Would Have Absolutely Laughed”
(May 17, 2013)
- Episode 9: “Broken Age”
(April 23, 2013)
- The Making of the Teaser Trailer
(April 16, 2013)
- Sidequest: “You Don’t Step in the Same River Twice”
(March 27, 2013)
- Week of Double Fine on GameTrailers
(March 25, 2013)
- Episode 8: “Adventure Games Are Not Dead”
(March 7, 2013)
- Sidequest: “I Think It’s Okay That I’m Still Here”
(February 8, 2013)
- Sidequest: “There Could Possibly Be Some Legal Issues”
(January 15, 2013)
- Episode 7: We’ll Handle It
(December 22, 2012)
- Episode 6: That Bagel Filter Thing
(October 26, 2012)
- Sidequest: “Put Your Lips On That”
(October 5, 2012)
- Episode 5: It’s Gonna Get Hairy
(September 19, 2012)
- Sidequest: “I Got My Dream Job”
(September 7, 2012)
- The PAX Panel Series Highlights Video
(September 6, 2012)
- Making the Episode: Peter Chan’s Island
(September 5, 2012)
- Episode 4: Walking Around in Our Drawings
(August 8, 2012)
- Making the Episode
(August 3, 2012)
- Sidequest: “I Was a Very Pleasant Baby”
(July 12, 2012)
- Episode 3: Codename: Reds
(June 27, 2012)
- Sidequest: It’s All Coming Back to Me
(June 8, 2012)
- Sidequest: “I’m Such a F@#$in’ Genius”
(June 7, 2012)
- Episode 2: A Promise of Infinite Possibility
(May 11, 2012)
- Pre-Episode 2 Video Update
(May 8, 2012)
- Sidequest: My Father Told Me It Would Be Like This
(April 27, 2012)
- Making the Pitch Video
(April 23, 2012)
- 2 Player Productions Equipment Catalog
(April 11, 2012)
- Episode 1: A Perfect Storm for Adventure
(April 5, 2012)
- WE DID IT!!
(March 21, 2012)
Production Updates
- Act 1 Production Statistics
(March 7, 2014)
- Dialog Pipeline (or, how we manage every bit of dialog Tim writes)
(February 12, 2014)
- Update: Elijah Wood as Shay in Broken Age
(December 7, 2013)
- Update: Some more early Broken Age casting news!
(December 5, 2013)
- Update: Tim, Lee, Oliver, and Greg at GDC Next
(November 11, 2013)
- Update: An Early Peek at Some Broken Age News!
(November 1, 2013)
- Update: Broken Age Casting
(September 1, 2013)
- Update: A Sneak Peek at “Double Fine’s 90,000 Friends”
(June 12, 2013)
- Update: A New Double Fine Kickstarter
(May 30, 2013)
- Broken Age First Teaser Trailer
(March 27, 2013)
- Update 5: A Production Update!
(March 8, 2013)
- Status: Pre-Episode 7 Update
(November 21, 2012)
- Update 4: The State of the Game
(November 21, 2012)
- Update 3: PR Update 1: PAX
(August 30, 2012)
- Update 2: What’s a Producer?
(June 1, 2012)
- Update 1: Where does all the $$$$ go?
(April 2, 2012)
Writing Updates
- Update 5: Creating Characters
(July 1, 2013)
- Update 4: Potential Reds Names Incoming!
(March 12, 2013)
- Update 3: Let’s brainstorm locations together!
(May 29, 2012)
- Update 2: Freewriting Technique
(May 23, 2012)
- Update 1: Tim breaks out a new notebook
(March 28, 2012)
Game Club Updates
- Broken Age part 2 (with special guests) (May 2, 2015)
- Sam & Max: Bright Side of the Moon (April 4, 2015)
- DF Game Club: Discworld 2: Missing Presumed…!? (March 14, 2015)
- DF Game Club: Spy Fox 2: Some Assembly Required (February 28, 2015)
- DF Game Club: Grim Fandango Remastered (with special guests!) (January 31, 2015)
- DF Game Club: A Vampyre Story (December 20, 2014)
- DF Game Club: Maniac Mansion (November 29, 2014)
- The Journey Down: Chapter 2 (October 25, 2014)
- Papo & Yo (October 4, 2014)
- Stacking (plus live interview with Lee Petty :D ) (September 13, 2014)
- Stranded (September 10, 2014)
- The Maker’s Eden, Act I (August 16, 2014)
- Toonstruck (July 26, 2014)
- The Raven - Legacy of a Master Thief: Chapter 2 (July 5, 2014)
- The Fall (with John Warner) (June 21, 2014)
- Sam & Max: Abe Lincoln Must Die! (with special guests) (June 7, 2014)
- Kentucky Route Zero, Act III (plus dev chat with Tamas Kemenczy) (May 17, 2014)
- Broken Age, Act 1 (with special guests! :D ) (March 13, 2014)
- Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons (February 6, 2014)
- Lume & Aether (January 29, 2014)
- Fester Mudd: Curse of the Gold (January 24, 2014)
- Costume Quest: Grubbins on Ice (December 16, 2013)
- Gone Home (November 18, 2013)
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (November 1, 2013)
- Costume Quest (October 11, 2013)
- Kentucky Route Zero (August 28, 2013)
- Broken Sword: Shadow of the Templars (June 28, 2013)
- Pajama Sam: No Need To Hide When It’s Dark Outside (June 18, 2013)
- Another World (Out of This World) (June 14, 2013)
- Gravity Bone and Thirty Flights of Loving (May 24, 2013)
- Monkey Island 2 with Ron Gilbert (April 28, 2013)
- Loom (April 22, 2013)
- The Last Express (March 25, 2013)
- Sam & Max: Culture Shock (March 6, 2013)
- The Cave (February 23, 2013)
- Time Gentlemen, Please! (February 1, 2013)
- Sam & Max Hit the Road (October 23, 2012)
- Beneath a Steel Sky (October 5, 2012)
- The Journey Down (September 20, 2012)
- The Secret of Monkey Island (September 4, 2012)
- Machinarium (August 9, 2012)
- Gemini Rue (July 11, 2012)
- Superbrothers: Sword and Sworcery EP (May 29, 2012)
- Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers (May 5, 2012)
- Full Throttle (April 26, 2012)
- Day of the Tentacle (March 26, 2012)
Project Updates
- Project Update 04/23 - Release details!
(April 23, 2015)
- Project Update 23: 12/20/14
(December 19, 2014)
- Project Update 22: 11/26/14
(November 26, 2014)
- Project Update 21: 10/16/14
(October 16, 2014)
- Update 20: 8/3/14
(August 3, 2014)
- Update 19: 1/25/14
(January 26, 2014)
- Update 18: 1/3/14
(January 7, 2014)
- Update 17: 12/4/13
(December 5, 2013)
- Update 16: 11/1/13
(November 1, 2013)
- Update 15: 10/9/13
(October 10, 2013)
- Update 14: 9/13/13
(September 13, 2013)
- Update 13: 8/27/2013
(August 27, 2013)
- Update 12: 8/7/2013
(August 8, 2013)
- Update 11: 7/19/13
(July 19, 2013)
- Update: Broken Age Release Plan
(July 2, 2013)
- Update 10: 7/2/13
(July 2, 2013)
- Update 9: 6/25/13
(June 25, 2013)
- Update 8: 6/7/13
(June 7, 2013)
- Update 7: 5/28/13
(May 28, 2013)
- Update: Help us Help Broken Age
(May 22, 2013)
- Update 6: 5/17/13
(May 17, 2013)
- Update 5: 5/13/13
(May 13, 2013)
- Update 4: 5/6/13
(May 6, 2013)
- Update 3: 4/26/13
(April 26, 2013)
- Update 2: 4/19/13
(April 19, 2013)
- Update 1: 4/12/13
(April 12, 2013)
Art Updates
- Update 13: Ask the Animation Team Anything!
(December 11, 2013)
- Update 12: Character Texture Management
(September 13, 2013)
- Update 11: Character Lighting
(May 7, 2013)
- Update 10: Concept Art Roundup
(November 21, 2012)
- Update 9: Storyboards and Animatics
(October 26, 2012)
- Update 8: Creating Character Textures
(October 17, 2012)
- Update 7: Searching for Sacrifice Girl
(September 6, 2012)
- Update 6: Creating Characters
(August 22, 2012)
- Update 5: World Construction
(July 12, 2012)
- Update 4: Team Growth and Backer Inspiration
(June 26, 2012)
- Update 3: Creating a Visual Style, Part 3
(June 8, 2012)
- Update 2: Creating a Visual Style, Part 2
(May 9, 2012)
- Update 1: Creating a Visual Style, Part 1
(April 24, 2012)
Audio Updates
- Audio Update: Ambient Preview of Act 2!
(December 16, 2014)
- Update 2: The Sounds of Broken Age
(September 18, 2013)
- Update 1: Photos of the first music session
(March 19, 2013)
Programming Updates
- Update 11: Dialog Systems in Double Fine Games
(October 16, 2014)
- Update 10: Broken Age’s Approach to Scalability
(September 28, 2013)
- Interlude 2: Localization
(September 6, 2013)
- Interlude 1: Platforms, Platforms, Platforms
(August 2, 2013)
- Update 9: All Hail the Bug Overlords II
(July 22, 2013)
- Update 8: The Data Pipeline
(April 3, 2013)
- Update 7: Bluebot’s Dilemma
(September 25, 2012)
- Update 6: All Hail the Bug Overlords I
(July 25, 2012)
- Update 5: Audio Implementation
(July 5, 2012)
- Update 4: Animating the Jack
(June 13, 2012)
- Update 3: Beginning Tools Development
(May 16, 2012)
- Update 2: Engine Choice Comparisons
(May 1, 2012)
- Update 1: Early Engine Work
(April 17, 2012)
Assorted Updates
- New non-forum archive of backer content
(May 1, 2013)
- Game Informer preview of Broken Age online
(April 26, 2013)
- Broken Age character wallpapers
(April 9, 2013)
- Broken Age sneaks into a Twitter commercial!
(April 3, 2013)
- Post-Kickstarter backer totals now public!
(January 22, 2013)
- New Reds Print and Tip Jar
(January 15, 2013)
- DFA Wallpapers!
(November 20, 2012)
- Private backer test of the new Double Fine Action Shop!
(November 14, 2012)
- Slacker Backer Price Change
(November 2, 2012)
- Hey Slacker Backers! Are you getting your emails?
(October 29, 2012)
- Hipster Lumberjack Lives!!
(September 11, 2012)
- Rewards Going Out!
(July 3, 2012)
- Help test a new video player
(May 22, 2012)
- DFA posters roll off the presses!
(May 21, 2012)
- Kickstarter Backer Country Stats
(May 15, 2012)
- T-shirt color poll
(April 24, 2012)
- The Applicant - Conclusion
(April 19, 2012)
- Pre-orders
(April 10, 2012)
- Credits Rules
(April 10, 2012)
- Surveys
(April 9, 2012)
- Kickstarter Stats
(March 29, 2012)