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Tim Schafer Wants to Make an Adventure Game, the Internet Gives Him $1,000,000

If you spend any decent amount of time talking with videogame developers, it won't be long before you hear the age-old conundrum: There is an incredible surplus of great ideas and an unfortunate shortage of publishers willing to fund them. But for Tim...
Janus Rose
New York, US

If you spend any decent amount of time talking with videogame developers, it won't be long before you hear the age-old conundrum: There is an incredible surplus of great ideas and an unfortunate shortage of publishers willing to fund them. But for Tim Schafer, famed co-creator of the Monkey Island series, all he needed to do was go online and ask nicely for just shy of half a million dollars. Less than 8 hours later, the Internet delivered. Now Schafer is sitting atop more than $1 million in crowdfunded investment, and he's using it to do himself what no big publisher will let him do otherwise: Bring back the Adventure game as it was in the 1990's.