If you’re one of the many who backed Double Fine to the tune of $3.3 million when they asked for money to make a new adventure game, rejoice! It’s finally been named and revealed: Broken Age is the title, and a pretty, but sparse website has been launched.

“Broken Age is a point-and-click adventure telling the stories of a young boy and girl leading parallel lives,” reveals the site. “The girl has been chosen by her village to be sacrificed to a terrible monster–but she decides to fight back. Meanwhile, a boy on a spaceship is living a solitary life under the care of a motherly computer, but he wants to break free to lead adventures and do good in the world. Adventures ensue.”

If this sounds like your sort of thing you can still get in on the ground floor by pre-ordering on the site. $15 gets you the game for Windows, Mac and Linux, and $30 gets you that and a bunch of goodies.

Source: Broken Age

If you contributed to Double Fine’s Amnesia Fortnight initiative, you probably own all the resulting prototypes already. But if you missed out, or you’re looking for something to fill a distressing gap in your game shelf, there are a couple of options available on the Double Fine store.

You could just pick up a US$10 package containing the five prototypes, but if you like boxed sets, there’s a two-disc physical release available for US$30 plus shipping. Bump your purchase up to $45 to score a slip cover for one game autographed by its project lead, or go all out at $75 for all five autographs.

Whichever package you pick up, you’ll also get downloadable copies of Autonomous, Black Lake, Hack ‘n’ Slash, Spacebase DF-9 and The White Birch, as well as a soundtrack, the 2 Player Productions documentary on Amnesia Fortnight and prototype versions of Brazen, Costume Quest and Happy Song. More information is available direct from Double Fine.

Source: Joystiq

Once a year, Double Fine shuts down for two weeks and enters “Amnesia Fortnight”, where they jam together on whatever games they’d like to make, knocking together concepts and prototypes as quickly as possible. Some of the company’s greatest successes including games like Stacking and Costume Quest have come from these jams — but this year, things were different. If you donated to the Humble Bundle, you could vote on the game’s they would make, and get to play the prototypes. James Pinnell has done just that, and returns filled with excitement at the possibilities.

For two weeks a year, Double Fine Games puts down whatever they’re working on, splits into multiple smaller teams, and works to quickly prototype up a variety of new, random projects.

Games like Costume Quest, Stacking and Middle Manager of Justice have all been spawned from these hectic two week periods, but now, Double Fine are offering you the chance to vote on what they create — and then get the finished product for yourself.

Head on over to the Humble Bundle Amnesia Fortnight Page where, by donating $1 or more to charity, you can get a vote to help choose which of the prototypes will make it. Double Fine will develop the top four ideas into game prototypes once the countdown ends in six days time.

Leading the pack at the moment are Spacebase DF-9 (“Build a space base where aliens can live and work, and watch interesting stories emerge from their simulated lives”), Hack n’ Slash (“A young elf uses her hacking skills to cheat her way through a classic action adventure”), The White Birch (“An ambient platform game in the style of Ico or Journey in which a young girl climbs a tower to escape a dark, hazardous forest”) and Autonomous (“Lost in a new-wave futuristic junk yard world, you must build self-directed automatons from found primitives to both explore and survive the hazardous environment”).

Still don’t understand? Here’s a video of Tim Schafer. It may or may not explain everything, but that’s part of his charm.

Source: Double Fine Humble Bundle