The other super backer was board-game publisher Days of Wonder, and that’s how the conductor from Ticket to Ride got onto Shay’s spaceship.Īnd on that note, were the jokes about Alex possibly being Shay from the future always planned or was that based on speculation from fans after playing the first act? And it worked! He did a great job, and many people list him as their favorite character. I thought if I wrote it as basically Alex himself, speaking in his own voice, he wouldn’t have to act and he could be more than just a cameo. How did Alex Rigopolous from Harmonix get involved with the project? Did you always envision him having such a large role in the story?Īlex was one of our two generous “super backers.” They backed at a level where they got to become a character in the game. So they just walk up to each other and smile, and you can decide for yourself what they’re thinking. Some people see it as a romantic relationship, some platonic, and some people see it as a psychic kinship almost. Is there a reason neither character speaks during the ending scene of Act I?īy the end of the game, I felt that the player would have projected his or her own impression of the relationship between Vella and Shay onto those characters and I didn’t want to contradict that. So we didn’t have to change a thing to make it work. The story had this natural break right in the middle where the whole world gets turned around and the story moves in a different direction, and that’s actually what gave us the idea to split the game into two releases. Was the twist at the end of the first act originally going to take place later in the story? How much was the story changed to accommodate for the division? There was so much debate about splitting the game in half, but the dividing line looks so clean and obvious now. We asked Double Fine's president Tim Schafer some of the lingering questions we had after finishing the game. With Broken Age's lucrative Kickstarter, the fantastic game development documentary series, and the positive reviews for the second half, the saga of the "Double Fine Adventure" is almost over.
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