Broken Age (beta) is out.

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Any of you guys try the BROKEN AGE yet?!

[Juhana]

It's good. Really good. Finally someone figured out how to make an adventure game that doesn't suck. (It's also possible that Schafer knew all along.)

It's not perfect, but if all adventures were this good I wouldn't complain. About anything.

(Also, I think it's the real thing now, not beta anymore.)

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Do the puzzles suck? Are they any good? Do you feel like you are the Puzzle Master, puzzling out puzzles?

[RetroRomper]

The puzzles feel kinda like I'm matching the square whole with the cube, circle with the sphere, etc. Maybe the first act isn't a good indicator, but the puzzles have never led to a moment of frustration nor that kind of pleasant brain tingling Grim Fandango or Maniac Mansion brought to me.

The game completely feels as if it is catering to an audience who want nostalgia and none of the difficulty normally associated with Grim Fandango or Monkey Island.

--Retro

[RealNC]

Uhm, they've spent 1000 billion dollars for THIS? A 4 hour game?

Seriously?

Not that it's bad, but WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?

[RetroRomper]

This is only the first act of the game and only available to people who either backed them on Kickstarter barkers or have pre-ordered the game and have "early access" to it (or know of an appropriate website without any morals).

Not sure what the release schedule is for each individual act, but the full game itself should be available this summer.

--Retro

[RealNC]

Hm, it's out of beta though. It's on Steam as a normal game. Betas and such are in the "Early Access" program, Broken Age isn't in that, it's a full release game:



(Yeah, if you look at my Steam account you won't the game there... so how do I know that it's not bad? Well, I blame my low morals and that I don't intend to dish out 23€ ($31) for a 3-4 hours game...)

[Quoth Wikipedia]

Schafer reanalyzed the state of the project in July 2013 and recognized that at the current rate, they would not be releasing the complete game until 2015. Schafer recognized they would run out of the Kickstarter funds before then and would not yet be receiving money from the sales of the game, either requiring them to drastically cut back on the project or alter their release plans. Schafer opted to adjust the schedule and place the first half of the game in its beta state on Steam's Early Access system to make it available by January 2014, obtaining revenue from sales there to fund the remaining development while gaining additional testing input before releasing a final version. Initial backlash to this announcement led Schafer to affirm that they were not asking for more money to develop the title, and that "we are using our own money to deliver a bigger game than we Kickstarted".[34] In the end, the first half of the game was deemed polished and complete enough to be released in a non-beta nor Early Access fashion on January 28 as "Act I"; the second half to be released as a free update later in the year.

[RealNC]

lol, do these guys read this forum? :-P

They've sent me this just now:

http://s28.postimg.org/v0u359hel/coupon.png