Double Fine? More like double awesome

Sorry is this comes off sounding like a sales pitch, but I just love this game and want to see this succeed.

For the past 24 hours I have been geeking out. Double Fine, producer of fine games such as Griim Fandango, The Adventures of Monkey Island, and my personal favorite, Psychonauts, has been very busy.

For those who don't know what Psyconauts is, it is a platforming adventure game where you play a kid known as "Raz" who run away from the circus to join a summercamp for psychics. In the game you jump into peoples minds, nagivgating obstacles and fighting peoples inner demons. The game is thuroughly enjoyable, and the fun characters and enviroments alone are enough to make up for the few gameplay issues (platforms can be hell some times). Why are you still reading this? It's $10 on steam, go get it.

Unfortunatly the game suffered from obscurity and though a sequel was planned, no company would take on funding the project. Tim, the creator, gave up on trying to find funding for it and set his sights on smaller projects, one being a point and click adventure game.

Again he was refused funding. "No one wants to play point and click adventure games" They told him. So what did Tim do? He went to kickstarter. and do you know what people said?

Yes, they -do- want point and click adventure games. They said this by shattering kickstarter records by not only raising the most ammount of money on Kickstarter ever, but achieving it in under 24 hours. Over ONE MILLION DOLLARS in 24 hours.

and there's even more good news ontop of that! It turns out that Notch, the creator of minecraft, is a fan of phsychonauts and is currently in talks to fund Psychonauts 2.