Broken Sword: The Serpent's Curse announced on Kickstarter

Played every broken sword game. My money's booked :D

Hopefully the kickstarter keeps funding games long term, I'm not personally interested in this title, but I'm hoping if it keeps going someone will eventually try to create an original AAA title through crowd funding and it'd be interesting to see if someone could get enough people interested and pull it off without a publisher ruining everything.

As for the $500k of their own money having gone into development it's probably just the money they planned to use to put together enough of a game to get publishers interested, chances are kickstarter is the last resort after several publishers turned it down (as we all know publishers hate anything that isn't a 1st or 3rd person shooter.)

best of luck to them.

I've pledged 15$

Guys, don't just talk, donate.

Slapping down $100 for this, Broken Sword back to its roots, excellent! :D

Can't wait for this! I've pledged my $250! :D

they put in $500,000 but still asking for $400,000 on kickstater??? -.-

Nice to see its going back to 2D. George Stobbart rules :)

Great news. I love the Broken Sword franchise.

Man I love it if kickstarters were the norm in funding video games. Stick it to those pathetic publishing companies.

It's becoming a golden era for adventure gaming. Broken Sword is one of those series that deserves to be preserved! It's right up there with Tex Murphy, the Sierra games and the LucasArts games. And the sprite style was definitely preferable to any sort of 3D.

I am curious how long will this campaign will eventually reach $400,000. Some of the Kickstarter campaigns have surprised me on how quickly they were able to get funded.

While I'm waiting for it to come to PSN/XBLA, I'll be playing it on my phone, lol.

That is great to hear.

As an afterthought i would also love to see Lure of the Temptress and Beneath a Steel Sky given this treatment - Though admittedly they are probably left to the brilliant one off stories.

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

Brilliant news even better that its dropping the '3D'

it is ok for me to say all these guys that have such a high production studios are indie? like a lot of these guys worked for EA, Activition, Ubisoft, calls them selfs indie but then they have such high production studios asking for over $100,000 in money to fund there projects and are not really indie? what i call a indie team is very small teams that are making games from there bedroom and have a team that is making a game for free up to the point they release the game and hope the game sales to get paid, and only use kickstarter to only fund the cost of making the game, like paying for legal stuff, buying the license to software so they can release the game for commercial use, etc. All while they go to there job or school and work on making the game on there spare time. all set and done my team will only need less then 15K and thats just to buy the Autodesk programs which is $6000+ , $100to license UDK to get the game released, buy a few other software we will need that goes for $300-$800, get legal stuff done for tax reasons. in other words, Sorry if i sound mean but im starting to get pissed with these people that are part of the gaming industry for several years that are making $40,000-$60,000 or even more a year doing what they do asking for money on kickstarter and ruin it for the real indie teams that have NO WAY to get funded because AAA guys are starting to come in and use Kickstater them self's.

That game was horrible on PSone

Awesome, and I love that they're going back to 2D again! Looking forward to this

Brilliant to hear there is a new Broken Sword coming! I won't be backing in on Kickstarter because I don't agree with paying for the 'rewards', but will buy it day 1 for sure.

Good times keep coming recently!

Whoop! Better be a decent one...