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Tim Schafer, Tim Schafer!

Broken Age Season Pass, granting you access to the both episodes of the Double Fine's big-budget adventure game, that was made famous by Kickstarter and made Kickstarter famous, is now available for Windows and Mac OS X, 33% off on GOG.com. That's only $16.74 for the next 48 hours!

The first graphic adventure by Tim Schafer in sixteen years, [url=http://www.gog.com/game/broken_age]Broken Age began two years ago in a historic, record-breaking Kickstarter campaign. Now it's here in all its beautiful, 2D, hand-painted glory, with an original orchestral soundtrack and an all-star vocal cast. Broken Age is a timeless coming-of-age story of barfing trees and talking spoons. Vella Tartine and Shay Volta are two teenagers in strangely similar situations, but radically different worlds. The player can freely switch between their stories, helping them take control of their own lives, and dealing with the unexpected adventures that follow.

Your purchase of Broken Age Season Pass gives you instant access to the game's (already released) first act, and will allow you to play its (already funded) second act, as soon as it's ready (later this year). Until Saturday, April 5, at 9:59AM GMT you can get the season pass 33% off, that is for only $16.74.
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Strijkbout: The most important thing I'd like to know right now, does this game have any of the Tim Schafer Humour™?

And season passes, really? Why?
It's pretty much just so you can get the whole game in one purchase, just the second half is like a pre-order it's a short season of 2 parts

You don't want to buy just half a game do you?
Post edited April 03, 2014 by deonast
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Strijkbout: The most important thing I'd like to know right now, does this game have any of the Tim Schafer Humour™?

And season passes, really? Why?
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deonast: It's pretty much just so you can get the whole game in one purchase, just the second half is like a pre-order it's a short season of 2 parts

You don't want to buy just half a game do you?
But then why call it a "season pass", this implies that it means you can only play it in springtime or whatever, it's such a misleading name.
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deonast: It's pretty much just so you can get the whole game in one purchase, just the second half is like a pre-order it's a short season of 2 parts

You don't want to buy just half a game do you?
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Strijkbout: But then why call it a "season pass", this implies that it means you can only play it in springtime or whatever, it's such a misleading name.
Seems to be common to GOG and steam in calling this a season pass, any time you buy current content + future content they just call it a season pass, maybe it is marketing lingo.

--- Edit -- actually looks like I'm wrong steam are calling it just broken age and in the description saying this is act 1 and act 2 comes later.
Post edited April 03, 2014 by deonast
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htown1980: Dammit. I should have thought that would happen. I'll go ask...

Done: Will post something when if I hear back.
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jimbob0i0: Huh I just posted there though ... did we post at the same time?

I put a general notification of the gog release in the general discussion area with a quiet plea for keys and a more directed topic in the backers only discussion area with more detail ...
I just sent a polite yet amusing pm :)
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htown1980: Dammit. I should have thought that would happen. I'll go ask...

Done: Will post something when if I hear back.
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HoneydewHuey: Thanks, htown. By the way, is this your band from back-in-the-day?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrBnEaQd4ZY
Oh my goodness. This is amazing. I have been called Htown for over 20 years and have never heard of these guys. I wonder if they are the reason I couldn't get the email address htown@hotmail.com back in the 90s.
Post edited April 03, 2014 by htown1980
Nice, just when I'm romping through Brutal Legend.
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Strijkbout: But then why call it a "season pass", this implies that it means you can only play it in springtime or whatever, it's such a misleading name.
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deonast: Seems to be common to GOG and steam in calling this a season pass, any time you buy current content + future content they just call it a season pass, maybe it is marketing lingo.

--- Edit -- actually looks like I'm wrong steam are calling it just broken age and in the description saying this is act 1 and act 2 comes later.
This is nothing new guys, and neither Steam or GoG were the first to use the term.

TV shows work in "seasons." You get however many episodes and that makes up the first season, then if the show is successful it get's a second season etc. The term season pass started when some indie developers decided to release their titles episodically, one part at a time, like for example with Telltales The Walking Dead. They released it in parts, called them episodes, and said that all the episodes together make up a season. From there pre-purchasing the entire season became known as buying a season pass. Now it's just standard terminology.
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deonast: Seems to be common to GOG and steam in calling this a season pass, any time you buy current content + future content they just call it a season pass, maybe it is marketing lingo.

--- Edit -- actually looks like I'm wrong steam are calling it just broken age and in the description saying this is act 1 and act 2 comes later.
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EckoShy: This is nothing new guys, and neither Steam or GoG were the first to use the term.

TV shows work in "seasons." You get however many episodes and that makes up the first season, then if the show is successful it get's a second season etc. The term season pass started when some indie developers decided to release their titles episodically, one part at a time, like for example with Telltales The Walking Dead. They released it in parts, called them episodes, and said that all the episodes together make up a season. From there pre-purchasing the entire season became known as buying a season pass. Now it's just standard terminology.
Thanks for the explanation. I was really confused about all this thing of 'season pass'. It seemed to me that I only could play the game for some months and then goodbye. So basically it's a new term for preordering a series of short games.
glad to see this hit GOG, I wasn't a backer but will be jumping on the purchasing bandwagon...
It was ... pretty good, I guess? Mildly amusing jokes, with mildly amusing puzzles, telling a mildly amusing story. As the Second Coming of Tim Schafer it's pretty unexceptional, but maybe that was a standard no game could live up to.
Another game I would gladly have bought on GOG instead of Steam had I any idea that it would be coming to GOG. However, I already have this on Steam and I don't yet have the money to buy a second copy. (
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Strijkbout: But then why call it a "season pass", this implies that it means you can only play it in springtime or whatever, it's such a misleading name.
I agree that it's somehow misleading. It makes sense for the Telltale games because they really treat the games of a franchise as season - like Sam and Max Season 1,2,3 - and the respective games as episodes of that season, like a TV show.
However, Broken Age (as well as Broken Sword 5) is just one game split in two parts - there won't be a Broken Age Season 2. GOG should rather call it "Pass for Both Episodes" or "Full Game Pass" or something like that.
Post edited April 03, 2014 by FrasierWCrane
Nice, I'll wait a heavy sale to get this here. :P
Pass, thanks. 'This one really hard puzzle that you won't get but you'll look it up online and not tell anybody.'

Who writes this stuff...
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PMIK: Great "Lucasasrts" style adventure game. The cliffhanger ending is a killer though! Can't wait for Act 2!
Would you be so kind and elaborate on "Lucasarts" style please?
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Hillsy_: Pass, thanks. 'This one really hard puzzle that you won't get but you'll look it up online and not tell anybody.'

Who writes this stuff...
Someone with a surveillance camera in my living room?

(Or maybe just someone with a sense of humor and a basic understanding of how many people play adventure games. But I'm still sweeping my living room for bugs!)