Kritiken (1)
This is surprisingly the better, more beneficial and timeless part of the community-funded project, which in many ways revolutionized gaming history. In the spring of 2012, Tim Schafer (author of most classic adventure games of LucasArt) launched the community funding on Kickstarter promising “I'll make an old-fashioned adventure game, I just do not know what". He collected a lot of money, showed the way to others, and thus started the subsequent nostalgic tsunami of the return of experienced creators and the good old gaming school along with them, which no longer were wanted by big studios. And he changed the whole industry to some extent. And this twenty-episode documentary series, depicts the entire long-term production journey, even before the funding was launched. It is an interesting show, as it shows in depth the complete creative process in all areas, including all compromises and sofia's business choices. The best thing about it, however, is that Schafer's entire project was built on shaky ground from the beginning, and the higher it got the bigger was the fall, no specific plan, financial resources were terribly overestimated, all the finances were spent long before completion, controversial communication about many unpopular decisions, unfulfilled promises, disproportionately long development and questionable quality of the final product. This show captures all this and much more in an objective way, uncompromisingly and in the raw, so it is a unique insight that is very interesting (especially if you are starting a project), regardless of whether you are into playing video games or not (especially old school point and click adventure games).
()