Broken Age

Broken Age

BROKEN AGE ESD. A family friendly, hand-animated, puzzle-filled adventure game with an all-star cast, including Elijah Wood, Jack Black and Masasa Moyo. 

Broken Age is a point-and-click adventure game released by Double Fine Productions. The project was initially announced on February 8, 2012, through the website Kickstarter.com. Tim Schafer and Double Fine Productions desired to create an old-school point-and-click adventure game, but due to lack of publisher interest in the genre, they chose to pursue funding through crowdsourcing.

The Kickstarter campaign proved to be an enormous success, raised roughly ten times the project funding goal. As part of the Kickstarter project pitch, the development of the project was documented by 2 Player Productions, who created a serialized video series chronicling the process. Additionally, project backers were given access to a private community forum to offer their input on the game's development.

Originally planned for a release on PC through Steam, greater-than-expected funding caused Double Fine to totally rethink their plans for the game, including expanding the scope of the game and adding releases on Mac, iOS, and Android devices. Additionally added were English-language voice acting and localized text in French, Italian, German, and Spanish.

The initial scope of the project predicted a release date in October of 2012, but due to the larger budget, more time is being taken to develop the game. During Episode 10 of the 2 Player Productions documentary, it was revealed that the game would actually be split into two parts in order to resolve certain funding issues that arose once the requirements of the full game's scope became evident.

Act 1 was released to backers on January 14, 2014 and was released to the general public on January 28, 2014. Act 2 was released on April 28, 2015.

System Requirements

PC

Minimum

• OS: Windows XP
• Processor: 1.7 GHz Dual Core
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia 260GTX, ATI Radeon 4870 HD, Intel HD 3000
• DirectX: Version 10
• Hard Drive: 1500 MB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card

Recommended

• OS: Windows 7
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.2 GHz / AMD Athlon 64 2.2Ghz
• Memory: 3 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia 460, AMD HD 6850
• DirectX: Version 11
• Hard Drive: 1500 MB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card

Mac

Minimum

• OS: Snow Leopard 10.6.8 or later
• Processor: Intel Core Duo
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Graphics: ATI HD 2600, Nvidia 9600GT, Intel HD3000
• Hard Drive: 1500 MB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card

Recommended

• OS: Lion 10.7.X
• Processor: Intel Core i series processor
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
• Graphics: ATI HD 4670, Nvidia 285
• Hard Drive: 1500 MB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card

Linux

Minimum

• OS: Ubuntu 12.0 LTS. Fully updated
• Processor: 1.7 GHz Dual Core
• Memory: 2 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia 260GTX, Radeon HD 2000, Intel HD 4000
• Hard Drive: 1500 MB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card

Recommended

• OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo at 2.2 GHz / AMD Athlon 64 2.2Ghz
• Memory: 3 GB RAM
• Graphics: Nvidia 460, AMD HD 6850
• Hard Drive: 1500 MB available space
• Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card