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What is Amnesia Fortnight?

Amnesia Fortnight is the name for Double Fine’s annual prototyping period. They take two weeks off from whatever they’re working on, split the company into small teams, and each team gets two weeks to make a game. They do this to test out new ideas, and to test out new project leaders who feel ready to have a project of their own. Many of the games Double Fine has released in the last few years have come from the Amnesia Fortnight process. As Tim Schafer says, “it’s really a great morale boost for the team, and a highly effective way to develop new game ideas.”

Double Fine wants you to be a part of Amnesia Fortnight! You can vote for the ideas that get made into prototypes, which will be live streamed during the development process. In addition, 2 Player Productions will be filming the process and posting videos daily. That means you get to see all these games come together from scratch in front of your eyes!

Contributing will also get you two awesome prototypes from previous Amnesia Fortnights, available for Windows (DRM-free and on Steam). Both are an amazing glimpse into Double Fine’s creativity and give a sneak peek as to what to expect from this year’s game jam.

When the Fortnight is done, you can download the actual prototypes and play them yourselves. Contribute now, pay what you want, and decide how much money goes to charity. Then you can decide who wins the award for best prototype of Amnesia Fortnight.

So watch all the videos, read the materials, talk about the games on Double Fine’s forums, and make your selections. Buy the bundle, play the prototypes, let Double Fine know what you think. Who knows? Maybe the greatest game Double Fine has ever done will come out of this process, and you will have been part of it!

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Tim: "If you want a peek at my box I want a peek at your's first"

1 decade ago
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Only if you don't tell.

1 decade ago
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Space base sounds cool.

1 decade ago
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Really cool, count me in.

1 decade ago
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I'm not doing this again. Where you're pretty much paying for 2 week developed game and then gets abandoned.

1 decade ago
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It's not abandoned, its just no longer worked on by official devs. There are amatuer devs who've extended the games. I don't play them anymore, so I don't remember where to send you to to find out.

1 decade ago
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So it's like the Mojang bundle from a while back?

1 decade ago
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Pretty much, but with more time (2 weeks instead of 1 weekend) and freakin' Tim Schafer =)

I was rather disappointed at the outcome of Mojang, but I'm looking forward to this.

1 decade ago
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it's not exactly the same. in mojang bundle the result software was mostly multiplatform as always in hib; here it looks like it is a windows only effort, which is a -9999 for me.

1 decade ago
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If I read that right, we get Costume Quest on Steam too? (It's marked Prototype, but it mentioned finished Prototypes get Steam keys) Worth it just for that if nothing else!

1 decade ago
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It's a prototype, not the steam store version :)

edit: Here

1 decade ago
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Pity, thanks for the clarity. Will still contribute when I get home

1 decade ago
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i guess that's a snapshot from your steam library. what i don't understand is how they got some prototypes into steam; i thought the process of accepting games was not a joke, i.e. greenlight. maybe the prototype has a treatment similar to a demo...

1 decade ago
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It sounded to me like if they actually finish the games (similar to how Costume Quest from 2009 became a game), we'd get the Steam key for that with the bundle too. I could be wrong, though.

1 decade ago
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Interestin, but double bundle? Seems risky to me...

1 decade ago
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I had to get this just because it's a Humble Bundle ;)

I mustn't let my collection of all of them leave even one out!

1 decade ago
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I love both Double Fine and the Humble Bundle, but something about this seems a little... I dunno, sketchy maybe? Unless I'm misunderstanding something, you don't get the finished games, just the prototypes they build over the next couple weeks. So this is basically an opportunity to pay them for the privilege of doing their market research for them, and in exchange we get back some very rough demos?

I mean, there's a charity element to it which is cool and all, but I don't feel the need to contribute to Double Fine in all this.

1 decade ago
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yes

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but I don't feel the need to contribute to Double Fine in all this.

Understandable, but fortunately, there is an easy solution: Slide the 'Double Fine' slider all the way to the left and just give all of your contribution to charity and/or Humble.

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My top five votes, in a rather particular order:
Milgrim, Bragging and Fighting, Hack and Slash, Spacebase DF-9, and Black Lake

There's a few others that are pretty cool, but I just don't think I'd keep playing them for long.

1 decade ago
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When I first read this, I had pretty much zero interest in it. Then I watched the video. I'm in now :)

1 decade ago
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They are just better marketing and documenting the process they do yearly. If those games turn out to be good there will likely be full versions later. Which is cool as I like some of those ideas...

1 decade ago
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Voted for Autonomous, Milgrim and Spacebase DF-9 in this order. The idea behind some of those games is really good.

1 decade ago
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Are we twins separated at the birth? XD

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Well, considering the amount of votes for each of thsoe 3, I'm guessing we have many,many other brothers and sisters ou there :p

1 decade ago
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I'm kinda sad for I think silent but deadly would be sweet. . . yet it is like 45% not gonna get up-voted.

1 decade ago
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I've voted for The White Birch, my personal favourite, and for Autonomous, which looks interesting :)

1 decade ago
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Silent But Deadly is obviously the best one! Why is it so low, wtf is wrong with you people?

1 decade ago
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Have you played the rough prototype?

1 decade ago
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No. ....Now yes. Wasn't that bad, actually. I wasn't serious about SBD, but the concept is solid!

1 decade ago
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CritterVerse or nothing some people are just crazy did no one watch that video?

1 decade ago
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I would support this if it included an actual game :/

I have such a backlog, I just can't see myself ever playing rough prototypes of games. Maybe if they gave the full Costume Quest or promised to give the full version of whatever game they eventually make I would be convinced.

1 decade ago
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How much will I have to contribute in order to have the Costume Quest prototype?

1 decade ago
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1 USD for the steam key
0.01 USD for DRM-free
but honestly, it sucks...

1 decade ago
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Seriously though, Echelon has shockingly few votes. I expected that game to be no lower than 3rd place.

1 decade ago
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The Top 4 (in a just world)

  1. Echelon
  2. Autonomous + Redbot's Reboot = GOTY
  3. Spacebase DF-9
  4. Hack 'n' Slash
1 decade ago
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No Linux support :(

1 decade ago
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they give steam keys for what exactly?

1 decade ago
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i bought it. it included one steam key, which currently gets you "costume quest prototype" and "happy song prototype" they aren't listed in the steam store and don't show in my steam community all games list, but i do have them in the steam client. their icon is just the double fine logo. you don't get the finished games that these prototypes turned into.

1 decade ago
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hm ok thanks, that part was really not shown

1 decade ago
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agreed! i thought maybe there was a chance i'd get the completed version of costume quest, but wasn't really expecting it either. i'm not sure if the chosen 4 prototypes will be added to the steam key (or if they'll give us another key) or if those will only be available drm-free.

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They will give the keys for the prototypes. It says so on the page.

1 decade ago
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new prototype --- Brazen Prototype is added to the bundle

everyone who has bought the bundle before can get it for free (including steam key) without beating the average

1 decade ago
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some days ago i got 4 keys for Brazen prototype in my bundle page, i understand the extra ones are meant to be shared with friends.

1 decade ago
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Yeah for 4 players coop...

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Closed 1 decade ago by BernardoOne.