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On the very first day of this year I discovered two games in development which sound extremely exciting. Want to share them with you and play as soon as they come out. Unfortunately I am not in a position to back any projects on Kickstarter so cannot get early access which actually sucks. Anyway, these sweet looking games are right here, right now.

Broken Age is coming from Double Fine Productions. Double Fine is the game studio created by Tim Schafer. Tim Schafer is the man behind titles as 'Day of the Tentacle', 'Full Throttle' and 'Grim Fandango'. If you do not know these titles you are not a real adventurer I am afraid and you should definitely look them up first before starting a new adventure. Tim Schafer put up a Kickstarter project on February 2012 with the promise of creating a real-deal adventure game. The genre was dying, no new titles which worth trying out were coming out and he felt the need of doing something about it (I believe). The project reached a huge amount with $3,336,371. Broken Age is the game Schafer promised and it is coming this month as it is announced.

Broken Age looks like a very unique kind of adventure game with its graphics. You can see it in the first look. It is a point and click style of adventure with two stories. Both of them are about main character trying to break her/his chains. One is a boy living on a spaceship under the control of a computer and wants to be free. The other one is a girl chosen by her village to be sacrificed to a monster and she wants to fight back and live. The story itself might also sound exciting but when you will see the graphics and some more names behind the project, I am sure you will want to play it and get into its world immediately.

Schafer claims that adventure games lost their art values and what he tries to do is bring it back. This game looks like a child of this idea with its unique and beautifully visualised graphics. The awesomeness is not limited with graphics. Behind the voices of characters there are names like Elijah Wood and Wil Wheaton. Ron Gilbert who is the name behind titles as 'Maniac Mansion', 'The Secret of Monkey Island' and 'Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge' is also in the team. So imagine how big is this new game. I am really excited about it and inviting you to watch this beautiful teaser trailer of the game. For more info you can visit the official website of the game here.

This second title is coming from Two Guys who made Space Quest series in 80s and 90s, Mark Crowe and Scott Murphy. The great thing about Space Quest was that it was one of the first. It eventually became a legend for the genre after selling 100,000 at the first release. However after the last title 'Space Quest 6' in 1995, the series were cut. Today, the same guys want to awaken the legend and they already started a Kickstarter project which ended up collecting over $500,000 by 13th of June, 2012.

SpaceVenture is not exactly continuation of Space Quest but a successor that takes many elements from it. The hero in the game is Ace Hardway who is a space janitor walking around with his dog/toolbox Rooter so do not expect anything serious from this game. It will be a comedy with many pop culture references and jokes. It is going to be another point and click adventure with dragging feature as can be seen in the demo playthrough below. Well, there is not a release date yet as far as I know but should not be so long since the demo is out already. For more information and future news about the game, visit official website of Two Guys from Andromeda here.