I love the concepts in this project; in particular, I've been waiting nearly 20 years for sci-fi satire this good in playable form. Recent reboots of Hitchhikers Guide and other sci-fi comedy have been largely disappointing. Here comes a project with fresh ideas populated within a classic milieu; the adventure game. The fan base for this genre is surprisingly broad, but distributed, and it's terribly frustrating to continually (nearly each day in the campaign) find interested parties who were completely unaware of even the most basic of campaign details (i.e., the game creators recent reunion, as reported, finally, by Gamasutra).

This recently came to a head when one of our backers discovered a Google+ hangout in progress with a group of classic adventure game fans were replaying classic Space Quest , blissfully unaware that simultaneously, the very creators of the franchise were running a public live steam of commentary on the very same games!! It was the first head-through-keyboard moment of frustration I've had in years...

If the project does well, they'll have proven to the rights-holders (Activision) that they are, in fact, the right guys for the job, and that they were the creative driving force, not the specific IP itself. That gives them leverage to license it and work together to create a proper sequel (can't imagine it being called SQ7, but that would be hilarous!!).

Of course, the price of the IP would go up, but the alternative is that it goes nowhere and languishes until a contract house is hired to turn it into some cartoony 3D platformer for middle-schoolers... oh, wait... that DID happen. Well, it could happen again.

That's my understanding as well. My methodology might go something like; buy the GOG license, and torrent the floppy version to install in DOSbox.

SQ1 can be played for free at http://sarien.net/spacequest

And lastly... in the above methodology, one could, perhaps, "pay" that license to the Kickstarter project, and select a reward tier below one's pledge (say, choose the $30 reward tier, pledge $50, then *not* have $20 to GOG, but to the Two Guys instead), and then go torrent the floppy versions :-D

Yeah, I hope others feel like you and keep this submission lifted up!

The old floppy versions play really well in ScummVM under Linux, but that's not nearly as cool or fun as an entirely new adventure with gobsmackingly awesome professional voice acting, running natively on Linux.

Hey, it was by you! Note, you're linked in the main article above (the URL for "fan video"). :-)

Yeah, having Gary signed on is more awesome than I was ever expecting!