Kill Screen's first ever Two5Six conference took place last weekend in Brooklyn, New York, with CEO of Double Fine Tim Schafer providing the event's keynote speech. During the conference for video game arts and culture, Schafer revealed that Double Fine is looking to reclaim the rights for four of its franchises, including Costume Quest and Stacking.
Nordic Games acquired only the distribution rights to both Costume Quest and Stacking during the THQ bankruptcy and auction process earlier in 2013, but Schafer confirms that those are still valuable commodities.
"We're still trying to get the rights to Costume Quest and Stacking," Schafer told Game Informer. "We can still make more of those games. We still have the IP, but we'd love to have all of the IP and distribution rights in house."
In addition to Costume Quest and Stacking, Double Fine is also interested in regaining the rights to the Brutal Legend IP from Electronic Arts, as well as Iron Brigade, which is held by Microsoft.
Double Fine looks to skip the traditional publishing relationship with its upcoming title Broken Age. The game was announced on Kickstarter in February 2012 and blasted through its $400,000 funding goal to a total of $3.3 million in total pledges in little more than a month.
Broken Age follows a young boy and girl, leading separate, but parallel lives. The boy seeks adventures outside of his home in space, while the girl fights back against her village, the inhabitants of which wish to sacrifice her to an evil monster.
By funding the game through Kickstarter, the folks at Double Fine "get to make the game they want to make, promote it in whatever manner they deem appropriate, and release the finished product on their own terms." Broken Age is set to launch sometime in 2013.
