"Broken Age Act 2," the second half of Double Fine's Kickstarted adventure game, was anticipated to launch by the end of this year. It will instead release "early next year," the game's producer announced on Broken Age's official forums and on reddit.
"The goal now is to get all the finale work done so we can hit Alpha on all of Act 2 by the end of the year," wrote Producer Greg Rice. "That means, as you may have guessed based on recent updates and documentary episodes, the Act 2 ship that will deliver the complete adventure is now looking like it will be early next year.
"The game is looking really good and the team is working super-fast, but we just gotta give the game the time it needs to really deliver on everything we're hoping it will be," he added.
Playtests of "Broken Age Act 2" are coming in at eight to 12 hours, Rice also wrote, which would be a good deal longer than Act 1, which launched in January.
In October, creator and Double Fine founder Tim Schafer said he had completed the writing of the second act, which would clear the way for voice acting and other work to complete the title.
"Broken Age," was just an unnamed twinkle in Double Fine's collective eyes when it raised $3.3 million (and was only the second Kickstarter project to raise more than $1 million) in February of 2012. The game was originally promised for an October 2012 delivery, but it was postponed to September 2013 and then, in July 2013, Schafer made the executive decision to break the game into two acts in order to get something published by January of this year.
"Broken Age Act 2" will make the "Broken Age" saga whole, and backers and buyers of Act 1 will get Act 2 for free.
