Tim Schafer on his Broken Age Kickstarter adventure: 'I'd do it again'

Double Fine has released the second part of its successfully crowdfunded point-and-click epic, but the road to release has not been easy

Tim Schafer, co-creator of some of the most beloved adventure games in history, is sitting in an office in Guildford, home to cobbled high streets, grassy hills and Peter Molyneux. He's talking to me about the barges of England - or "houseboats" in American parlance. Guildford has lots of them. A series of canals criss-cross through the city providing a getaway for those seeking to sell up, buy a floating idyl and escape the rat race, with its work pressures, traffic jams and functioning toilets.

So what's the designer of the Monkey Island series, whose hobbies include getting embroiled in some of the greatest dramas of modern consumerism doing staring at a bunch of hippie ships in The River Wey? Tim is dumbfounded by my cynicism. "It's Fable!" he says.