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* CrapSaccharineWorld: Sugar Bunting, Vella's hometown, looks beautifully pastoral and has an economy based entirely around baking. It also sacrifices girls to a hideous monster every 14 years. Shay's story, meanwhile, involves him trying to break out of his "perfect" world to have some real adventures, evoking this idea.


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* EvilMentor: [[spoiler:Merrick to Shay.]] Though whether he's truly evil or simply has his own agenda is not yet clear.


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* HermitGuru: Harm'ny Lightbeard certainly acts like one, complete with meditating and dispensing {{IceCreamKoan}}s, but he's really more of a SnakeOilSalesman.
* JetPack: Shay improvises one out of [[spoiler:a whipped cream sprayer]]


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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Both protagonists take actions that seem like good ideas at the time, which come back to haunt them later.


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* SugarBowl: Shay's spaceship is one, much to his annoyance.
* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Curtis the woodworker has developed a phobia of trees, which makes getting raw materials rather difficult.
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* ScheduleSlip: Slated to come out 6 months after the initially announced release.

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* ScheduleSlip: Slated to come out 6 15 months after the initially announced release.
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* BookEnds: Act 1 ends with Shay and Vella lying down in the same position as on the first screen, [[spoiler:with Vella stuck inside the crashed Mog Chothra, and Shay stranded in [[PortTown Shellmound.]]]]
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* [[spoiler: TwistEnding: The end of Act 1 has a few.]]
** [[spoiler: EarthAllAlong: Shay's ship merely simulates space and actually lives in the ocean of Vella's world.]]
** [[spoiler: RoboticReveal: Mog Chothra is Shay's ship.]]
** [[spoiler: TomatoInTheMirror: Shay is Mog Chothra and has been "rescuing" sacrificial maidens.]]
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The boy, who is named Shay, lives alone in outer space on an "incubator vessel" that carried him to safety when his world was dying. His entire life so far has been spend under the watchful eye of the ship's maternal AI, who has coddled, nourished, and entertained him through the years, shielding him from potential dangers that lurk beyond the pod bay doors. However; Shay is starting to become suspicious of his extremely fussy adoptive parent's true motives, and he has a growing longing to see the outside world.

The girl, Vella, has just been selected for a "great honor"; her participation in her village's highly esteemed festival for the lake monster "Mog Chothra", as one of the maidens that will potentially be devoured by the monster in exchange for the monster leaving the town in peace for another 14 years. Faced with this dire situation, Vella starts raising a question: "What if we actually tried to fight the monster?"

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The boy, who is named Shay, Shay Volta, lives alone in outer space on an "incubator vessel" that carried him to safety when his world was dying. His entire life so far has been spend under the watchful eye of the ship's maternal AI, who has coddled, nourished, and entertained him through the years, shielding him from potential dangers that lurk beyond the pod bay doors. However; Shay is starting to become suspicious of his extremely fussy adoptive parent's true motives, and he has a growing longing to see the outside world.

The girl, Vella, Vella Tartine, has just been selected for a "great honor"; her participation in her village's highly esteemed festival for the lake monster "Mog Chothra", as one of the maidens that will potentially be devoured by the monster in exchange for the monster leaving the town in peace for another 14 years. Faced with this dire situation, Vella starts raising a question: "What if we actually tried to fight the monster?"
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* AFeteWorseThanDeath: The start of Vella's story have her caught up at the centre of one of these.

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* AFeteWorseThanDeath: The start Instead of treating the fact that they are sending their young women to be devoured by a monster in exchange for some years of mercy like the tragedy it is, Vella's story have her caught up at the centre of one of these. village treats like a festive, colorful and joyous occasion.
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* HumanSacrifice: The village chose the girl to be sacrificed to a monster, only for her to reject that decision.

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* HumanSacrifice: The village chose the girl to be sacrificed to offers up a monster, only selection of young maidens for her Mog Chothra to choose a sacrifice from, Vella among them, but she is planning to reject that decision.tradition.
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* AFeteWorseThanDeath: The start of Vella's story have her caught up as at the centre of one of these.

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* AFeteWorseThanDeath: The start of Vella's story have her caught up as at the centre of one of these.
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* ComingOfAgeStory
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* FantasticallyIndifferent: Vella's hometown doesn't seem to see anything wrong with sacrificing maidens to the resident monster. Most people treat it as a great honor, with the maidens believing they'll be remembered as heroes. The only people taking issue with the arrangement is Grandpa Beastender and Vella, and even they seem little more than irritated with the whole thing... until the actual sacrificing begins.
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* MyBelovedSmother: The aforementioned computer system that takes care of Shay seems highly overprotective and controlling, though the boy seems to believe she does it from a place of love.

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* MyBelovedSmother: The aforementioned computer system that takes care of Shay seems highly overprotective and controlling, though the boy he seems to believe she does it from a place of love.

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The story involves a boy and a girl living parallel lives; the girl goes on an adventure to fight back against being chosen for a sacrifice, while the boy lived a solitary life in a spaceship and longed for adventure.

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The story involves a boy and a girl living parallel lives; the girl goes lives;

The boy, who is named Shay, lives alone in outer space
on an adventure "incubator vessel" that carried him to safety when his world was dying. His entire life so far has been spend under the watchful eye of the ship's maternal AI, who has coddled, nourished, and entertained him through the years, shielding him from potential dangers that lurk beyond the pod bay doors. However; Shay is starting to become suspicious of his extremely fussy adoptive parent's true motives, and he has a growing longing to see the outside world.

The girl, Vella, has just been selected for a "great honor"; her participation in her village's highly esteemed festival for the lake monster "Mog Chothra", as one of the maidens that will potentially be devoured by the monster in exchange for the monster leaving the town in peace for another 14 years. Faced with this dire situation, Vella starts raising a question: "What if we actually tried
to fight back against being chosen the monster?"

Both Shay and Vella stands before before taking a fateful decision which will have great repercussions
for a sacrifice, while their lives, and the boy lived a solitary life in a spaceship and longed for adventure.
world around them.



* AFeteWorseThanDeath: The start of Vella's story have her caught up as at the centre of one of these.



* MasterComputer: The boy was living under the care of a computer system that decided much of his life.
* MyBelovedSmother: The aforementioned computer system that takes care of the boy seems highly overprotective and controlling, though the boy seems to believe she does it from a place of love.

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* MasterComputer: The boy was Shay's story begins with him living under the care of a computer system that has decided much of his life.
* MyBelovedSmother: The aforementioned computer system that takes care of the boy Shay seems highly overprotective and controlling, though the boy seems to believe she does it from a place of love.
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* EpisodicGame: The game will be divided in two parts.
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The game is set to be released in two parts with the first releasing in January 2014.
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* MyBelovedSmother: The aforementioned computer system that takes care of the boy seems highly overprotective and controlling, though the boy seems to believe she does it from a place of love.
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** RealityEnsues: Turns out having no-one [[ExecutiveMeddling watching the finances]] wasn't a very good idea.
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** RealityEnsues: Turns out not having an [[ExecutiveMeddling guy in charge of the money]] wasn't a very good idea.

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** RealityEnsues: Turns out not having an no-one [[ExecutiveMeddling guy in charge of watching the money]] finances]] wasn't a very good idea.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: A few of the voice actors, both famous and newcomer, are detailed in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SqKIWKG7GFY this video]].
** [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Hynden]] [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Walch]] as Ch't
** JenniferHale as Mom
** GreyDeLisle as Levina
** CreeSummer as Teledoor
** [[DayOfTheTentacle Nick Jameson]] as Marshal Dune
** [[{{Psychonauts}} Richard Horvitz]] as Space Weaver
** [[BrutalLegend Jack Black]] as Harm'ny Lightbeard
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[[http://www.brokenagegame.com/ It is currently up for preorder]] and set for release in Q2 2013.

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[[http://www.brokenagegame.com/ It is currently up for preorder]] and set for release in Q2 2013.preorder]].
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** [[TeenTitans Hynden]] [[AdventureTime Walch]] as Ch't

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** [[TeenTitans [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Hynden]] [[AdventureTime [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Walch]] as Ch't
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[[http://www.brokenagegame.com/ It is currently up for preorder]] and set for release

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[[http://www.brokenagegame.com/ It is currently up for preorder]] and set for release in Q2 2013.
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[[http://www.brokenagegame.com/ It is currently up for preorder]] and set for release on Q2 2013.

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[[http://www.brokenagegame.com/ It is currently up for preorder]] and set for release on Q2 2013.



* HeyItsThatGuy:

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* HeyItsThatGuy: A few of the voice actors, both famous and newcomer, are detailed in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=SqKIWKG7GFY this video]].
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** Grey DeLisle as Levina

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** Grey DeLisle GreyDeLisle as Levina
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* HeyItsThatGuy:
** [[TeenTitans Hynden]] [[AdventureTime Walch]] as Ch't
** JenniferHale as Mom
** Grey DeLisle as Levina
** CreeSummer as Teledoor
** [[DayOfTheTentacle Nick Jameson]] as Marshal Dune
** [[{{Psychonauts}} Richard Horvitz]] as Space Weaver
** [[BrutalLegend Jack Black]] as Harm'ny Lightbeard



** RealityEnsues: Turns out not having an [[ExecutiveMeddling guy in charge of the money]] wasn't a very good ideal.

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** RealityEnsues: Turns out not having an [[ExecutiveMeddling guy in charge of the money]] wasn't a very good ideal.idea.

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* ScheduleSlip: Slated to come out 6 months after the initially announced release.

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* ScheduleSlip: Slated to come out 6 months after the initially announced release.release.
** RealityEnsues: Turns out not having an [[ExecutiveMeddling guy in charge of the money]] wasn't a very good ideal.

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* ScheduleSlip: Slated to come out 6 months after the initially announced release.

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* ScheduleSlip: Slated to come out 6 months after the initially announced release.release.
** RealityEnsues: Turns out not having an [[ExecutiveMeddling guy in charge of the money]] wasn't a very good ideal.
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* ScheduleSlip: Came out 6 months after the initially announced release.

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* ScheduleSlip: Came Slated to come out 6 months after the initially announced release.

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''Broken Age'' is an upcoming adventure game by Creator/DoubleFine. It is especially notable for kicking off a Website/{{Kickstarter}} trend among video game developers when raising more than $3 million[[note]]and not quite ten times the amount it asked for[[/note]]. It involves a boy and a girl living parallel lives; the girl goes on an adventure to fight back against being chosen for a sacrifice, while the boy lived a solitary life in a spaceship and longed for adventure.

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''Broken Age'' is an upcoming adventure game by Creator/DoubleFine. It is especially notable for kicking off for raising more than $3 million[[note]]about ten times the amount it asked for[[/note]] in crowd funding via Website/{{Kickstarter}}, starting a Website/{{Kickstarter}} trend among video game developers when raising more than $3 million[[note]]and not quite ten times the amount it asked for[[/note]]. It in TheNewTens to use Kickstarter to fund their own passion projects.

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involves a boy and a girl living parallel lives; the girl goes on an adventure to fight back against being chosen for a sacrifice, while the boy lived a solitary life in a spaceship and longed for adventure.



* HumanSacrifice: The village chose the girl to be sacrificed to a monster, but she's resisting that decision.
* MasterComputer: The boy was living under its care

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* AdventureGame
* HumanSacrifice: The village chose the girl to be sacrificed to a monster, but she's resisting only for her to reject that decision.
* MasterComputer: The boy was living under its carethe care of a computer system that decided much of his life.
* ScheduleSlip: Came out 6 months after the initially announced release.
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''Broken Age'' is an upcoming adventure game by Creator/DoubleFine. It is especially notable for kicking off a Website/{{Kickstarter}} trend among video game developers when raising more than $3 million[[note]]and not quite ten times[[/note]]. It involves a boy and a girl living parallel lives; the girl goes on an adventure to fight back against being chosen for a sacrifice, while the boy lived a solitary life in a spaceship and longed for adventure.

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''Broken Age'' is an upcoming adventure game by Creator/DoubleFine. It is especially notable for kicking off a Website/{{Kickstarter}} trend among video game developers when raising more than $3 million[[note]]and not quite ten times[[/note]].times the amount it asked for[[/note]]. It involves a boy and a girl living parallel lives; the girl goes on an adventure to fight back against being chosen for a sacrifice, while the boy lived a solitary life in a spaceship and longed for adventure.
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''Broken Age'' is an upcoming adventure game by Creator/DoubleFine. It is especially notable for kicking off a Website/{{Kickstarter}} trend among video game developers when raising more than $3 million[[note]]and not quite ten times[[/note]]. It involves a boy and a girl living parallel lives; the girl goes on an adventure to fight back against being chosen for a sacrifice, while the boy lived a solitary life in a spaceship and longed for adventure.

[[http://www.brokenagegame.com/ It is currently up for preorder]] and set for release on Q2 2013.
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* HumanSacrifice: The village chose the girl to be sacrificed to a monster, but she's resisting that decision.
* MasterComputer: The boy was living under its care
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