Tim Schafer, developer of the game, says he went to Kickstarter because he was tired of dealing with big corporations.  A sign of the future?

Schafer announced that Broken Age, Act 1 will be made available on Jan. 14 to those who backed the game on Kickstarter. Backers will be able to download the game from Steam.

Broken Age made a lot of headlines in 2012 with its extremely successful Kickstarter campaign, surpassing its initial goal of $400,000 with a total of $3.3 million from 87,142 backers.