The much-anticipated Broken Age Act 2, which was initially expected to be released by the end of 2014, will instead be releasing "early next year," according to the video game's producer.
Greg Rice, from Double Fine Productions, posted the news on the official forums of Broken Age.
"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 Rice, adding that with the recently released updates and documentary episodes, the launch of Broken Age Act 2 will likely be released early 2015.
Playtesting sessions for Broken Age Act 2 are clocking in at between 8 hours to 12 hours, Rice revealed, which would make Broken Age Act 2 much longer compared to Broken Age Act 1, which was released back in January.
Rice said that testing has been going very well, with the production team "seeing exactly what we were hoping." Rice added that the puzzles for Act 2 have provided an adequate level of challenge, and that nothing within the game looks like it would need heavy re-working.
However, according to Rice, the most important thing that the production team learned from the playtesting is that the players are laughing a lot and look really pleased with how the story of the video game goes.
Tim Schafer, the founder of Double Fine Productions, revealed in October that he had completed writing the game's second act, which cleared the way to begin voice acting and other production work necessary to complete the game.
Broken Age began as an unnamed video game that was posted on the crowdfunding website Kickstarter to raise funds for its production. The game went on to become the second project on the website to raise over $1 million, eventually raising a total of $3.3 million.
The game was initially promised to be launched in October 2012, but Broken Age's launch was pushed back to September 2013. However, in July 2013, Schafer divided the game into two acts to be able to have something released by January 2014.
Broken Age will be completed with the release of Act 2, which will buyers and backers of Act 1 will be able to get for free.
Just recently, Double Fine revealed that it cancelled an undisclosed project due to problems with its publishing deal. The cancellation led to the firing of 12 employees. However, according to Schafer, the layoffs will not cause any disruptions to the development of Broken Age Act 2.
