Dungeon Master Forum

Anyone else been following this? It's a game currently on Kickstarter, being made by Ron Gilbert (he of Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, etc) and another guy called Gary Winnick (I think he made a bunch of point-and-click games as well, or helped do so). It made its funding goal in about two or three days and is now progressing with stretch goals. It's a new, pixelly, point-and-click adventure game which is mentioned as being as though it was 1987 again and stuff. Proper old-school stuff .

Nice! I am sure if Jan was here he would approve too.

Not sure they need to use Kickstarter though - the programming cannot be that difficult. Writing the story (i.e. series of jokes) is the only challenge, I would have thought.

And thinking up all the puzzles that make up the core of the game, I expect . I think with stuff like Kickstarter, it's so the maker(s) can fully pour all effort into producing their game (or whatever it is they're getting Kickstarted), hiring whatever extra help they need, and otherwise fully focusing on achieving their goal without needing to worry about silly stuff such as how to pay the bills each month in the meantime .

Only yesterday have I learned that this game exists and should be released this year. Wow! I'm thrilled! I can't believe I missed it! I haven't purchased a new game for... what?... more than 15 years I think, but I absolutely have to buy this one! I'm looking forward to it like a small boy! I can't wait!

https://thimbleweedpark.com/ is my favourite page now

Lol, so OB was right in the second post of this thread where he said you'd approve . Looking forward to this coming out. Should be good!

This looks sweet. I don't really keep my ear to the ground, so i hadn't heard of it either. Looking forward to it!

Had an e-mail today regarding the Kickstarter rewards - people who backed at a high enough tier get to record their own special voice message to be included in the game (I think there's gonna be a part with a phone where you can call any number you like or something, so "wrong numbers" will play people's anwering machine messages), and I am one of those people. Now I just need to think what to record, lol.

*pure envy*

Getting closer, really excited about it. Cool about the phone message Ameena - make sure to let us know what your number is!

Ameena wrote:Now I just need to think what to record, lol.

Just use it as a means to troll Jan for missing out?

oh_brother wrote:Just use it as a means to troll Jan for missing out?

Surely nobody would dare to do this?

EDIT: Anyway, as a means of preparing myself for this release, I started re-playing the old good Lucas Arts adventures made by Ron Gilbert... and of course, the first game on the table is MI1. Right now, I'm training with the swordmaster and preparing for the swordfights.

You don't train with the Sword Master, you train with Captain Smirk. The Sword Master (Carla) is the one you need to fo rhe training for, in order to be able to beat her .

D'oh! Now this is embarrassing! Of course you're right! I call him "swordmaster" too, don't know why. You seem to know MI backwards! I'd better watch my steps carefully next time!

Lol well, I've played the first game quite a few times so yeah, I think I know it pretty well .

Thimbleweed Park has been released! I got it as a present and am already downloading it now! I wish I had a faster Internet connection, damn!

Unfortunately, I'm so busy these days... I'll only have an hour or so a week to play it now... but I'm already looking forward to the main summer holidays .

Yipeee! It works and looks and feels absolutely fantastic! And I've even got a soundtrack! Gosh, I wish I had more time for that!

Yeah, I knew it was out yesterday but won't get time to play it for a while 'cause I'm already busy with other games (been sort-of replaying Mount and Blade recently and just a minute ago I got an e-mail with my Gwent Closed Beta key soooo, probably gonna be busy a while longer yet ). I did see in the Kickstarter update stating the release that pretty much every comment was along the lines of "Wow, good job! This is the best Kickstarter ever thanks to all the info you guys were giving out and I've started the game and it's really fun!" and variations thereupon. So it's all looking very good indeed, I would say . Just need time to get around to playing it...