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https://grumpygamer.com/april_fools_2022

Ron is developer of the Monkey Island adventure games, while at lucas arts, now the IP is owned by Disney.

So he made another adventure game (similar but different) called "thimbleweed park". I played through. It was fun. He made a development blog, while making it (it was a kickstarter).

https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com

but now I have no idea if this new thing is real or not...

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Thimbleweed Park was a great game. Lots of great in-jokes, a useful help/hint system, and the classic old-school adventure game look/feel that I played as a kid and since longed for.

I’ve long awaited more stuff from Ron Gilbert since then.

Just bought Thimbleweed Park to support the studio bringing back Monkey Island! (Looks like a fun game in its own right too)

I'm going to avoid spoilers because I don't know how welcome they would be, but I kinda hated the ending. It felt like a lazy cliche which made me feel more distant from the characters who I had become friends with.

How appropriate, you fight like a cow.

I felt the same way. But to be fair, one could expect that as he pulled the same thing in MI2.

I am convinced that the game has either a second ending or a secret area, but I couldn't find any way to reach either.

Maybe there's a "good" ending, but no one has managed to find it yet. One can only hope...

https://twitter.com/grumpygamer/status/380819751208902656?s=...

9 years.. that's the long game.

I second the motion that Thimbleweed Park is a great game. Super fun and great sense of humor. Cool atmosphere too.

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