We’re all invited again to the unusual city of Thimbleweed Park for a free new little spin-off. Over the weekend, Ron Gilbert and friends launched Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure, a brand new story standalone story which grew out of a prototype for Gilbert’s subsequent game engine. And it’s free for everybody to play, whether or not you personal the unique or not. And when you do need the unique, that’s discounted on sale proper now too.
Set the yr after the occasions of Thimbleweed Park, the Mini-Adventure stars Dolores on a bit vacation from her game growth job, choosing up part-time work taking images for the native newspaper. So off you go, checking in with the outdated gang, seeing what’s new, and snapping away. As a part of Gilbert’s fiddling, this has a brand new UI too, which an easy right-click menu changing ye olde wall o’ verbs.
“As I write this on the 9th day of May in the year of 2020 the Pandemic is far from over,” Gilbert wrote in Saturday’s blog post. “Different people deal with isolation, fear, social distancing and hoarding toilet paper differently. I built a game. It helped keep me sane.”
He explains that he began rebuilding the Thimbleweed Park engine again in March “with no real goal in mind, it just seemed like something to do and I had a few ideas about UI I wanted to explore.” Then it become a game prototype, and 4 people joined in, and shortly that they had themselves a brand new little game principally assembled with outdated Thimbleweed artwork and sounds.
That does considerably disgrace my massive lockdown accomplishment of watching six seasons of tattooing actuality present Ink Masters.
You can obtain Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure at no cost from Steam and the Epic Games Store. It’s on Windows and Mac.
If you need to get technical, Gilbert has written more about the engine rebuild.
Our former Adam (RPS in peace) did have lots of reward for the unique in his Thimbleweed Park review, with some reservations.
“This has been a tricky review to write because some of the things that I love about Thimbleweed will almost certainly be off-putting to other people, and some parts that fell flat might well be your favourite moments,” he stated. “It’s a dense game, which means that if one joke fails to land, there’s almost certainly a follow-up that just might, hot on its heels. The bigger picture – which I’m unwilling to reveal because this begins as a whodunnit but eventually becomes a whatisit – ties everything together, making a tidy package of all the loose threads and awkward gags.”
It has a 60% low cost on Steam and Epic for one more few hours, by the best way.
