That's surely a positive effect of the quarantine 😀
Thanks for having released it even free, for all of us.

Thanks! ui is much more dynamic, excellent work!

Eager to hear more about the new engine!

Is there a Linux release on the horizon for this, perchance? (I recognize that we're an essentially-zero minority, so if it's no longer worthwhile for you to target Linux, thanks for all the releases that you did make available!)

Ron, just to make it clear,  is this FREE? Thanks.

Looks like we need more pandemics.

Awesome, thank you Ron!

Any chance of a direct download for us casual adventurers without Steam accounts.

Thanks so much Ron, this is the best news I could have wished for today! Hopefully the new engine will be used for another RG adventure game in the future!

Hmm... I don't have any sound.

Oh wow! Thank you Ron, David & co.!

Wow, thats excellent and completely unexpected news. Made my weekend. Thank you Mr Gilbert and rest of the team.

I join Tommy Hand question. Could we get it on GoG?
Also, thank you so much for all your magnificent present and past artworks =)

This is such a nice surprise. Thank you!

Fantastic news!! Thank you so much for providing so many great adventuregaming moments throughout the years! Keep on pushing Disney for the rights to the Monkey Island IP - they HAVE to budge, at some point..!

Thank you Ron and David and team!!!

Wow!  You are simply the best! Thank you so much for this beautiful little gift!  All my best wishes to you and your team!

I realize you couldn't do GOG because it's curated. However, you could do itch.io. Do you have any plans to upload your game to itch.io?

Lovely revisit! Happy birthday to your mom!

What a surprise!! Thank you!! :o

Immediately installing ;)

Thanks Ron & David! The new interface is wonderfull! It will be fantastic to see another adventure with this interface!

Haven't had time to check it out yet, but roughly looked at the pictures. As a big time fan of the verbs... are they gone in your new engine or will they return, or maybe even be optional? Happy to see you working on adventure games again and crossing fingers that there might be more. :)

game doesnt run for me (probably because i am running win 10 demoversion) :( still big thanks for putting a new game out probalby gonna watch a yt video then, i am very hyped to see, what story u came up with this time.

Please get in touch with GOG! That's where I bought Thimbleweed Park. I'm sure they will be more than pleased to have this one.

You guys are, and forever will be my heros, for all the great games you made.
You are equal to Lucas and Spielberg in importance.
The rest of the world just haven't totally caught up yet.
I hope you have the success you surely deserve.
Even if not, knowing you did what you did, and that the quality is acknowledged by so many so loyally, must be heartening.

And of course: Thanks for the game! 😀

Thanks!
Won't Proton from Valve run the game? That would be easier than porting.

Any chance you will port this to touch platforms like iPad OS? Would the new UI work well?

Thanks :)

Ha, I was just using this hiatus to do my own translations of the old SCUMM games, and you release a new game, thanks ;)

Oh, and I wanted you to know that, if I could only have a tiny suitcase to pick the most meaningful things in my life, I think now I know which single book and which single album I'd take. As for the game, well it'd be one of yours, and that's something I knew immediately while I was wandering through the tunnels of Dinky Island as a child, 17 years ago. An emotion still bigger than me.

Thank you so much Ron, 'cause you're wonderful!

I wrote to GOG to suggest they invite you to add it.

The game doesn't really have a save game, it's only when you turn in 5 good photos (checking every off on your list) is the state saved.  Again, not something I'd do in a full game.

The engine is written in c++, but the game is in my new languages called Dinky.  I will be talking about it more over the next few weeks.

Just uploading a .zip to itch.io is perfectly acceptable. A lot of people just download and extract themselves manually. There's also a Steam-like itch app, but that also copes fine with just a .zip file.

what's the secret of monkey island? ... and is that really your password?

Great! Anyway, I'll have to wait for the linux version.

Thank you for all your work! But I will wait for a Linux version (Windows-free household here) and maybe it will even be available on GOG in the future, which would be nice.
Until then I will play Thimbleweed Park once more ;-) All the best for you and thank you again!

Thanks Ron, again a nice remain to our childhood. 😀

Some quick thoughts from a user experience perspective... Not about the game as such, but the interface.

1) Overall – very nice. Getting rid of the verbs while cleverly keeping them should keep both ye olde verb-clickers and the contemporary "What are all these words doing on my screen?"-people more or less happy. Eating the cake and keeping it at the same time – while not confining oneself to a fixed set of verbs.

2)  Not having to read / hear a line like "That doesn't seem to work." hundreds of times during the course of a game is a big plus.

3) Pressing period to skip a line of dialogue strikes me as a weird remnant of some bygone interface that shouldn't be a thing in 2020.  What's wrong with (right) clicking to skip a line? I found myself keeping one finger constantly hovering  above the period key while playing the game. It's not intuitive, and that makes it feel like it's working against to the need to make a new interface in the first place.

How is this handled on a touch interface? By making line-skipping impossible or by introducing a new UI button during discussions?

4) Hiding alternate verbs in a popup menu has the disadvantage of making the player right-click anything and everything just in case, mostly to discover there's nothing new in the menu (at least in this game). This amounts to nothing but a lot of pointless clicking, and could end up being more annoying than "That doesn't seem to work." in the long run.

It would be great if the mouse pointer could visually indicate that there's more to the object being pointed at than left-clicking? A little plus sign or something?  This is harder to implement on a touch-based device, of course, but could something be done for the desktop users?

5) The slow non-pixel-perfect zoom at the beginning didn't look very good. Pixels and zooming don't go well together, in my opinion. But that's nitpicking at this point, I guess, as it has nothing to do with the interface...


The interface fells pretty good, overall. It's not exactly reinventing the wheel, as far as adventure game interfaces go, although I can't seem to remember games that would work exactly like this, for some reason... It does remind me of Kult (aka. Chamber of the Sci-Mutant Priestess, for some reason...), one of my favourite old games. Clicking on things in Kult brings up a selection of verbs that are specific to that object. Many of the verbs are superfluous and only brings up different (and not necessarily useful) descriptions of the object or have no practical use at all, but it's a fun system. The results of clicking those verbs are perhaps closer to what would happen in an Infocom adventure, as most of it is text – there's no way anybody would have the time or the resources to animate all that extra stuff.

Check it out if you're interested. Exxos (later Cryo), France, 1989. fantastic pixel art (based on concept art by French comic book artist Philippe Caza), and in my opinion excellent sound design for the time. Flawed as an adventure game, but really good atmosphere and environment. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm2r5ZqZg6k

The new engine seems perfectly fine too. However one wouldn't know that this is a whole new engine unless told so. As others have said, it would be nice to hear in more detail what compelled you to make a new engine when you already had one that appeared to be very good?

I'm happy that you guys are still keeping at this. I hope this means we'll get a whole new adventure at some point!

Saw this, thought "Yay, new Thimbleweed Park content!" downloaded it, went to play it, couldn't because it requires Windows 10. :(

Any chance you could make it fallback on Direct X 11 if you're not on Windows 10, for all of us Windows 8 and 7 users?

Loved all of this; the concept, the puzzles, the interface, everything. Only thing I would change would be right-click to skip text and that's a tiny quibble. Thanks for this awesome and free surprise!

Nice, thanks!

On the topic of engines, have you looked at engge? It's a new implementation of the TP engine.

Hi Ron,
Just completed the new Delores mini-game.
LOVED it!  Was so good to be back in the town
(I'd forgotten how much I missed that music, art and atmosphere) ☺

In case it's of any use - I've passed on some of my thoughts & observations while playing to David
(didn't wanna include the link here in public)

Overall, VERY impressed with it - it felt just like being back in the original (with some nice additions! 😀 )

I'm also excited to learn more about the engine - especially now that I've realised that you're blogging about it again (I might even try to nick a feature or two, should I ever get 'round to updating SCUMM-8 ever again! :skull: )

Anyway, hope it helps.
Stay safe, & all the best!  😀

This was such a nice surprise! I also liked the spooky trailer. Looking forward to your posts concerning the engine. 😀

Thank you for this! You mentioned that David, Robert, Katerina, and Octavi helped. By chance, did Jenn Sandercock help too? I know she was on the original team and I adored her edible games cookbook which she did afterwards. I really loved all her little touches to Thimbleweed (secret note!) and I hope we get more of them in another release of yours.

@mafti: I think you can always use the "Donate" button at the bottom of the Thimbleweed Park web page (https://thimbleweedpark.com).

I meant to say I have issues with sound, not shound. Should have written "audio" ;)

WOW!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!! I played Maniac Mansion  and thimbleweed park all over againwith my girlfriend  during this quarantine !! This is such a great news!!!! Thank uuuu!!

Cheers from Argentina!!

Please keep making video games !!! <3 <3 <3

Very much appreciated

That was fun! Thanks for that!

Thanks so much for your great work. I'll enjoy this game.
Please fight for Monkey Island. One day they have to understand how much it means to you and us. We'll support you!
Best regards from germany

Hey Ron, I'd be really interested to learn how you approach writing your own scripting language. Any chance you could do a few technical posts, or maybe even a video, explaining your approach? Thanks!

Is there a way to get this without the DRM wrapper of Steam and Epic? Humblebundle? direct download?

Please release it at gog.com like the Game itself , I have all my Games there because I hate DRM

Great, thanks!
And +1 for a Linux version.

I was so excited about this, only to find out that there's no Linux-version. Bummer :o(

Thanx for the fish, Ron. Great!

Will this also come to the Nintendo Switch at some point in some way or form?

Thanks for thinking of your fans while on stay-at-home. Also looking forward to more on Dinky! Stay Safe!

Thanks for the game, but GOG would be great. Now I have a (useless) EPIC account and have to download a f*cking launcher., that I don't want, because there is no possibility to download only the game.

Hello Ron, thanks for this nice little prototype.

I didn't expect to return to Thimbleweed Park, I've enjoyed the short drive!

I've noticed a BUG in the text, it seems a charset issue.
Here is a screenshot:  https://pasteboard.co/J7UqNDq.png

Cheers!

Besides all excitement about the engine, which I share:
I really enjoy the photojournalism puzzle. IMO that kind of puzzle is exactly what I am hoping for in adventure games. Not just simple "use X with Y" inventory driven puzzles, or "linear room unlocking", but puzzles which are truly interactive with the whole game world. (Now imaging also sound being involved, or more complex dialogues, switching between characters, etc).
Replay value is also very high - e.g., for each playthrough a slightly different subset of tasks could be presented. Please, keep on designing puzzles like this one!

Thank you so much; this exactly  what I needed !! Looking forward to a real sequel or new game, cannot wait to see what comes next.

If you want feedback on the new UI: I like how it makes things flow but I feel that causes me to read less and thus Perhaps I  miss details (that  make your games so adorable). I dislike the options of items being hidden behind a right-click; maybe a classic menu at the bottom could slide up on a hover or click of an item instead.

Anyway, I love what you do, stay healthy and keep on rocking!

Best regards from Germany,
Rob

Okay, I finished the prototype, and I watched the credits sequence, and couldn't stop laughing! Very well done, El Gilberto!

Awesome! More Thimbleweed is always a good thing.

Hey Gilbert, the game in only in English. I could fix a quick translation to Spanish for free if you let me :)

Hi Ron,

thanks a lot and I mean it! I loved Thimbleweed Park and I'm happy to see this little... spin-off? I grew up with all you other games and am happy to see that there's still new material coming out. Likewise with the C&C guys next month. Good old times, right?

I hope you've got a new project in line. Can't wait to play the next game made/produce/directed by you.

Have a nice day and stay healthy!

Thanks for that little spin-off...really enjoyed it.

Am I the only one who gets the  little graphic bug from time to time where parts are flashing and showing different art?
For example if you meet Willie and he leaves the scene and you go further to the left. Then the violin repair shop flashes and shows a broken down house for a second before it restores to normal.

But anyway...loved playing it....and bad luck for you since I now know your password ;-)

@OzzieMonkey
could be, if I'm not mistaken there was a different place (was it before the bank?) where it showed serveral character art overlapping for a flash of a second....Anyway....both didn't give me a clue....it was more like a glitch (in the matrix) .....but hey....it didn't stop me from playing ;-)

Installed it (on Steam), but can't start it; it gets stuck on installing a "Microsoft VC Redist Package".

I miss the days when games came on floppies and inserting a disk and running the game's executable (or boot from the floppy, especially for non-PC platforms) was all you needed to do to run it. Now it's all packages this and Internet that, but it's not gotten any easier.

This should be a welcome respite from the soul-crushing drudgery of The Banner Saga, which I've been playing lately.  I actually took a break from it to do MI1-3, and I'm currently in 3.  That can probably wait while I play this new thing, though.  Thank you, sir!

Gosh, it requires Windows 10  :,-(

Interesting. I got it from Epic Games (I later copied the whole folder to another place in my HD to see if it runs without to launch it as Epic Games app).

There's no Prefs.json; this is the Delores directory:

concrt140.dll
Delores.exe
Delores.ggpack1
Delores.ico
Delores.rc
Duck.dll
fmod.dll
fmodstudio.dll
msvcp140.dll
msvcp140_1.dll
msvcp140_2.dll
vccorlib140.dll
vcruntime140.dll
ZiplineLT.dll

I tried to make a text file named Prefs.json with the given sentence, but it's ignored by the game.

Of course it doesn't go far... just to the next error box.
Ron, you have the power to do what nobody else does: to make me upgrade my PC to Windows 10, LOL
(ok, not on my main PC, I will do that on the backup one... there's a limit to everything ;-)

Oh -- and thanks from the bottom of my heart for all of the hours of fun that you've provided.....