Thimbleweed Park Podcast #39
by Ron Gilbert
Jan 30, 2016
Jan 30, 2016
Proof that you don't have to know what your doing to make a game.
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- Ron
Thank you!
What do you mean when at the end of the podcasts you say "I will talk to each one of you later" to your team?
Small spoiler, but still: all right!
On the one hand direct character movement has some advantages indeed. I remember when I played The Secret of Monkey Island for the first time, it was the first point & click game I ever played, I was a bit surprised in the first instance, because I was used to the direct control from the Sierra games.
Especially children use to like to identify with the character they control. By using the mouse cursor you only give instructions 'to the character', whereas a direct control may help the player to get immersed in the game more quickly.
On the other hand TP is intended to be an homage. So you should carefully measure, whether the game benefits from it in the long term, because once the player has gotten accustomed to the direct control, he may shit on classic point & click, which would be sad, not only for TP but also for the whole point & click genre.
Even though it won't bother me, since I'm going to play it on a PC, I have to note that in my opinion the point & click control probably gets me in a reminiscent mood like nothing else in an adventure game. It's one of the (lots of) reasons why I disliked Monkey Island IV and V.
:D
My thought was, why not make use of both sticks? One gives fast sweeping movements and then the other has slower, more precise movements. You would be able to quickly move to the general area that you wanted to be in, then target the exact position that you wanted to click. Perhaps using the shoulder buttons/triggers so you can keep thumbs on the sticks at all times.
Dunno if this would work in practice or not.
Thank you for your comment, David! :-)
And somehow i believe you guys are goin to win that.
Also, about the controller...
The igipad could be used for the verbs only. Just an idea.
You should add Jimmy the antichrist child to the game. He is controlling the boy scout cookies business whilst plotting to rule the world.
http://s9.postimg.org/n43b0dvfz/vomit_reyes.png
I am not used to listen to spoken english, too, because I'm italian, but I can understand what they say (Ron Gilbert is the one who speaks clearer than the others), even if sometimes I have to re-listen to the podcast, to fully understand everything.
Once I had difficulties to fully understand what David Fox said via skype: I asked for help here on the blog, and someone kindly answered me, writing what he said.
Anyway, it's our problem, not their.
PS. You scared the shit out of me when you said "lets just start over"
Sorta like when your boss says "You're Fired" and you cant tell if hes joking
He needs 1.5 hour to just find back those 15 minutes of chatter.
;)
P.S. "Seckrit question was wrong" again!! But my answer wasn't!
:D