Thimbleweed Park Podcast #44

Glad you are not supporting Trump...
At first I was shocked when I read the title of this Podcast. I should have known your humor :-)

Finally! A month without podcast....

Yeah, it is soooo cool that we are speaking about politics in this episode.

Because the media, social media and the internet are so saturated with it, that I cannot escape it. Once games where about escapeism from the real world. But not anymore. Everything need to be realistic and we have to take a stance against the great satan of Donald Trump at every single internet-post, game, movie and tweet. It makes me soooo happy. (but seriously I hate it. I wish I had a time machine so that I could go forwards in time so that I cannot witness this cringy time, where I have to hear about the greatest satan (trump), the great satan (Cruz), the little satan (hillary) and Bernie Christ every single day, and know that I am worse than puke for not wanting to vote for Bernie [peace be upon])

If you dont have time to edit it yourself, give the material of the missing podcast to Zak Phoenix McKracken. I'm pretty sure he will scan it for any trace of important stuff like.. um, the weather or .. or ok thats pretty much it.

Maybe an easter version of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrG4JnrN5GA
Make it so. Warp 10. Engage!

Just finished listening to it!
I couldn't wait until tomorrow to write a comment!
I had thought to create a concentrate of what Ron said during various GDC interviews, as seen on the Internet, again just for fun... then I waited until the official podcast release, that is today,  before taking any decision.
Well, I have fun with little things, so after having listened to what everyone have said, I think I'll plan to create another podcast.
Please be patient, I have a primary job, too :-D

Talking about important things: in this podcast you mentioned that you are almost ready to cast actors, by giving a sample file and to evaluate the result.
Can you estimate, today, how much time remains before the text of the game will be locked?

P.S.: for the record,  today here was raining a little! :-)
Ciao!

Uh oh, now you need to get the game done before Trump becomes president and deports Gary for besmirching the good name of Supreme Leader Trump.

Trump is a bigger, more vulgar clown than Ransome lol.

But seriously,  great to hear about the GDC show.  I imagine that there's always a lot of nervous excitement when showing off a playable demo of a new game to the public for the first time.  While not finished yet, it has to feel really good knowing that what was initially just a kickstarter campaign some 16 months ago with a really nice trailer and some rough concept designs/ideas is now a nearly full-fledged game and everyone's hard work can now be proudly displayed and shown off =)

So Donald Drumpf will be Thimbleweed Park's last boss?

Do you want to see an Atari 2600 demo of Thimbleweed Park?
https://youtu.be/BH728FBmH-c
It came out in 1987 to entice people to buy the PC ;)
I am practicing with Atari 2600 programming since about a year ago and I cannot make full games yet. I decided to do this little thing as a joke.

Menu at the Diner..
Now serving: Hot Hotdogs, Cold Coldcuts, *Ham Hamburgers and Roasted Roast Beef.
With your choice of sides: Crisp Crisps,  Fried Fries or *Salad, topped with Pickled Pickles, Beat Beats and Vinegar Vinaigrette sauce.

Listening to Gary describing the crowd scene, I remembered Monkey Island, where all the pirates you could fight seemed to be built from the same small set of images. I think there were a handful of bodies and heads that got combined at random, plus they rotated the color of the shirt.

Are you planning to do something similar for the crowd scene, or are you actually going to draw and animate each person individually?

To the TP team:
if you are still interested in advertising the game in Europe, maybe you can join the Lucca Comics and Games festival, usually at the end of October, in Italy (Tuscany).
It's the second biggest festival in the world, and the first one in Europe.
More information are available also on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucca_Comics_%26_Games
and the official website: www.luccacomicsandgames.com

Listening to the podcast today, I had this thought: why aren't you guys doing some of the character voices in the game? I can understand that you feel real voice-actors have to do the lead voices, but what about filling some minor parts? What about that?

So does that mean your podcasts aren't scripted?! (shaking head in disbelief)

Hey Ron,
As I was reading old blogposts of yours, I found that one photoshop file of the radio station. I found that quite interesting to look at all the Layers He did. Im working on a game myself and Im doing the Background f thet project too. Could you please post more of those Background photoshop files? Would be very nice!