Thimbleweed Park Podcast #65

Oh no, don´t close that arcade :(
Patch means it reopens later?

Dang it, Gary got cut off right when he started telling about it!

What a pity, none talked about the weather! ;-(

Steve Kirk is an amazing musician.

New headset and I'm tired as fuck.

Ue' Filippo, ciao! Allora... c'erano una volta tre porcellini... Ahahah... Niente semplicemente David Fox, Ron Gilbert e Gary Winnick parlano di quello che hanno fatto dall'uscita dell'ultimo podcast, e cioè nell'ultimo mese e mezzo. Allora Ron è stato in tour in Europa, principalmente Germania e Regno Unito, dove ha portato una demo per la stampa e incontrato il pubblico, i tanti fan e i sostenitori del progetto. Negli ultimi giorni sta lavorando per chiudere definitivamente il codice del gioco per il giorno 20. Dopo quella data non sarà possibile più modificarlo, a meno di grossi errori. Le modifiche minori saranno affrontate successivamente alla uscita e confluiranno in una prima patch. Infatti la sala giochi arcade esplorabile nel gioco rimarrà chiusa nella prima versione. Solo successivamente sarà implementata la possiilità di entrarvi e giocare a dei titoli anni '80. David infatti si sta occupando degli ultimi bug ed errori ed ha quasi finito. Gary ha lavorato principalmente alla traduzione della grafica nelle quattro lingue in cui il gioco è tradotto. Ci sono alcune difficoltà dovute alle differenti lunghezze delle parole (specialmente in tedesco) che a volte non riescono ad entrare esattamente negli stessi posti delle controparti originali in inglese. Decideranno a breve come risolvere. Finita questa fase di chiusura definitiva del codice, inizieranno i test dei giocatori nelle versioni tradotte. Anche Ron la giocherà e si farà aiutare dalla possibilità che il gioco ha di passare quando si vuole da una lingua all'altra, ma d'altra parte ormai concoscono il gioco a memoria. Queste le cose principali, ci diranno loro poi quale sarà la data, che non vogliono rivelare ancora per non doversi rimangiare la parola.
Ciao Fili', a buon rendere...

1) Let's wait and see how the Switch itself will sell. However, the success of the Wii U has been a big disappointment.

Nintendo is shoveling their own death.

4) -- Hopefully Zak brought light and humor into your childhood and didn't end up permanently warping you. Yes, Annie lived around the corner from me in San Francisco and had all these strange crystals in her store. No, not really. But she's into this stuff as much as I am. She WOULD have had a store around the corner if she hadn't been living in NY at the time :-)

For the man that brings balance to the force (and to the voice acting): David, did the beeping of about 600 of Ransome's lines help you reach the zen guru master level of consciousness?

Hi fake-Ron. Are all languages now completely done? In the Podcast only German was mentioned and especially because of its longer texts. But I have the impression French language being much worse regarding word/text length.

Ron better gets all done in early March so he can use the remaining time wisely... to work on an crazy prank for 1st of April, as every year :D

The podcast was record at the beginning of the week, Steam integration, achievements and cloud saves are already done.

They will get an email describing how to get the game.
I'd assume it will contain a link where you will select the distribution platform of your choice (GOG/Steam/?) and then you'll get the actual key sent.

When the game is release, you will get an email with a steam code.  Before that, you will get the option to select a DRM free version, in that case, it will come from GoG.  This will all be explained in an email that will come when the game launches, so just wait for that.

That will be announced when we announce the release date, which will also open up pre-orders.

I just had a tiny peek... and I can say that seeing all those names in the phone book with all these voice messages, plus the huge amount of library books is amazing. Apart from the story itself, there's so much more in the game. It's a testimony of the adventure gaming community as a whole. All these people with their stories, it's a wonderful gift. Thanks Ron, David and Gary, and Jenn, and everybody else.

"Plan" sounds like a good plan!
(But "Karte" not so much since these kind of shops often sell greeting cards == "Karte")

By the way, a city map is called "Stadtplan" in German, rather than "Landkarte".

Yep, they are working cross platform.

Nice!
Have you done it in this order or did you start playing DOTT, then MM, then DOTT?

Speak for yourself.   I'll happily pay anything for this game!

I concur! ^_^

Ron, why do the pidgin brothers have girl voice actors!
I fear i have a crush on them.

Of the Sierra games, the only one I really played a lot was Laura Bow, just because when I grew up I wanted to try it again with a better knowledge of the English language and only then I understood that it was meant to be played more and more times in order to advance, using knowledge from previous plays to do the right thing at the right time. And I was also angry a.f. when I found out that "look X" and "look into X" were two different verbs.

Of the Lucas games, I'd say Zak McKracken. After a couple of times running out of money and dying, I started to take notes, drew a map of all the flight connections and what was in each destination in order to save money on flights, and so on. It was frustrating, since I was already used to the no-dead-end-games of the post-MI era, but in the end I loved it, it really felt like going on an adventure.

"The Dig" was the first adventure I finished without the help of a solution and it wasn't that hard in my opinion. You were guided very well through that adventure and had always a good feeling of what you have to do.
My fist "talkie" was DotT, and I found it much harder.

Wow...sounds like I'm in for a challenge with Zak!

Funny, I always thought that DOTT (along with Full Throttle) were the easiest (and shortest) ones.

according to Ron"s comment in the post "Content complete":
"The boxed version will be available for everyone to buy, but it won't include a feelie or some other KS extra. It won't be for sale for several months after the KS box is shipped."

So many Italian fans here!
Those two modes will work exactly the same as in MI2. I.e. on hard you will have more puzzles, more interactions, a little more dialog. The story will be the same, so if you've completed all story lines before on easy it won't be that different.

But you will get an achievement so it will be worth it :-)

Just play it the hard way...

Hi Bob, what's the weather like there in, ahem, were do you live exactly? (I'm from Naples). As Ron stated ...somewhere (too much reading, my mind gets to the point by now) you sure will enjoy re-playing the game. There are five playable characters, and once you completed the game with one of them, you can stay in the game, switch to another character, do the actions he/she has to do to complete his/her story, and then complete all the five stories. In addiction to this, you can solve puzzles and go trough part of the story with different characters. Every character has his/hers lines of dialogue and way of approaching. So if you have completed the game the first time mostly with Antonio Reyes (just to say one of the characters) in easy mode, you can replay the game in hard mode and focus your gameplay on another character. In any case you can always see all the endings of the different characters in one gameplay session. Am I wrong TWP-Devs?

I still wonder how the hell they handled the logical complexity of all this stuff. Chapeau!

Hello bobdeniro,

I'm italian too, from Brescia, not in my fifties yet ;-)

Since you are an experienced adventure game user, I suggest you to play the game immediately in Normal mode, and not in the easy one (it's called "Casual mode" in Thimbleweed Park).
Trust us, users of this Dev Blog, we discussed about it for weeks...
Nor Treblig will provide the post where we discussed about it.
Isn't it? ;-)

Ah! Back in the good ol' days of Telltale modship, we would hand out 24 hour bans for fake "It's released" posters.

Those were the days! ;)

BIG LOL! 8D

I remember Jenn stating there are 50 characters in the game. Some supporting characters (like franklin the ghost) can also be played. Others on the contrary are non interactable or don't have text at all.
How many screens were not CUT! CUT! CUT! and are still in the game could only answered by one of the devs.

Well, one thing I know for sure is that backgrounds are compressed into character sets and functions can take up to eight parameters.

I don't know, I didn't watch the playgame sessions on purpose, in order to avoid spoilers.
I was thinking... it had to be tough to have the pigeon's lips synched...

...wow! The signals are strong, tonight!