Thimbleweed Park 2 – Ron Gilbert video interview

• Interviews by Laura Cress
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We were all excited to learn that Ron Gilbert is working on another game set in the Thimbleweed Park universe when he revealed as much in his Grumpy Gamer blog. I was also a little surprised considering he had previously told me he wanted to move away from traditional point-and-clicks and focus on narrative games.

So I grabbed Ron for a chat to find out why he decided to go back to that odd little town, and what the new game – described as not a prequel, not a sequel – will focus on: Where, other than the Edmund mansion, will it be set, for example, and will we see the return of the verb interface to solve puzzles, or something closer to Return to Monkey Island?

Ron also shared his thoughts on the divisive ending of the original Thimbleweed Park, as well as other varied topics like adventure game difficulty, in-game hints, physical editions and whether he would ever like to remake Maniac Mansion (because why not!).