"I know this will cause the hardcore adventure gamer's blood to boil (as it does mine), but the lack of hints was widely criticized by some of the more casual press." This addition is a completely optional, Gilbert stressed, and not something he seemed particularly enthusiastic about. The other big change lies in a new in-game hint system, designed to be an in-universe cheat phoneline of the kind seen back in '80s and '90s.
"I regret not pushing forward and implementing them from the get-go," he concluded. The new dialogue should help explain why characters are working together, Gilbert continued, make the world feel more alive and clarify plot details.
I should have pressed forward and implemented this." Time was also getting short and there was a lot of work to be done, so it wasn't a matter of me writing player dialogs or hanging out at the beach. "It always felt to me that all you'd want to do was talk to the other characters and get hints, and the early iterations of the system really showed that, so I abandoned it. "This was something I attempted during initial production but abandoned due to me being unable to think about it as anything more than an a overly complex hint system," Gilbert wrote in a new blog post. Or, in the case of chatter between characters on the same screen, part of the game's original scope.
#Thimbleweed park help Patch#
*Beepoff*īut, rather than just popping these changes in patch notes, creator Ron Gilbert has gone into detail on why the additions were necessary.
Retro-themed adventure game Thimbleweed Park has gained a couple of big additions - dialogue between player characters and an in-game hint system.
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