Vi fangede en snak med skaberen bag klassikere som Maniac Mansion og The Secret of Monkey Island, Ron Gilbert, for at lære mere om hans næste eventyr Thimbleweed Park. Selvfølgelig ønskede vi at vide, hvorfor han trækker på så klassiske aner, i stedet for at skabe en moderne oplevelse.
"I love classic point & click adventures games, you know. Gary Winnick and I designed Maniac Mansion which is really kind of the first point & click adventure game. And we were just talking one day about how charming those games were and it just seems like a lot of that is lost and we wanted to go back and do another real classic point & click adventures games. So that's why we decided to a Kickstarter for Thimbleweed Park."
Manic Mansion var et af de første projekter for LucasArts, og der var han meget ung. Nu arbejder han på spillets spirituelle efterfølger, Thimbleweed Park. Vi ville gerne vide, om der er meget forskel på yngre Ron Gilbert, og ham vi stod og snakkede med nu?
"Well, yeah. I mean, obvious I'm not the same person, right. I've gone through adventure of life and I expirierenced a lot of things and stuff. I mean, I do worry, that maybe the younger Ron Gilbert was naive enough to just try weird stuff. And, you know, I think, anybody who's making movies, or writing or games or whatever, you get older and you get more expirience - you do tend to try weird things less. And I do worry about that a lot. And so I do kind of try to do a lot of weird things. Just so I can have a little bit of the young Ron Gilbert is still doing weird and crazy things. But, you know, who knows."
Thimbleweed Park udkommer i juli 2016 på PC, Mac og Linux. Det kommer også til iOS, Android og Xbox One på et senere tidspunkt.