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Adventure game veterans Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick have launched a new Kickstarter project to fund development of Thimbleweed Park, a new 2D point & click adventure billed as the spiritual successor to Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island.
“Thimbleweed Park is the curious story of two washed up detectives called in to investigate a dead body found in the river just outside of town,” explains the Kickstarter blurb. “It’s a game where you switch between five playable characters while uncovering the dark, satirical and bizarre world of Thimbleweed Park.
“Lost along a dusty stretch of highway, the town of Thimbleweed Park once boasted an opulent hotel, a vibrant business district and the state’s largest pillow factory, but now teeters on the edge of oblivion and continues to exist for no real reason. It’s a town that makes you itch and your skin crawl. It’s a place no one ever looks for, but everyone seems to find.”
A $20 pledge will secure you a copy of the game, which the team aims to have ready in June 2016, though is upfront enough to realise that development may suffer from a minor delay.
$375,000 is the Kickstarter goal and it looks like this should be reached given $127,507 has already been raised in just one day.
“Not far from town, Delores and her siblings are gathered at the reading of her rich uncle’s will where the backstabbing, intrigue and puzzle solving knows no end,” continues the Kickstarter. “How is this all connected to the dead body under the bridge? Good question.
“At the long abandoned circus grounds, Ransome the Clown had been cursed and can never remove his make-up. How did he get into this situation? How can he get out? Does he really want to? What’s up with that dead body slowly bloating in the water? Who knows!
“Meanwhile, on the 13th floor of the Edmund hotel, Franklin wakes up with no idea how he got there. But that’s not the weird part. The weird part is that he’s dead. Spoiler: He’s not the body found just outside of Thimbleweed Park. Wow! That’s confusing. Don’t panic, we’re just as confused as you are.”
As ever there’s a range of goodies on offer to those who back the project, though the team has yet to discuss stretch goals.
Source: Kickstarter
