One Last Entry

How about a post showing time frames from what was initially planned to how things ended up.

Like an entire review process of the whole development. How you dealt with the continued unexpected.

Does this mean there will be no entries after the 30th? :'( *despair*

Aww, I may weep up openly

You asked yourself the question "what is the charm of these first 1987 point 'n click adventures"?   Explain us how you kept this question hot, during the proces and what's your final conclusion?

"our time together is coming to a close"

Does it mean that there won't be any future projects? That should be the topic of the next dev blog post.

Maybe this is too far in the weeds, but what's the general architecture of the engine your created? What modules do what and how do they pass events/data to each other?

I'm dying to know a tad bit less than I am to play the game.

Let's come back on the budget. I'd be really glad to learn what changed when you decided to postpone the release date and to hire a producer. Also, I'd really appreciate getting to know how things develop after twp is released. What selling did you expect? Didn't most of the potential buyers already back the kickstarter? So, I don't really think that next post really would be the last one. To be honest, I'm already addicted to it, so you should do something like this for terrible toybox, if it happens that you stay together to create another game.

Well... you have covered practically everything about thedevelopment of the game.
Animations, special case animations, sketches, parallax, UIs, talkes, translations, backgrounds, programming, options...
... oh! The options! How many options there are in the game? :-)
Jokes apart, I think there are no more topics about game development that you didn't cover yet, since 01/01/2015.
So... how about a last podcast, where there is Ron, David, Gary, and other TWP member representatives, as many as possible?
They could tell us what is the most funny thing they did and the most boring one, for instance, in their specific area (background, programming, animations, music...)
Or...
...what about a lottery for our users of this very blog? The winner could join you in the podcast.
OK, back to reality...

I'm already tearing up. I've been following you both here on the Blog and on twitter since day one and it's been magical. Not only you get to appreciate TWP to the full extent by looking back at all the hard work put into it in more than two years, but you also begin to appreciate the classic games that pioneered the industry (Maniac, Loom, Monkey) since you had no idea of the amount of effort that was also put behind them. There was no Internet back then, and magazines didn't tell the whole behind the scenes story. This experience has been a refreshing throwback to the charm of these games than unfortunately are no longer prevalent nor relevant in an industry focused on shooters and open world me too's. I am currently enjoying the game thanks to the press review copy, putting aside all the other games of this season I was currently playing (Horizon, Zelda), almost collapsing under my own joy because Thimbleweed Park was and is my most anticipated title of the year. I'm so engulfed by the game that I wish I could hear the grinding of the C64 disk drive. I have my Apple IIc on my desk so I can believe I'm playing the game through it instead of my modern Mac. Thank you Ron, thank you very very much

On second thought, you should have gone the Robotron route.

As a music lover and musician I would love to hear about Steve Kirk's role on the game and what it was like working with him.

Why will this be the last entry?
Won't you do mobile ports, etc.? Wouldn't there be announcements from time to time about this?
Or why not have a blog post about e.g. the porting process in a few months?
Of course it can be more quite here, but why stop?

I know this might be stressing but... You could use your last post to explain what will you're next project be once you have recovered from Thimbleweed park. I know you will be *beeping* rich, but you can't live without making games, right? :) becoming rich won't stop you from  making games, right? :-/

I like to play with my gravis gamepad - is this supported?

Aw man, I'm sad.

As for suggestions, how about a list of the key milestones, with pictures?

Or a list of the highs and lows?

(I like lists.)

The save files. All about them. How to save the inventory, store the machine state of the conversations and those things.

In an earlier podcast, you mentioned that with Maniac Mansion, you worked on UNIX workstations, cross-compiled to C64 machine code and uploaded to real C64 over the network, way back in the late eighties. I was amazed by it, and I'd love to hear more. And I'd love to hear how the pipeline is today. Do you use continuous integration? With what? Travis, GitLab runners, docker? Do you have a cluster of machines to test. Or do you just have some scripts running locally? I'd love to hear more about this stuff. Also about how fast it takes to compile (I think you said 5 seconds. How was that back in the day?)

Also, you used SCUMM VM earlier, but today you just use Squirrel for the same stuff. Is that correct? Do you think Squirrel works good, or would you have rather used more like a domain specific language for your engine? I'm thinking, you probably have a Squirrel library and a lot of conventions now instead of a DSL. I'd love to hear more about this. Also, how much code is in C/C++ compared to Squirrel nowadays? (Since the compile is rather fast, I'd guess you've got quite a lot of Squirrel code).

And finally, thank you *so* much for all the updates, posts and great podcast, and the game itself. I'm very excited, and I hope it'll be insanely successful. You deserve it! As for the last post, will you do a final podcast some time after release, to sum up everything?

Take care guys, and absolutely best of luck! Thank you so much!

Instead of one last entry, I'd like our conversation to evolve: I think this blog has come to an end too, all good things... But everybody here will be eager to know the progress in sales, and probably you also will like to have any sort of feedback from us when  the game is out: how should you manage the infamous zero-day bug #47? Should patch #42 include real-time animated fog or real-lime intoxicated Fox? And so on.

Having the chance to follow the process of creating a game like this is such an honour. I've missed more technicalities about the way things are put together and how the team works... If there are automatic builds, if there's a test suite to check that rooms are functional and have all the required parts, ...

I'm sure the blog will still be used to have follow ups on the DLC for uncensored Ransome, and announcing the next adventure game using the awesome engine of TWP :)

Nah, come on! You'll have to do some updates AFTER the game ships. We want to know how many copies the game's selling, what do you think of the reactions from backers, reviewers and gamers... I know this whole Kickstarter thing forced you out of your grumpiness, but PLEASE restrain your grumpy self for some weeks more! :-)

I would be curious to know what, if any, long term plans you now have for the game engine.

Can't wait until the 30th! Have you been involved with any other games since MI etc?

AT LEAST: Make the last entry with your first holiday photo of your coming dev vacation...
Until then please give some more little blog entries about the mobile dev and how the selling process goes on.

My question: Would you do it again and if so: how can we (the backers and the blog fans) participate. If not: how can change your mind? Seriously!

Really excited and sad at the time that it's coming to an end!

I want to say thank you for all the dev related articles you posted, they're very helpful for all indie devs, established and aspiring alike.

Here are a couple of suggestions for topics I would be interested to read about still

- How did you end up implementing save games when using a scripting language like Squirrel (assuming you were using their embedded interpreter rather than your own, I might be wrong in that regard)?

- You talked about dialogue trees and a format for them in one article, but I am also interested in the rendering of the fonts.

The common style these days is to render in a dialogue box, with some closeup art of the person speaking. This has the advantage that it provides a close up of characters and from a coding perspective, simplifies the code a bit because you don't have to worry about optimal positioning of the text, and you just have to work out the size of the box and where to line wrap.  

However my personal preference is the classic SCUMM style in MI1 and onwards, as it doesn't obscure the art as much (on a statistical basis).

It would be nice to read about how you go about arranging speech text on the screen in TWP, in terms of working out it's positioning, dimensions of the box you would render each case in, line wraps, does localisation cause problems for the dynamic nature oofthe dimensions, etc... Is there a conscious effort to stop the speech text from covering up objects on the screen or do you just rely on the law of averages or not even care at all.

I hope others would find this topic insightful too

It is sad to be coming to the end of this entire development process. I've been following this project since right after the Kickstarter ended. I never heard of the Kickstarter, but vowed to buy the game immediately when I learned of the project and who was behind it.

I feel as though I'm saying goodbye to cousins after hanging out for a couple weeks during the summer. The notion of playing this game is so exciting! There's something about the way we've been involved from the beginning that makes it extra special. Sadness mixed with anticipation.

Thanks for a great show of consistency and commitment! Your work is inspirational. The only thing I would love to hear talked about is an in depth look at the potential market you believe is out there, if you're able to assess from the reception you've experienced from those who weren't fans of your work before.

Can't wait to play this game. It's seriously the number one thing I've been looking forward to for the past few months. Call me sensational. Call me addicted. I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS.

Write a (short) "Post Mortem". What went well and what did not?

"... but our time together is coming to a close."

As the other blog readers said: That makes me sad too. I would recommend to do (less frequent) blog posts. Because here you have a community that could be useful for your next games (even if you won't do another kickstarter).

Thanks for the blog, the podcasts and your answers, Ron! I can't remeber that any other Kickstarter project has done this before.

P.S.: My "bet" about the coin interface vs. verb interface is still valid... ;-)

As others already have said: I hope "last" refers to the "last development blog entry", not the last overall. There are some topics I hope will be addressed in this blog: Launch party, Final thoughts, The future of Terrible Toybox and so on.

For a last dev post I suggest this:

A screencast showing a typical dev session of you fixing a bug or improving something. I would be really interesting to see you at work. You could blurr out parts of the code you are not comfortable showing. I think this would be a valuable insight!

Thanks for the ride this far! Really looking forward to the launch!

My suggestion is to to mention my name in your last blog (Natalija Radnjic) because I'm a huge fan and all and it would mean world to me.. You can also thank your fans who were with you as a support and say their names also.. But my name has to be first, pleaseeeeeee Ron it would meant world to me

Hi,
How about a summary of the process, the tools used, the one discarded, what was out because doesn't work, etc...

Thanks!!

I think it would be great to get a blog post devoted to the sound design and music of the game. It's something you've written very little about so far.

Overall, it's been really fun to follow this blog and to see the game evolve. While I understand perfectly that you may not want to have this level of transparency with your next project(s), this blog has been truly exemplary in many ways.

I wonder how hard would it be to release a version with the original graphics before Octavi joined the team. I'm not sure how complete they were or if there were objects and/or rooms... but it'd be interesting to play the game looking like this: https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com/walkbox_video

I just want to say that today I bought Freddy Fish 2 on Steam and had my 4 year old girl play with it. Well, she followed with interest, totally sucked in the story. And to my astonishment she solved the "use scissors with helmet" puzzle in a snap. It's the best time I ever had with her. It's not true that these games are not for today's kids. Thanks for all you've done through these years.

I hope won't have to wait long years for the next point-n-click adventure after T.P.

Hey Ron :).

Will the grumpy gamer blog still talk about things unrelated to Timbleweed Park?
Will everybody join one last time for a podcast about Timbleweed Park in several months?
Where do you go from here?
And will you guys continue to be the Terrible Toybox?

A blog detailing the many ways Mark Ferrari managed to get out of doing a blog post for the last two years. :)

Instead of a blogpost

You guys should have a podcast, but not a stand up meeting, and not a Friday questions.

Instead you should have a lengthy discussion, on the project and how it developed, what goals you guys aimed for, which you reached and which failed miserably, what changed over the course of the project, your happiest and saddest memories, what you would change if anything and finally whether or not you guys achieved what you set out to do in the first place. All while shooting the breeze and having a fairly impromptu chat about the future of terribletoy box and the dozens of games you will make for us in the future!

Cheers
Jack Attack

I think you should definitely talk at least a little about your intentions with Terrible Toybox. You know we are including the Disney & Monkey Island 3 deal in our prayers, but apart from that, what are your plans?

I think with the last blog post you do a summary of the project...Concept, design, development, crowdfunding, etc.  Memories and moments.
Then, what's ahead...Tentative release dates for  backer goods.  Promotional plans/ideas.  What needs to happen to be able to port the game to other platforms.  Etc, etc.
Thanks, Ron!

Oh yeah.  And some details about the playable games that will eventually be playable in the arcade.

Please explain why this game came to full fruition while I'm still waiting for SpaceVenture?!

How about a non-technical post?

I'd like to hear about the writing process. Coming up with the story, the relations between characters, the whole world of the game, coming up with relevant puzzles. How to be a writer of adventure games.

Please keep us updated upon the release of the complete deck of all 50 characters of TWP and lots of other collectibles.

Game Engine - I'd love to see a detailed run through of the game engine itself, presented as a list of features and limitations, and then use some examples possibly from the real game (trying to be spoiler free-ish), or from a simple room you hack together just for this demo.  Include examples where the engine had to be enhanced due to real issues you hit, and how it looks after the enhancement, and the power of embedded squirrel.  Would the game engine need to be updated to make another point and click?

I have no special wish for the last dev blog entry, i just wanted to say thank you.

As a Kickstarter Backer and blogreader since day 1 I enjoyed this journey so much, because you did a really great job with this blog. I was amazed how much you told us about the project and have always been really happy, when a new reminder about a post was in my inbox.

So again, thank you very much! I hope the game and the sales reach all your goals.

Ron. Some time ago you mentioned to write to one of your emails for some customer support,
I've done this but haven't received any responses yet.

I don't have any unanswered question, currently.

I'm glad to read that this blog will be continued! I'm going to stay tuned. Though I will probably avoid reading other people's comments until I have finished the game, in order to avoid spoilers.

Anyway, thank you for this dev blog! It has been very informative and has broadened my horizon! And, thank you for this game, of course!

I hope that you will do similar blogs for your future games as well, even if the frequency of blog updates would be lower.

I thoroughly enjoyed the technical posts. Would love to hear more about your techniques in building an adventure game.

I would do a classic Scrum Meeting -- a Retrospective -- for the whole project.

By Retrospective I mean the typical "Sprint retrospective" with indications of what went right, what went wrong, what made you happy,sad,mad,puzzled, etc. together with some cool answers such as "each of you define the whole project with a movie title, and why", or things like that.

All the best !

It would be nice to see a revised budget now that the game is done. Also some thoughts about tools used, how communication between the team members worked, things you'd do differently and what not. I know you've said something about at least some points here, but some kind of post mortem would be a great read.

I wish that Steve Kirk would write about the music!

I've been here since the beginning as well, and I have enjoyed this trip so much! There will definitely be tearing up!

Can't wait to play the game!

Wow, it's happening, for real. The release date is so close now...
It has been a pleasure reading this blog, hearing the podcasts and follow the team around the Internet (and the world), we will sorely miss you.

For a final blog post, these are some ideas (some might have already been said in the previous comments):
- A retrospective on the X years of development with the entire (or as much as possible of) the team (a podcast).
- An Octavi-like video of how a room comes to life: from ideas, designs, to wireframe, code, art etc... (like he does his timelapse for his blog).
- Just write something for us, whatever!

Thank you Thimbleweed Team.
Until your next adventure!

How about... *gasp* A WALKTHROUGH?

(Yeah, I said it.  I'm taking off from work for a long week-end to play the game, and I will need all the help I can get!) :)

     -dZ.

You should do a live podcast.

Of all the projects I've backed in kickstarter this one had been by far the best. Some give virtually no updates and never interact with their backers. I've played the demo at the London event and I know in going to enjoy the full game. So regardless of what happens from here, thanks for making me feel so involved in the progress of this game. Thanks for the podcasts they've been fun and educational.  What I'd like to see in a blog update would be your experience of doing a project where backers and fans have been involved at this level. Has it been mostly positive? Would you do it again?

I would like to hear something about the calculations of the project, or finacial expectations and the reality so far.

What progress? Granted, you added some graphics, words and sounds here and there, but where's the real progress?

Off topic question:
Is Chuck The Plant in twp?

Will the credits show the voice actors and who they voiced? E.g  coroner and sheriff... btw did he voiced more than 2 Characters? Cause if you have more than 50 Characters i doubt you booked 50 actors.

The signals are strong with me tonite.

Can you write something about how your feelings towards this game has changed during the development? You once wrote that you are worried about the budget for example. So what were the downers when you wanted to throw it all away and was the uppers when you had a breakthrough for example. What was most exhausting and what was most joyfull?
And maybeeeeeeee you can tell us the secret of monkey island.

I'd like to see this post happen eventually (marketing/PR and other business considerations):

https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com/books_reviewed/586a784a7dce7c8b40c9cdf0

I would like to have seen some more posts from Gary and/or Mark on their art creation process. But again, at this time I don't assume there is a budget left to do such a kind of post. Hey: you mentioned once a doing a post on the box art - the process of selecting a design, showing some concepts,...  Would that be an option?

Unexpectedly, I also found the post on budget quite memorable. But I guess doing an update of that today would be pretty short "all the money has been spent/not much tasks left to budget (before main release)"

By coincidence, I'll have a week off after TP is released (though I am not planning on rushing and  finishing it in a week - I want to savor and enjoy every bit of exploring it)

I'd love to see a blog  post about how the team was managed, if there were any conflicts (e.g., perhaps someone was making slow progress at times or maybe someone would have liked the game to go in a slightly different direction) and how these were resolved, whether they put a strain on your relationships, etc.

We haven't heard any stories about the music progression of the game. That would be a treat.

I'd like to know how many man-hours went into backgrounds, how many into character animation, how many into game design, how many into coding, and so on.

I am torn between two feelings: happiness for the release of the game and sadness for the end of our interaction in the blog.
And I also wanted to know if there has been any different point of view between Ron and Gary during the development of the game.
Thanks very much.

It has been an amazing journey. Looking forward to your next adventure game already! You can't stop now that you've created such an awsome team :-D

There was a point during the development of the game where, for any reason, you considered cancelling it?

Forget about us...film yourself doing a speedrun on Labyrinth/Loom/whatever......or how about you and the team in pirate  and ape costumes doing the bones song........simply HAVE FUN after all the hard work

Thanks for a great blog time!

It has been great to watch this development, even though I just knew about it some months ago, way after the KS campaign ended.
Thank you Ron and Terrible Toybox! Cheers

Ron, this should have been for the Friday questions but I've forgot to ask there: if you could go back in time, what amount of money would you ask for the Kickstarter campaign, knowing how much Thimbleweed park actually cost to develop?

What I really want to see is

„Here is the Link to our new Kickstarter - Monkey Island 3“

Whats ok is:
-) Why I’d never do a Kickstarter again (Or Kickstarter vs traditional Process)
-) Why we’ve sold Thimbleweed to Disney (Or what we are going to do next)
-) Why the next one will be a 3D Action „Adventure“ (Or Why it took ages to make a new adventure game)

What's next? Plans for Thimbleweed Park development after release, TWP merchandise development and distribution, marketing etc.
And what's next after TWP if the game will be successul.

I can't describe how much this dev blog has impressed me, both the curators and the contributors.

Ron, Gary, David thank you. And Jenn, Mark and all the other talented humans that have worked and contributed to this project.

That must also include the contributors on this blog, far moreso than on most projects. Amazing support.

Whatever comes from the launch of this game, I have never seen a forum as tight and radical and supported as this dev blog. Much love to everyone involved.

In a weird, fucked up world, this brings me peace. Roll on March 30th.

Dean.

I want to write something heavy with meaning, but i don't know what :/

How about a blog post about all the ways (you can remember) the community contributing to the project. The specs of dust collectible, the phone book entry getting voicemail etc.

Will grumpygamer.com be alive again?

Hi,

well I would expect you to once the game has aired, how much millions you have already earned and if the baking account is already full (let me know when you need a spill over account). Questions would be also, what are the feedback channels for you (is there any telemetry collected (at least for the XBOX I guess) or can people send you a smile or frawn somewhere? were the selling numbers those expected by you or where they exceeded by 100x times? After sales sounds interesting to me as I expect a huge interest in the game (if not priced at a tremendous high Niveau)

Thanks, Jens.

My happiness about the game being released is greater than then sorrow of course. BUT: The blog was wonderful and we were able to closely observe how a game like this is made ... and how it evolved from "strictly retro" to this actually very beautiful and technically advanced looking new adventure game I was waiting for. So THANK YOU is the only thing I can say.

My dev question would be:
Since of course a lot of talk is about SCUMM and the new engine I would be interested to learn what the biggest differences are ? Were there things in SCUMM you are actually still missing in the new engine and what kind of things would you have wanted to have back then in SCUMM? Plus ... does "the engine" (plus it's tools) also have a funny name? SCUMM was so heavily used inside the games themselves so it does need a name like that , I think :-) Since you said you always hate a game you did when it comes to a close ... how about the name RAGE(tm) (Ron's Adventure Game Engine) ? ;-)

I'd like to hear about
1. the story writing process (could wait for after the release because of spoilers)
2. a retrospective: highs and lows. How did your initial plans evolve over time? What was the most unexpected thing you had to deal with?
(maybe also after release)
3. sales, budget, numbers. What did it cost in the end? How many games do you have to sell to break even/feel good/get rich enough to buy Disney. (also after the first millions are in)

But I'd also enjoy
4.. Engine stuff.
5. Music.

For the last blog provide means of what everybody should/could do.
i.e. write reviews, share news on the game or whatever would help the success of the game.
After all most of us here are 'shareholders' without any return ;-) So the (financial) success of the game should still be in the interest of everyone.
Consider this blog and us here your homies/groupies/crowd and make USE of it ;-)
I.e. if you could need REAL feedback such as: "played this game for 10 days straight in the evening with my wife only interrupted by frequent making out.' to quote somewhere, ask for it in the last blog maybe.

Hi,

MI2 had the iMuse system, wasn´t that usable for TWP as of copyright issues?

-Jens

I'm getting impatient. Also i'm 8 hours ahead of PDT.
".. I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now! .." !!one!exclamation-mark!1!eleven!!!!!!!!!!!!

Right. Before I completely forget to ask, because I'm not sure when or how exactly the game codes are going to be given to everybody who has supported it:

I still have an older email for the pledge manager. I can click on it, but the only option it gives me is to make a new pledge. It asks me to confirm upping my pledge to a higher level, but doesn't mention what I've actually got. I'm sure I remember how much I gave to support, but in this page, I can't even look it up.

Will I go to this page to get a gog or steam key? How is this going to be done?

Any chance you could release the above first version of the game  as a screen saver?

Do you feel that the launch of the remake of Full Throttle will hurt TWP sales or rather add momentum to the genre right now and thus increase overall success of TWP?

Do you have analytics in the game?

It would be awesome to have a kind of "paths tree" enlightened with the paths the current users have played.
And ring a bell each time a user finishes the game. :)

Then you could see a heat map of the paths and take the improvements for the next game?

Write a post about writing blog posts. How you come up with ideas for blog posts etc.

By the way: GOG Galaxy will be out of beta with 1.2. It includes, among other things, universal cloud saves!
https://www.gog.com/news/gog_galaxy_biggest_update_yet_marks_the_end_of_beta

5 Stages of acceptance:

- Still 8 days to release? It can't be. There must be something wrong!!
- Why me. Its not fair! Testers all around the world are already enjoying it. Who's responsible for this sculduggery?
- Dear ThimbleGod, i will sacrifice my point&click finger if i receive the game early, pretty please, with bribe dough on top!
- beep I already waited years for this beepin' **beep** of beep to ship. Whooo cares. I'll play sierra games instead till the end of times. sob
- Hmpf. I have to accept it. Its only 7.9 days. Not that much after all. I just signed up for an GOG account. I'm prepared, its going to be awesome :)

I didn't follow you enough but I wish you the Best.

Well... Not Beauty but the Best.

this game locks so nice and interesting. Can't wait!!!

PLease write about your experiences doing a new game that feels old, like, what differences to the old games you went through using  the new technologies and these things.
That would be quite interes´ting!

"SEEEVEEEEN DAAAAYSSSS..."
It looks like "The ring", today!!!!

Does this means that you are going to start updating http://grumpygamer.com/ ?!

I really wish a making of :)

By the way, the discussions on this dev blog have been so important for the development of this game that, in my opinion, you ought to freeze the comments for all previous blog posts, so that these comments would not be mixed with later comments composed after the release of the game. If someone read the previous blog entries retrospectively one day, he would probably be rather interested in the comments which were composed before the release of the game. The release date changes everything.

If it's the last dev blog entry, you really should do a technical one on puzzle building.  I'd really love to see how you put a very simple puzzle together.  Something that included a couple of items and a dialog, and how those systems work together to change state.

I want to buy 5 copies of TP (on steam) for me and my friends.

How much will the game cost?

Hi, I found this super interesting interview with Clint Bajakian and Michael Land: https://vimeo.com/ehtonal/imuse

Hi Ron,

I like to see......WHAT is THIS behind youm a 3 headed Monkey!!!

Any info on what time it will be released in each country? Is it just always midnight local time or is it one set time for all around the world?

Hey, Ron:

Quick question, if you're still looking at comments (wish I asked this earlier):

Just finished your Talks at Google video (loved it!), and was wondering: You mentioned the mansion in Maniac Mansion as being sort of the main character in that game. Would you say you and the team thought of and designed the town of Thimbleweed Park as the sort of main character in this game? Or if not, do you think of it as such now looking back on the game post-development?

Would love to know your thoughts.

Randy

Can't wait to pre-order this game. Do yo know when it will show up on xbox.com?

When you turn on debugging, there's a bunch of debugging symbols.  Boxes are obviously objects, polygons walk-boxes, but what are the crosses?  What other kinds of debugging tools are there?

Any new about boxed version ?

Interestingly, the release of the game is on the 30th, while MM was released 30 years ago. Also, the 03 (for March) is a 30 in reverse.
Actually, we could have sensed the release date in advance! :-D

The Clown is the killer \spoiler

To avoid the anxiousness I started reading the blog from post 1, and guys, what a beautiful and outstanding job you did with the graphics!!
I remember a comment made by a user (more than a year ago) expressing his concern about how they graphics look, and looking at the reference he was talking about, I agreed. But I don´t know where, you made a twist and could achieve this incredible art with such cozy color palette that creates a very comfortable atmosphere.

I can´t wait to put my hands on TWP.

Hey, anyone knows when the box edition will be shipping?
I can't wait for my big box!

This has been a pleasure to talk about Thimbleweed Park on my radio show, Inspirado Projecto, and ideally I can interview Ron, David, and/or Gary sometime for  KCHUNG 1630AM! Thimbleweed Park is phenomenal!

"If I Made Another Thimbleweed Park"

Here is my suggestion for a last post:

One of my favorite quotes ever is one you said in a Maniac Mantion post-morten that I saw on GDC Vault: "sometimes it really is important to just be too stupid to know that it can't be done". I've been reading Thimbleweed Park devblog from day 0, and it seemed that this time you already had all the experience and all the tools to build this game beforehand. You even knew what the problems were going to be.

So, what do you think that was the key to keep the process of making it still fun for you, and to finally get something fresh, without that amazing driving force that is the really unknown and having to compensate unexpected problems and technical limitations with pure magic and creativity?

I know about some new problems that have arisen and you commented on this blog and/or on some interviews, but a last post would be a good place to sum up all that experience, highlight what was really unexpected (for good or for bad), and to finally compact all it in another killing line to be quoted in the future.

I'd be very interested in a post about the Xbox port, especially if the game is an UWP app (as it is "Play Anywhere") and how much of the Windows code you could carry over to the Xbox.

SPOILER ALARM!!!

Oh man how funny the Achievements are. https://www.trueachievements.com/game/Thimbleweed-Park/achievements

An entry I still would like to see is one about the layers of the pictures. Not just foreground and background, but also the effects and all the little tweaks when resizing or moving elements, changing the lighting and so on. It all sounds like those details are extra, but seeing Ransom in the trailer in front of the propeller with the steady light changes makes it clear, that all those efforts are quite essential. So a direct comparison of a scene with effects "on" and "off" including a rough estimation how much time was invested in getting this difference compared to just the pixel art would be interesting to see.