r/lucasarts

Heya! Ron Gilbert joined me to discuss Thimbleweed Park 2, including its murder-mystery story, returning characters, new locations and changes to the classic point-and-click interface.

We also talk about how the game unexpectedly came together, the private investor helping to fund it, reuniting the original development team and why the project was announced so early in production.

Ron also shares his thoughts on the...rather divisive ending of the original Thimbleweed Park, adventure game difficulty, in-game hints, physical editions and whether he would ever like to remake Maniac Mansion.

I've been playing the Lucasarts adventure games in release order, trying to play the original versions when possible because that's just what I prefer. So I bought them on Steam, but I also got the floppy versions running on ScummVM from the Internet archive for Loom and Monkey Island 1 and 2. I got Fate of Atlantis on Steam and started it on ScummVM but I don't like that it's the CD-ROM version with voice-overs. I'd rather play the original floppy disc version from 1992, like I did for the other games, but I can't find it as easily. Does anybody have any advice? Would just playing the CD version with voices turned off be sufficient or are there other issues with that?