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posted by martyb on Saturday July 01 2017, @10:38PM   Printer-friendly
from the it's-for-you dept.

Ron Gilbert's newest game, "Thimbleweed Park", has been out for a few months now but the latest patch is pretty neat.

https://forums.thimbleweedpark.com/t/thimbleweed-park-update-917-is-live/833

The most interesting parts are allowing the playable characters to talk to each other and recognition of each other when they walk past.

In a sign of the changing nature of gamers the game now includes a phone helpline but the helpline is called from phones within the game itself and it has an awareness of your progress so can give more tailored hints.

It is discussed in more detail here
http://blog.thimbleweedpark.com/hints_and_dialogs


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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Saturday July 01 2017, @11:33PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Saturday July 01 2017, @11:33PM (#534025) Journal

    Watched about 3 mins of a youtube video with one of the programmers:

    go to take a picture of the corpse-- errrr, no film in camera. Click on the guy, he has the film. click on the 'give' button, click on the film, click on the female partner. He gives the film to her.

    click on her, click on 'use', click on film, click on camera, film is loaded into camera.

    click on use, click on camera, click on corpse to take pictureofthecorpse........ AND I WAS GONE. JUST TOO MUCH EFFORT in the first couple seconds JUST to take a picture of a corpse.
    What is the rest of the game like?
    Gotta go to the bathroom: click on toilet. Can't use toilet because lid is down.
    Click on lid, click on lift. Lid lifts. Click on toilet, can't use toilet because zipper is still up. Click on zipper, click on zip. Zipper goes down.

    Click on toilet: can't use toilet because underwear is still in the way, click on underwear.......

    No. Thank. You.

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