Issue #103: We Thimble into Thimbleweed Park 2
Insert Kramer meme here.
Finally, some good news!
We’re all on our CEO-mandated summer holiday — for tax reasons, natch — but there are limits to his benevolence. Like, should Ron Gilbert announce Thimbleweed Park 2? It’d be back to work for all of us, no matter if we’re limited to working on our iPads.
And, here we are, back to work, on less-than-ideal devices for typing. I apologize for any and all oddities.
TWP then. Go read the whole announcement, but to toss out a few highlights:
Mark Ferrari, Gary Winnick, David Fox, Octavi Navarro, and Robert Megone are all back, which is universally good news. I guess Ferrari was pulled out of retirement to a tearful applause from every EGA aficionado. Take my money and all that.
The TWP dev blog will be back, which is great news for Mojo — stealing reporting news will be much easier.
The game will be self-published with the help of a private investor, who we can exclusively reveal is not Thrik.
TWP will be available on Mac, Windows, and Linux, and you can wishlist the game on Steam. A GOG version will also see the light of day. I’m not a gambling man, but if I were, I’d put down a few bucks on other platforms being made available as the game gets further into development — release date is some ways out: 2028.
Mandated Reading
So, there’s very little information out there as of yet, so why not enjoy some Mojo content from the original game?
Our interview with Gary Winnick and Ron Gilbert: In retrospect, it was a bit premature, but what can you do?
The timely review: We liked it.
And that was it. Yow. Kind of embarrassing, but those were meager years for us, and, as far as I can remember, the end of Mojo was nigh. Luckily, the CEO’s power play put us back on course.
This time we won’t drop the ball. At least not quite as frequently.
— Remi
This Week’s Thimbleweed Park Trivia
Look, I swear to god, we’ll put some effort into our OG-TWP database entry. For now, here are the three trivia pieces we got.
Bonus: During the pando, I made a web version of the in-game White Pages. How many Mojoers can you find?
Bonus bonus: Ransome is our Fun Zone mascot.
Bonus bonus bonus: Twenty-two years ago we coined Ron’s oh-so-commonly-used nickname, “Ronzo.” More below.
Rock Out to TWP
Buy the sucker on Bandcamp. I mean, yeah, you can find it on the ‘tube, but it’s worth the purchase.
Poll: Ya Guessed It
TWP2 — will you buy it?
Historical Moments in History
22 years ago this week, We coined the term “Ronzo.”
Merch for the People
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Full News Roundup
29 Jul: Ron announces Thimbleweed Park 2: Coming your way 2028.
28 Jul: Double Fine Reportedly Hit With Layoffs: Bummer of a news day.
Last Week’s Mojole Results
It’s the game that sweeps the nation! Can you beat Mojole, our fiendishly difficult daily puzzler? Only hardcore LucasArts aficionados need apply.
23 Jul: “##bat##” – Batch file -- you used them to run LEC games in DOS.
24 Jul: “house##” – International House of Mojo. Come on!
25 Jul: “demo###” – LEC games often had demos.
26 Jul: “rapp###” – Rapp Scallion. RIP.
27 Jul: “nicki##” – Nicki Rapp: Common TTG and Double Fine actor.
28 Jul: “debug##” – Debug mode -- how you really get into those SCUMM games.
29 Jul: “sound##” – It could be a royal pain getting sound working in those DOS LEC (or otherwise) games.
And for the competitive amongst you, the Mojole forum thread has gone strong for more than two years. The two juggernauts to beat: Sushi and Huz Niemendwasser.
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