Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure
Terrible Toybox · 2020 · Adventure, Indie, Point & Click, Pixel Graphics, Puzzle
PC
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About Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure
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Play as photographer Delores and investigate the bizarre changes happening in quirky Thimbleweed Park by solving point-and-click puzzles and snapping photos for the local newspaper. This free mini-adventure showcases Ron Gilbert's new adventure game engine with a charming mystery that requires no prior series knowledge to enjoy.
The year is 1988. Adventure game developer Delores Edmund, on hiatus from her job at MMucasFlem Games, has returned to Thimbleweed Park for a quick vacation. While she’s home, she’s making some extra money as a photographer for the Thimbleweed Nickel News. Hey, game developers need to eat, too!
Thimbleweed Park hasn’t changed at all in the year since Delores has been away… or has it?
…Since when is the S&D Diner a five-star establishment?
…When did the PillowBear™ become all the rage?
…Why is Ransome the Clown suddenly winning humanitarian awards?
…How come no one seems to remember that dead body that turned up under the bridge a year ago?
…Can Thimbleweed Park get any stranger?!.
In a town like Thimbleweed Park, a side career in photojournalism is the least of your problems...
Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure started out as a prototype for Ron Gilbert’s new point-and-click adventure game engine and grew into a fun little game. It is not a sequel to Thimbleweed Park and is probably missing all of the small bells and whistles that would make it a commercially viable game.
This was a challenging game to make because we had to use almost exclusively “found art” from Thimbleweed Park to create all new puzzles. Also because we couldn’t go outside IRL.
As a thank you to our fans, we are releasing it for free as something you can have fun with in these odd times. You don’t have to have played Thimbleweed Park to enjoy this mini-adventure. (But if you do enjoy it, why not check out Thimbleweed Park, hmm?)
Key Features:
Thimbleweed Park hasn’t changed at all in the year since Delores has been away… or has it?
…Since when is the S&D Diner a five-star establishment?
…When did the PillowBear™ become all the rage?
…Why is Ransome the Clown suddenly winning humanitarian awards?
…How come no one seems to remember that dead body that turned up under the bridge a year ago?
…Can Thimbleweed Park get any stranger?!.
In a town like Thimbleweed Park, a side career in photojournalism is the least of your problems...
Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure started out as a prototype for Ron Gilbert’s new point-and-click adventure game engine and grew into a fun little game. It is not a sequel to Thimbleweed Park and is probably missing all of the small bells and whistles that would make it a commercially viable game.
This was a challenging game to make because we had to use almost exclusively “found art” from Thimbleweed Park to create all new puzzles. Also because we couldn’t go outside IRL.
As a thank you to our fans, we are releasing it for free as something you can have fun with in these odd times. You don’t have to have played Thimbleweed Park to enjoy this mini-adventure. (But if you do enjoy it, why not check out Thimbleweed Park, hmm?)
Key Features:
- \Non-stop point-and-click fun!
- Return to Thimbleweed Park, the setting of the Best Adventure of 2017 award from Adventure Gamers and the Thank You for Not Still Living at Home award from Ron Gilbert’s mom. (Or, visit Thimbleweed Park for the first time! No prior knowledge required to play!)
- Explore Main Street and solve puzzles to take pictures for Thimbleweed Park’s hard-hitting newspaper. One of these days Natalie will get that Pulitzer, and it will be thanks to your help!
- Tackle increasingly difficult assignments as you get closer to figuring out what the heck is going on in Thimbleweed Park this time.
- Sample a new adventure game engine by Ron Gilbert, who created Lucasfilm’s SCUMM engine and classic games Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island back in the day.
What Steam players say
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Short and fun game1 found this helpful
This is free tiny adventure following Thimbleweed Park (or TP, no pun intended). Or so it seems. The game features Delores as the only playable character visiting most of the starting locations from TP. It starts showing the events as part 10 and one year later than the original game. Is this then a sequel ? It's unclear, it retcons parts of the ending while also giving some possible answers. It also introduces doubt with characters presenting ignorance of crucial things that happened before. The gameplay features 30 total tasks divided into random groups of 5. Once you comply them, the game closes and resets. The next time you restart, you are given 5 different ones and so on. It's a little cumbersome to meet some of the requirements for these tasks. Some are very creative, while others are just moon logic. In reality, this is all explained in a start screen. This is a small prototype that was used as a playtest for the engine and setting for Thimbleweed Park and eventually released during the start of the COVID outbreak. There's no voiceovers, no details. Just a couple of random puzzles contained in the known town locations. Fun to check out after the game and not to …1 found this helpful
A nice little addition to the main game, adding ideas for the modding comunity to finalise. Don't expect too much from this scribble, I love it anyway.
Don't expect any actual story conclusions from the main game to be wrapped up. Not much new is mentioned, so this ends up being a total timesuck. The game is at least honest about it being more of a demo of the engine than a game. The timesuck is made even worse by the credits being unnecessarily long just to try to be a meta joke about the music and credit makers, as well as espouse opinions on American political figures Still don't know what the secret of monkey ball island is.
A very short and somewhat entertaining little game, which I played because nostalgia pulled me in.
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