The authors of the popular surreal and dark humored comics/cartoon series Cyanide & Happiness are developing a PnC adventure game…
…that they will launch a Kickstarter campaign on Sep 5th, 2017…
…and that they have mentioned Thimbleweed Park as the inspiration for their game?
From the press release:
"The game will be a dark humored point-and-click adventure game inspired by the classics such as The Secret of Monkey Island, Grim Fandango, and Thimbleweed Park. "
It is my understanding that they do, but it costs a lot more. You need to buy the collector’s box and you’ll find a DRM-free copy of the game inside.
Anyway, I backed it. Regardless of what the backers get, it’s nice to see that a very popular franchise wants to develop a classic point-and-click adventure game.
What surprises me a bit is that while the popularity of Cyanide & Happiness is probably higher than the popularity of Ron Gilbert & Gary Winnick, the Thimbleweed Park campaign was able to attract more backers in the first week:
Maybe it’s because Ron and Gary are popular with adventure game fans but C&H fans aren’t typically adventure gamer fans.
For easier reference: Here is a list of their Kickstarter projects (for some reason they create a new Kickstarter account every time they make a new campaign):
That’s probably true. From some comments of their backers and followers I suspect that some people don’t have idea of what is a point and click adventure game.
I just backed, will be cool to follow their development blog…
Hopefully they will have stand-up meeting podcasts detailing what they did this week and what they will be doing next week.