ThunderPeel2001

The original high quality version is here: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/730309245/the-grail-diary-last-crusade-inspired £150! The quest for the perfect Grail Diary Replica is a common one A lot of prop enthusiasts make them apparently. Here's that guy from Mythbusters talking about the one he made for himself after a break up... (He's not on coke, he has allergies.)

Come back and tell us what you think when you're done!

Wow. I'm amazed they got anything at all! Although it was clearly a scam in the sense that they didn't match the images (which were stolen from another site), they did receive a facsimile of the dairy. Bonkers. It's actually better than I would have expected!

These fan renditions are getting so good these days!

I was just talking about the two Agents really. The other characters were more developed, I agree. But yes, I just didn’t gel with TWP, as much as I wanted to

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I thought that, but then I thought "would it be annoying if threads about every aspect of the game spilled into the main forum?" (eg. "Is Ron a liar?" -- doesn't really seem worth a new thread). I don't know, I guess the current main thread is sort of a "ReMI Daily Chat". I suppose we could start a new forum, rename the current MegaThread™ to "Daily Chat and News" and keep spoilers to its own thread... I mean once the game hits, is splitting things into two forums inevitable anyway? I don't know. I'm completely in two minds...

Hmm. Just because something is on archive.org doesn't mean it's not copyrighted. That website has a special exemption (which I expect to be revoked any day now...) Anything produced in 1977 is certainly still copyrighted...

I don't really find any of these quotes to be contradictory. He summed it up perfectly in his most recent blog post: "The muse comes when the work starts". You don't start with a perfectly formed idea.

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Best order: 4 5 1 2 3 6

Yes! You've summed up my problem with this better than I've been able to. Thanks

I know I've quoted this before, but here's Ron talking in 2013. He started work on Thimbleweed Park in 2014...

Weird. Maybe. I bought my Amiga version on release, though. (UK release admittedly.) I wonder.

THIMBLEWEED PARK ENDING SPOILERS

I'm too old for this insane technology 🤯 😆

But it’s a bootleg!

Thanks for your work on this! And for your comments about reporting bugs. It used to be very disheartening when you’d report them, so I gave up back in the day. It does seem much better these days though. Question: Are the enhancements enabled by default? (I hope so!)

I remember offering the stick to Guybrush in the English Amiga version — never saw that bug?

That’s a pretty huge oversight to me if you look at what I wrote about what I believe to be most important in storytelling. (“Oh I guess we should give them personalities” shouldn’t be an afterthought.) THIMBLEWEED PARK ENDING STUFF

Hopefully you can demand a refund?

I used to work in packaging for DVDs. Designed plenty of DVD box sets back in the day. As cool as these are you can’t actually use them to get “exact dimensions”. Unfortunately you still need the printer’s cutter guide, which would be supplied as a separate plate. This is because there’ll be lots of bleed on those images, and without the cutter guide you won’t know where the bleed begins, or where the folds are. (The industry standard is at least 3mm — but there’s no harm in adding more.) Don’t get wrong. I’d still love to own them. They’re extremely interesting, and I bet you could make some very good guesses using them. Just not “exact measurements” in the way you might expect.

Does it say something about the game that even as a Ron Gilbert fan you’ve not finished the game in 5 years?

Ouch!

Yep, it’s my biggest concern that Ron tries to out meta himself to the detriment of the story. It’s weird. I agree with the things that Ron says in interviews and on his blog about adventure games. The importance of story. The importance of the game world. Why adventure games suck, etc. but then I play Thimbleweed Park and I go… what happened to all that stuff you said? I believe it’s 1. Story above all else. 2. Love your characters. In the first version of TP, the main characters didn’t really have any personality. Dialogue for them was patched in later. Am afterthought. And then the story was completely jettisoned at the end. As I’ve said before: I hope he’s gotten that out of his system. But I think the presence of Grossman, who seems to really get it, too, might keep it more on track. Very interesting that neither of them said they replayed the sequels though.