Ronzo's new graphic adventure

[Rum Rogers 31]

According to the Terrible Toybox job openings, Ron and Gary are working on a new, unannounced graphic adventure.

 

https://terribletoybox.com/job_art_director

 

I'm excited. Thoughts?

[Remi 41]

I'm so excited that I'll news it!

[Rum Rogers 31]

Another Rum Rogers mention from Mojo? Cool sh**.

[Rum Rogers 31]

This is the post from their Facebook feed.

[Jenni 54]

I Was A Teenage Lobot revival?

[Rum Rogers 31]

Here we go again!

Three (3!) open positions at Terrible Toybox. I'm dying to know what Ronzo's working on.
The hype, man.

[Lagomorph01 38]

Oehhh! I’d love a new game from Ron! Thimbleweed Park really proved to me how good of a storyteller he is!

[Rum Rogers 31]

Not that he really needed to prove anything, but I get what you mean!

[Blondebeard 26]

It seems they no longer mention pixel art like the first job opening but “2d illustrated”. 

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“Terrible Toybox (the creator, developer, and publisher of Thimbleweed Park) is looking for an experienced, versatile full-time full-time background or environment artist to work on an unannounced 2D illustrated point-and-click adventure game.“

I am curious to know if that means they are shifting art style. I would love to see cell shaded style coming out from Ron.

[Jake 118]

If their animator request is to be taken literally, they’re using Spine, which is not a pixel art tool but is used for a hybrid of 2D animation and tween-style deformation of illustrations. It’s used by Size Five games (the latest Ben & Dan game for example) and can produce output similar to the animation in Broken Age. 
 

I’ll be clear here that I’ve never used Spine and don’t know all the contexts in which it’s used, but it’s definitely a general purpose 2D animation tool. 

[Lagomorph01 38]

19 hours ago, Rum Rogers said:

Not that he really needed to prove anything, but I get what you mean!

You’re right. I meant reaffirmed.

[Blondebeard 26]

20 hours ago, Jake said:

If their animator request is to be taken literally, they’re using Spine, which is not a pixel art tool but is used for a hybrid of 2D animation and tween-style deformation of illustrations. It’s used by Size Five games (the latest Ben & Dan game for example) and can produce output similar to the animation in Broken Age. 
 

I’ll be clear here that I’ve never used Spine and don’t know all the contexts in which it’s used, but it’s definitely a general purpose 2D animation tool. 

Sounds like they changed their mind then. Looking at Spine examples I believe you are absolutely right as the tool would not work well for pixel art.

 

I am quite happy Ron is now evolving his style instead of relying only on the old Pixel Art. Don’t take me wrong, I did enjoy Thimbleweed Park and I like Pixel Art but it is nice to see Ron trying something different.

Edited Monday at 01:22 PM by Blondebeard

[Rum Rogers 31]

As a matter of fact, all the Humongous games weren't pixel art. I think Ron made an exception with Thimbleweed Park as a nostalgic tribute, but his normal attitude is to embrace innovation imo.

[Blondebeard 26]

 

2 hours ago, Rum Rogers said:

As a matter of fact, all the Humongous games weren't pixel art. I think Ron made an exception with Thimbleweed Park as a nostalgic tribute, but his normal attitude is to embrace innovation imo.

That is true, but I was I referring to proper point and click adventure games. Humongous Entertainment games were made for kids

 

Ron also mentioned several times that if he were to make a new Monkey Island it would be a pixel art game. In addition the unannounced new game was originally intended to be a pixel art game (or so it seems based on the first job opening), hence my comment.

Edited Monday at 03:02 PM by Blondebeard