The original post:<p><a href="https://grumpygamer.com/april_fools_2022" rel="nofollow">https://grumpygamer.com/april_fools_2022</a><p>Ron is developer of the Monkey Island adventure games, while at lucas arts, now the IP is owned by Disney.<p>So he made another adventure game (similar but different) called "thimbleweed park". I played through. It was fun.
He made a development blog, while making it (it was a kickstarter).<p><a href="https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com" rel="nofollow">https://blog.thimbleweedpark.com</a><p>but now I have no idea if this new thing is real or not...
MI1 was one of the first adventure games I've played (real first one was Leisure Suit Larry 1) and I have very fond memories of it (and, of course MI2). Really awesome to see Ron Gilbert involved in this and hoping to get a huge dose of nostalgia out of it.
Hoping this would trigger a bigger franchise, I would really love to play an open world game of based on the Monkey Island universe (and humor).
The Curse of Monkey Island was my first contact with the series and I really enjoyed it at that time! I remember vividly the challenge, as a child, of playing it in English while only having the game’s guide on my native language (Portuguese).<p>Some parts of the translations where totally messed up, making it so hard to understand what I needed to do in the game that I stopped playing it for some years until I could figure out in English what was been said at some parts of the story.<p>Finishing it was some kind of a personal achievement for me when I was younger.
I'm excited, I played my first monkey island game on the ipad, and it was great!<p>I wonder what game engine they are using ?
I'd love to figure out how to make my own telltale or monkey island style game!
Funny how this was a April Fools announcement that only fooled people who thought it was fake!<p>I actually liked Curse of Monkey Island (MI 3) but am very excited for this one.<p>Also check out the Special Editions for MI 1 and 2 which were very good:
<a href="https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/6588/Monkey_Island_Collection/" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/6588/Monkey_Island_Col...</a>
this is so awesome. It was speculated that now that Disney owns this IP by their purchase of LucasArts that this would never see the light of day out of concerns for it competing with Pirates of the Caribbean IP.<p>Can’t wait to play it
Never got into Monkey Island series. I didn't find the dialogues particularly funny and puzzles were a bit too hard for me to figure out. I wish there was a sequel to Indiana Jones: Fate of Atlantis however. That one I still revisit every few years.