Thimbleweed Park benefits from lesson learned with The Cave

GRTV recently caught up with Ron Gilbert.

"The Cave was a very interesting project", he said, and "the thing that really surprised me is that I kind of expected people would play The Cave in the same way that people played Maniac Mansion was that they would choose their characters, they would play the game and they would win the game and then they would stop playing the game", revisiting it in a couple of months to play again. Instead "what they did was they chose their characters, they went through the game, they won the game, they immediately started the game over and chose three new characters and then played the game again", becoming bored of the repetitive nature due to playing it so soon after finishing. Moving forward from The Cave, Thimbleweed Park gas "different stories and they all have different endings to the stories but I think because of my experience with The Cave it's like we said "you know what, you need to be able to get all five endings in one playthrough of the game".