Ron Gilbert, famed for his work on traditional adventures together with Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, Zak McKracken, and extra just lately Thimbleweed Park, is getting as much as one thing new and that appears to be fairly completely different from his previous work. It would not have a reputation but, nevertheless it’s described on Gilbert’s Horrible Toybox web site as “traditional Zelda meets Diablo meets Thimbleweed Park.”
Gilbert’s been posting about his new recreation on Mastodon (through Time Extension) since early 2024, nevertheless it’s gone largely unnoticed till only in the near past. In February, he shared a picture of a whiteboard rough-out of the opening space and quests, and a bit of little bit of stats work; from there, he is posted a couple of extra in-progress pictures, together with some transient ideas about his course of.
“I’ve been engaged on it for a 12 months or so,” Gilbert instructed PC Gamer. “Like a number of early prototypes, the sport has slowly morphed into what it’s now. I just lately employed an artist and that actually received issues shifting. I suck at artwork. It is the sport I all the time wished to play and I received bored with ready so I made a decision to construct it.”
He additionally introduced final week that Elissa Black, co-founder of Objects in Area studio Flat Earth Video games, has joined the undertaking as a quest designer. “This ups the possibility by 37% that I will end the sport earlier than turning into bored and disillusioned,” Gilbert wrote.
Regardless of that pessimistic word, Gilbert’s new recreation seems to be coming alongside effectively, though there is not any signal of a launch date at this level: The Horrible Toybox web site says the brand new recreation shall be out in late 2024, “or perhaps early 2025, that is gamedev in spite of everything.”