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Soundtrack: Thimbleweed Park — music that decided never to give a hint
The music Steve Kirk wrote for Thimbleweed Park does not help you solve anything. Step on a thing, push a thing, and it never tells you where the answer is. On a palette of theremin, lounge and prog, all he plays is the air of a town that functions. Black coffee in hand, I, Doremi, take apart why this music refuses to hint, and what you can steal from the 'pool' system he built for each location.
Inside Ron Gilbert's Philosophy — Never Waste the Player's Time
"What makes most games tough to play is that the puzzles are arbitrary and unconnected." Ron Gilbert wrote that in 1989 while designing Monkey Island. This is a study of the man widely regarded as the finest thinker on adventure-game puzzle design — his philosophy, his obsessions (the Puzzle Dependency Chart), his failures (Maniac Mansion), his dilemmas and his influences — read through his own essays, blog and interviews.
