Maniac Mansion creators launch Kickstarter for spiritual successor Thimbleweed Park

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Ex-LucasArts legends Ron Gilbert and Gary Winnick have launched a Kickstarter for what they're calling "the true spiritual successor to Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island."
"Thimbleweed Park is a new game that cuts to the core of what made classic point & click adventure games so special, and done by the actual people who spawned the genre," the Kickstarter proclaimed. "It's deep, it's challenging, it's funny, it's everything you loved about adventure games."
It's easy to draw a connection between Thimbleweed Park and Double Fine's trendsetting Kickstarter-based point & click adventure Broken Age, but this is different in that it's actually trying to pretend that all of the advancements in technology and game design over the last 25 years never happened.
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