Seb369: Why
Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure is a Demonstration of a Bigger World
Description
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Delores: A Thimbleweed Park Mini-Adventure started out as a prototype for Ron Gilbert’s new point-and-click adventure game engine and grew into a fun little game. It is not a sequel to Thimbleweed Park and is probably missing all of the small bells and whistles that would make it a commercially viable game. This was a challenging game to make because we had to use almost exclusively “found art” from Thimbleweed Park to create all new puzzles. Also because we couldn’t go outside IRL. As a thank you to our fans, we are releasing it for free as something you can have fun with in these odd times. You don’t have to have played Thimbleweed Park to enjoy this mini-adventure. (But if you do enjoy it, why not check out Thimbleweed Park, hmm?)"
Originated as the mini-adventure and not a full game.
It was not a demo for
Thimbleweed Park. Demos are always created and released before, or sometimes very shortly (maybe up to a month) after, the games they mean to promote. They are literally
demonstrations of how the new or upcoming game works (and runs) so that one can judge whether or not to buy the full game.
Delores was developed and released
three years after Thimbleweed Park did. It may be free, it may not be "full length" (though it
is a full game), but it isn't a demo. Obviously you can include it in your list if you want, but if you're going to include all free titles, not just demos, then I
really don't see the purpose of the thread.
Seb369: and very clever link, but it might not include all future Demos. (could you keep it updated?)
I probably won't. You (or anyone else) could easily do so, though.
The search terms I used were as follows:
demo | teaser | sneak peek | free trial | alpha | prologue | first sin | thespian feast | yellow mask
The vertical bar symbol ( | ) can be used as a separator to allow adding separate searches into a single pool of results, rather than narrowing the search. (Obviously, I had to add 3 game-specific search terms to include demos that didn't have "demo" or any similar term in the title. Also, "sneak peak" currently has no search results -- the
Liberated demo is currently officially called a "free trial", its URL notwithstanding -- but I left the term in just in case some future demo uses that term.)
But really, just filtering for free games (without DLC) and manually scanning is less work. (Also, using multiple search terms like that completely breaks the sorting.)
Seb369: Alphabetization cannot ignore authors wish, like in the
The Occupation Demo or e.g.
Bleeding Moons Demo without "the".
...I really don't know what you think alphabetization is for, or why you think an author is making a statement about how they wish games to appear in ordered lists when they include an article. I guarantee you that the developer and publisher of
The Occupation (for example) didn't start the title with "The" because they wanted the game to appear in the T's in computer-alphabetized lists.