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So let's talk about the development of Thinbleweed Park. So on November 18th, 2014,

the Kickstarter goes live and the pitch is basically imagine opening a drawer and inside you find

a lost LucasArts Adventure game from 1987. Of course, this scope eventually expands far beyond

this. But if you look at the original Kickstarter video and assets, you can see their original intent

was to make it look like an EGA Lucasfilm games game, not not the final product they end up

releasing. They wanted to make it a much more old school experience. Yeah, the Kickstarter went live

on my birthday. Oh, that's right. That's right. Did you forget my birthday? No, no, no. I just,

I knew your birthday, but I didn't connect the two things in my head. So happy, happy 30th birthday,

Nina. Here's the new burger. Oh, you're right. You're better at math than I am. See, I forgot your

birthday, but you forgot how old you are. I always forget how old I am. Yeah, my 30th birthday. Oh my

God. What what a gift to you in the world. I know. Yeah. And if you look at me in the original

Kickstarter page has all the original assets as to like their proof of concept. Like here's what we

wanted to look like. Dolores looks different. Ransom looks different. The game is a much lower

quality in terms of graphics experience. They really wanted to reach back to the maniac mansion

days, which is why even in the final form, the characters still look like maniac mansion characters

with the very big heads in weird proportions. It's because they started with that and they didn't

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