Notices by Ron Gilbert (grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place)

I would love to do a live stream of me programming my game, but I not a talkative person. My steam would be long periods of silence where I mutter "What the fuck is happening?" followed by busts of "Oh, I'm such an idiot".

I found this early draft of Monkey Island 2 ad copy...

#MonkeyIsland

Speed running The Secret of Monkey Island live on GamesDoneQuick. I'm dying to find out that the secret is!

https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick

I miss having to defrag drives. There was something therapeutic about watching it.

@dosnostalgic I would rather you didn't. Thanks for asking.

@dosnostalgic Humongous Entrainment had to license it from LucasArts. When a new person took over at LucasArts they reneged on their deal and sued me. I spent 2 years in court with them and finally won.

Protip: Treasure can’t always be found under an X.

#ReturnToMonkeyIsland #Twitter

Happy Father's Day. If you haven't played Return to Monkey Island, now would be a good day.

#fathersday #MonkeyIsland

I recently did an interview about speed running Monkey Island and one of the topics was how speed runners dislike the end Monkey Island 2 and how randomly LeChuck appears. So I tracked down the original SCUMM source to shed some light on how it works.

https://www.grumpygamer.com/speed_running_mi

I gave up over a 150,000 followers on Twitter to be on Mastodon full time. Yes, the engagement and reach is a lot less, but I'll build it back up and it will be worth it. I hate to see people run back to Twitter because of friends or careers or whatever. You know what changes that? Being on Mastodon and bring those people here. Musk is a horrible person, don't be one of his enablers.

When I first started at Lucasfilm, George shaved his beard so he could go watch the rerelease of StarWars and not be recognized. So the first time I met him he didn't have his iconic beard, I felt ripped off.