Grumpy Gamer

I kid you not.

Fifteen years of Grumpy Gamer being 100% April Fools’ joke free.

I buy a lot of games.

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What did you like about Darkest Dungeon?

The dog one is heart breaking.

“ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS, EXCEPT EUROPA” - Arthur C.

This always annoyed me.

While I am slightly disappointed that SCUMM didn’t make the list of Technology, Ranked, I am perplexed how the screw gets #99 while many of the inventions from #98-#1 couldn’t been made without the screw, so it seems like the screw should be higher on the…

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Interesting tidbit.

Ten Great Adventure-Game Puzzles P.S.

It’s missing the pulley in the middle.

I think the game I’m looking forward to the most next year is Classic World of Warcraft.

Doing testing on closures.

…in my compiler makes my head hurt. i = 1 ?

I have a scary Halloween story to tell you… I was running into a bug in my new compiler where large ints where loosing precision.

Much like the Vulcan Pon farr, every seven years I am compelled to write a compiler.

I’m looking for a good bug database for games and it’s been a struggle.

I have a (paid) art job opening for my side project.

This is a good video.

This is a great four-part series about Roguelikes from the GOLDEN KRONE HOTEL website.

Last month (maybe longer) I wrote about one of the top three production mistakes we made in Thimbleweed Park.

A Freddi Fish image mashup I thought I’d never see

Grumpy Gamer announces that Alex Jones has been banned from this site.

…the cosmos is littered with time travelers adrift between the stars.

I’m quite enjoying Octopath Traveler.

All I want to do is pass a #define on the command line to msbuild.

Yeah, but does it run GraphicsBASIC

I have a Git question.

Not sure where the phrase “penny wise and pound foolish” comes from.

Damn-it!

Please don’t put animated GIFs of a movie right above the movie on your webpage… it’s fucking annoying.

Dear Microsoft: Don’t fuck up GitHub the same way you fucked up Skype.

I’m going to spend a week in Norway and then stop off in Iceland for 3 days.

It’s my Battle Royale game for introverts.

I can’t help but wonder if how to keep indie dev from not working themselves to death has more to do with learning how to budget, scope and schedule.

Well… 14 years in a row, the Grumpy Gamer blog has been 100% April Fools’ day free.

Thimbleweed Park’s one-year anniversary is this Friday, and to help commiserate (I mean celebrate) the game is going to be 50% off for one day on all platforms.

My new favorite YouTube Channel…

Does anyone out there have any good examples of top-down action/RPG games that have nice feeling combat?

I got some new D&D dice.

In Star Trek, people eat food on the holodeck.

A little something I’ve been messing around with.