Grumpy Gamer

UPDATE: The Thimbleweed Park Dev Blog is now live.

After some delays with getting console certification, I’m happy to announce the release of Xbox, PlayStation and Switch (and Steam update) of Death by Scrolling on April 16.

Yet another year slips by and Grumpy Gamer remains 100% April Fools’ joke free.

I’ve been very critical of AI but have never really used it in depth and I feel that needs to change.

Here is a movie I made with my friend, Tom, back when I was 15 or so.

Interesting bug in Death by Scrolling.

I think 2026 is the year of Linux for me.

UPDATE: It is now live at: static-hugo-comments I’ve been cleaning up my comments script for hugo and am about ready to upload it to Github.

This one hits a little too close to home.

When I started using Hugu for static site generation I lost the ability to have comments and we all know now supportive the Internet can be, so why wouldn’t you have comments?

The following is a guest post by Robert Megone, the lead tester on Death by Scrolling.

October 28 on Steam I know you’re thinking the same thing I am: “About f-ing time!”

Who doesn’t enjoy a good history lesson?

I want to talk about three things that has fundamentally changed my dev-life.

Hi there!

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Have I mentioned that you should Wish List Death by Scrolling now, before you finish reading this?

I first created TesterTron3000 during Thimbleweed Park (hence the name).

It is with great pleasure, relief and waiting that we can finally announce Death By Scrolling, one of the most anticipated games of 2025.

I was having a discussion with someone on Mastodon about unit testing games and how it is a next to impossible job.

We just got Death By Scrolling running on the Switch.

If you haven’t read my previous post about Death By Scrolling way back in February, I suggest you do.

I miss the Kickstarter days of Thimbleweed Park where each week I would write a blog post about how things were going and we’d to a podcast.

When I build my game for testing, it’s a completely automated process from the command line.

Going on n+1 years, I proclaim grumpygamer.com to be 100% April Fools’ Day joke free.

First screen shot from my new game called Death by Scrolling.

I recently asked on Mastodon how a player would expect damage to be computed in an RPG.

I’m a big fan of Tim Cane’s YouTube channel.

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As the world spins into chaos, the one constant that brings stability into your world is knowing that grumpygamer.com will always remains April Fools’ joke free.

I recently asked on Mastodon about favorite quests.

I recently did an interview about speed running Monkey Island (I’ll post a link when it’s available).

I posted this chain on Mastodon, but am reposting it here… Getting AI to write your game dialog is about the same as getting some C- high school student to do it.

All the dialogs in Return to Monkey Island were done in a format called yack.

I got Covid from someone who went to GDC and today is the first day I’ve been well enough to make it to the computer.

** SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN’T PLAYED THE GAME YET *** Game design isn’t a destination, it’s a journey and this was one of the stops along the way.

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Compiled by the International House of Mojo

Jul 17, 2020 First official day is Monday but I’ve started setting up Slack and other web services.

Nine years ago I wrote a blog post titled “If I made another Monkey Island” and it feels like there are some things I need to say.

I felt bad about the April Fools’ joke so over the weekend I whipped up the game so no one was disappointed.

For 18 years the Grumpy Gamer blog has been April Fools’ day free because it’s a stupid tradition.

Well, it’s 2022 and everything is turning out exactly as I predicted back when I was 7.

That didn’t take long to fix and rebuild.

Placing the last piece.

Holiday repost!

We should be done in time for the upcoming gladiator ‘22 season.

After 7000 signatures, some progress.

Last month I finally got done signing over 7000 cards for the Limited Run Games physical release of Monkey Island.