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I recently asked on Mastodon about favorite quests. I've collected some of the responses here. I apologize that I can't credit the individuals who posted, but you can find them there. I need to update grumpygamer so I can post rich Mastodon links. I you have a favorite, post it on Mastodon and @ me. Baldur's Gate 3 quest to safe Arabella on the...

I recently did an interview about speed running Monkey Island (I'll post a link when it's available). One of the topics was how speed runners dislike random events and the end of Monkey Island 2 has a lot of randomness around when LeChuck appears. I was asked how this worked and to be honest that was a long time ago and I don't remember every little...

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. At least with the later you be giving a high school student a job. I really hope the TV writers can get something meaningful from the strike. I'm skeptical only because big companies taking...

All the dialogs in Return to Monkey Island were done in a format called yack. These were created for Thimbleweed Park and (very) loosely based on Ink. During the Secret of Monkey Island and LeChucks Revenge, these were all hand-coded in SCUMM and a pain in the [REDACTED]. The goal is to free the writer from "programming" and focus just on the writing...

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. It pains me to have dropped the ball on my long running April 1st post and to have missed the one year RtMI announcement. Rest assured, grumpygamer.com will always remains April Fools' joke free.