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grumpygamer

@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place

Owner of Terrible Toybox, the designer/creator of Monkey Island, The Cave, Pajama Sam and the designer/co-creator of Maniac Mansion, DeathSpank and Thimbleweed Park. Co-designer of Return to Monkey Island.

All ideas are my own, but you'd be crazy not to agree.

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cdf1982, to random
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@grumpygamer The “+” in Return to Monkey Island+ for Apple Arcade means there's something more to the game? 🤞🤞

grumpygamer,
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@cdf1982 No, Apple just needs a different name.

grumpygamer, (edited ) to random
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When you first launch a game do you...

grumpygamer,
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@mrkite Or a handheld like a Switch.

Bobbins, to random
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Sorry. I have no context for the quote but in this month's Edge there's a quote from a videogame dude saying they hate achievements and what they've done to games and I don't think I've paid even the vaguest attention to them in years.

Quite enjoyed the novelty when they were invariably challenging the player to try playing in an unusual way but they don't impact the way I play a game even slightly anymore. I don't know how normal this is but I'd guess at "very"

grumpygamer,
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@psychicparrot42 @Bobbins I use achievements as an easy way to do analytics. There is a reason why RtMI as an achievement for each part.

simonschreibt, to gamedev
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MY GAME IS OUT! 🥳
It's made with love and for people with not much time but who like to finish a game. Get it now for 30% off!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2657850/Cozy_Space_Survivors/

Meme image "distracted boyfriend". A guy holds hand with his girlfriend but looks toward another woman which his girlfriend does not like. I put the Steam-Logo on top of the head of the girlfriend with the words "steam pile of shame" and my game logo on top of the head of the other women and below the words "finishing my short, cute, rewarding game."

grumpygamer,
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@simonschreibt I wish there was a Mac build.

grumpygamer,
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@simonschreibt I went and bought the Win build, I'll look forward to the Mac build. Been following the dev. Excited to play.

grumpygamer,
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@simonschreibt @someguyjg It is true. Gatekeeper is not run if the app installed via another app. None of my games are notarized. Although they are signed, but you might not even need that with Steam. They don't do anything special, it's a Mac thing.

grumpygamer,
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@simonschreibt @someguyjg Itch.io build worked fine, no gatekeeper warnings.

grumpygamer,
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@simonschreibt @someguyjg I have a M2.

grumpygamer,
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@simonschreibt @someguyjg I'll grab it today!

grumpygamer, (edited ) to pixelart
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Three new NPC quest givers.

grumpygamer, to random
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https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oregon-trail-is-changing-so-that-we-share-less-of-your-private-dysentery-information

lefticus, to random

I just learned about lazygit and decided to share it with you

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

grumpygamer,
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@lefticus lazygit is awesome!

grumpygamer, to random
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Watching @pagetable talk on the 6502 made me very teary-eyed nostalgic for making SCUMM on the C64. SCUMM was all developed and compiled on the LFL mainframes so I don’t have any backups, but I’d love to see that 6502 code again. There was a time I lived in 6502.

grumpygamer,
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@pascal @pagetable Lucasfilm, Ltd. It was used through out the company and it fit well is DOS three letter extensions.

grumpygamer,
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@telarium We rewrote everything in C using the 6502 as a guide. We had C functions with A, X and Y variables to make things quicker. 🙂

grumpygamer, to pixelart
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No matter how simple it is or what I think beforehand, it always takes me a day to implement a quest.

psychicparrot42, to random
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    grumpygamer,
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    @psychicparrot42 YES!

    grumpygamer, to random
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    After 6 months, I've had to resubscribe to Adobe PS. I work with too many people who send me PS files and there is no alternative that can open and save them reliability. It sad how many "helper" apps Adobe installs and how often they try to connect to the internet. I block them all, but it's scary. I have to unblock them every 30 days. Please do not suggest alternatives unless you know for a fact they load and save .psd files seamlessly. Do not suggest GIMP or I block you.

    grumpygamer,
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    @TylerHendrix They looks too much info. Text, shapes, etc. It's way to much friction to ask an artist.

    grumpygamer, to random
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    Fascinating talk (and light Sunday viewing) by @pagetable

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWqBmmPQP40

    grumpygamer, to pixelart
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    Someone keeps leaving the door to the cemetery crypt open and letting the skeletons out.

    grumpygamer,
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    @richard5mith No, final art.

    grumpygamer, to ai
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    My new game is using AI.

    badlogic, to random
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    People of gamedev.place, I have a question: have any of you used generative AI in game production? I.e. to generate (production) "art", power conversational skills of NPCs, etc.

    I can see how GenAI could be useful for blocking out things. I have yet to see a system that can generate content that doesn't require more work to get production ready than it would take to create manually.

    Stuff like Unity's Muse Animate, Scenario, or (FSM forbid) Kaedim confuse me.

    (InnoGames uses Scenario iirc)

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    grumpygamer,
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    @badlogic Using AI in your game is like hiring a 5th grader to do the work.

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