The 320x200 looks great on my Full HD display!

Thanks very much, It has replaced my Red Alert 3 one featuring Gemma Atkinson. You have beaten Gemma Atkinson!

In my case,it replaced a picture of cute puppy sitting on the snow. True story.

I think i ll keep Deathspank for a week and then return to the puppy... i already miss him......

Hey, wait a sec...

who the heck said that I would have purchased your game? No really, I'm a pirate, I download the sh't outda Internet day and night, you can't possibly pretend I purchase something.....



Ok just joking, I'll lobby the Intertubes to purchase DeathSpank when it will come out, I'm looking forward to have it in digital and boxed form and the EGA wallpaper looks lovable :-P

Damn you're fast. I was just about to complain about the typos in the subtitle ;)

c'mon I want the CGA  or C64 version ;)

Oh, and you've just forgot the most important one, the glorious VGA 256 colours version. I've played all my Lucasfilm games in VGA mode so... Don't be stingy and give the VGA wallpaper too I'll surely made good use of it on my DOS partition.

Yep, I've got a DOS partition up and running on a P4 system :-P

Yoohoo new screenshots... ehh ... damn no screenshots. Can't you show at least one part of the source code you've already written and call it a screenshot? Or got any artwork finshed which is maybe not story relevant or even a deleted scene of the unfinished non-existing game?

Ohh and I noticed that the Thong of Justice got a sword symbol on it now. Do you think that a sword is really a positive meaning of justice? Or is it just a hint for a repetitive dialogue text like "Look at (t)his sword"?

I vote for a DeathSpank featurette, or a 3-hours long making-of on the YouTube :-P

You forgot the Text Adventure version, I'm converting it for you Ron.

You are in a room sitting in front of a computer, you see the desktop and some icons, there's a really cool wallpaper.

Command ?

Command?

>Get a life

(Thanks Ron!! I ve just been searching for wallpapers for my new HD computer, you have read my mind!).

Get a life?

For a moment I thought it was not a joke... ;)

Do not know how to 'Get a life'.

Command?

Thank you so very much, Mr Gilbert sir, I promise to be good all year up to christmas sir!

yeah and each one of us is going to buy the 50 copies at Stan's Second Hand Copyshop and maybe we get an insurance for free... or 30% discount for a funeral at Scabb Island on condition of at least 30 pirates attending (costumes allowed).

Holy crap, I installed zenWalk linux yesterday afternoon, and now look what you did, this wallpaper screwed up all the zen theme! xD

Nice job on the ASCII :)

Oh man, you really spoil us :)

Having EGA mode filter in the game as an easter egg will be awesomely nostalgic (as well as having a classic setup.exe for emulated adlib sound)

Easter eggs?!? Oh.... Monkey Island 1 as a bonus game would be nice :-P

I think it's pretty impossible but a man can dream on, he can dream on...

You are such a nice creator of games and provider of EGA desktop images, I will now have to buy 51 copies of the game. And that only due to the crisis of capitalism...

Dear Ron-
Please make Death Spank better than the Penny Arcade games...I mean the first one was awesome...at first but I really hate playing grindfests! NO GRINDFESTS!

-love Me

This made my day. :)

A game creator who accomodates the eccentric screen resolution of my iMac is a game creator I will buy a game from.

If I can buy the game for my iMac. And if the free downloadable demo of the game matches the insanely high expectations we have of this game creator.

My Deathspank wallpaper is better:

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e199/sharprm/death.gif

I'm in stitches! The hilarity.

Awesome!
I bet death would love that.

Total iPhone noob here (bought one a week ago): how do I setup the wallpaper? I keep tapping on the side of the screen but this damn piece of Appleware doesn't seem to understand what a right-click is......

You have to throw it as hard as you can on a wall to set the wallpaper.

I've tried it, it works! Thanks mate.

Ron you are a math geek.
Oh, better get back to my homework.

Agreeed. A true nerd.

I wouldn't be surprised if DeathSpank is gaming's biggest hoax.

But it's still fucking awesome!

By the way, did anyone notice the quote of the jerks under the man-in-the Thong of Justice? Or I should say demon? Is he a demon? is he, is he?

Funny quote any way :D
(that jerks with microscopics "computers" wont see hehe)

But my resolution is 1680x1050.
I feel offended, now I will only buy 25 copies.

Mine is 1920x1080 FullHD FTW!

Mine is 1920 x 1200 more pixels than even you! I have fuller HD :P

Mine is so long if I laid it out on the keyboard it would stretch from A-Z.

That's not very long. I hope for your sake that you're a bleeder, not a flesher.

Ron, I'm glad OpenDNS blocks these stupid ads on the top of your website.
Do you REALLY have to advertise as well? sigh

Don't mean to rag on you, but c'mon. They're just Google ads. Considering how long he's had this site (well before he started working with Hothead Games), it's quite understandable. I mean, there's no need to view advertisements as an assault on your senses. Unless you know, you were walking along, an suddenly, your eyes, ears, and nose stopped working, and instead a message played in your brain about McDonald's. And this happened every time you looked at Ron's blog. I don't like some of the sites he links, but it's his site. If he wants advertisements, fine. If he wants long flash intros, spinning gifs, and pictures of cat's dressed up like Guybrush and LeChuck, that's fine, it's his site. And your ad blocker WORKS. It's not like these were devious ads that snuck past the ad blocker. Sorry the internet has pandered to your every frickin' whim.
...
Wow, that turned into a full scale rant. Or at least some raving. And not the good kind with girls and techno music. Anyway, people don't like pointless complaints. At least, I don't like pointless complaints. Hopefully, Ron is okay with people ranting on his website.

He needs to feed his children

Oh man this wall paper would look SWEET on the motorola krave (motorola.com/krave). It looks like the perfect background for the touch screen display. Has anyone else seen it? Its LOADED with features. Ever since I started working with Motorola, I've become a huge fan of this thing.

Sure, it starts off a few discreet ads but it's a slippery slope. Before long he'll be doing product endorsement and adopting children from impoverished nations just to stay in the public eye.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e199/sharprm/grumpy.gif

I dare to ask... is Ron selling out to commerciality?
Nice drawing by the way!

I'd be afraid if I were Ron.

I am very curious to see what this game will be like. I am thinking it might incorporate some of the themes that were initially intended for that good and evil game that never got released. Is that a notion that someone else shares or is it just me?
I bet it's just me... Well, we shall see if there any three headed monkeys in this one ;)

Will DeathSpank's atmosphere be similar or different from Penny Arcade?

When the hell is coming out the game??
This is like fucking chinese democracy!

Except in China... democracy fucks you!

Will it run on linux?

It will even run on your microwave's display.

Thought you'd like it:

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/11/18/kenya.tanker.pirates/?iref=mpstoryview

ha. (notice the length of the ha.)

Will appear Guybrush as some kind of special guest?

Yes, with a cameo of LucasArts lawyers.

Its no the first time that you say that. Im starting to think that isnt a joke...
(I wish, right? :P)

I didn't say a thing.

Damn clones.
Sorry, my Liege... it wont happen again.
(Put Guybrush, put it put it :P)

Ron must be getting paranoid.

No.

Nice try, but your fake response (with equally fake name) was ALMOST authentic enough to pass, if not for the spelling of the word "authour".  A British Queen Language/Canadian Maple Leaf tongue this blog's "author" does not possess. Cheerio.

I think DeathSpank himself is a Guybrush of sorts: they both want to seem tough, but in reality are quite naive and comical.

Maybe Chuck the plant?

I agree, he's totally entitled to put ads on his page. If he's gonna write a blog interesting enough for all of us to read, then he should get a little residual income for it. I'll even support him by going to a couple ads.

You don't say! He's entitled to do that?

Yeah, almost like he's writing regularly, for our enjoyment, and like he's dependable on the ad income... computer scientists aren't poor people nowadays, you know? Ron used to own a plane for god's sake.

Ads are annoying, and Google ads even more so. Stop pestering the world with it.

Please use that big brain of yours before you let those fingers fall on the keyboard.

Wow someone's angry that someone wants to pay their hosting bills.

To everyone who's grumpy and annoyed with those f*cking google ads: try OpenDNS, it has the possibility to filter such content, preventing greedy website owners to profit with shitty ads. http://www.opendns.com/

Oh, and it's free.

Google ads are like the least noticeable ads on the interwebz. I rarely even notice them at all.

But to each his own and all that- I guess.

Right, who cares?

Where's the wallpaper for the Motorola Krave? I think a wallpaper would be great. It's got a full crystal clear touch screen display. (motorola.com/krave) It's definitely one of my top picks. I've been a fan of this thing ever since I started working with Motorola.

m goode must be a bot. Try googling: motorola krave fan "ever since i started working with motorola" and it'll come up with a number of similar posts. I really hate ads.

Anyway, does anyone want to buy a used bike for only $100?

I don't think he/she is a bot since he/she mentions the wallpaper.  He/she could be a third world child worker posting for pay, but if he/she is, they should be fired for posting a non-clickable link.

I think it could be a bot, choosing from a number of similar strings, then posting in forums with "wallpaper" somewhere in the topic.

Here's a test: m goode, are you a bot?

Yes.

I'm wrong about the bot. If you just search "m goode" and "motorola krave" there are hundreds of highly customized ads. I agree with Ron, it must be someone from a third world country being paid a small amount of money as part of a viral marketing campaign. Or just a REALLY sad motorola employee.

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/11/25/motorola-could-you-p.html

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e199/sharprm/motorla.gif

Hi from Spain! It´s very good that last image, sharprm, jejejeje (you can record this... jejejejeje)

Waiting for more news about 'Death Spank', Mr. "Rum" (spanish word for this grog-like drinking, of course, jeje).

Bye!

Hi!

I like your blog!  Do you want to trade links? send me email!

Kind Regards,

--
Paul
freemmogamer.com

Up until reading this I was thinking evolution would take care of idiots like this post's author.

It seems like DeathSpank is avaliable for the DS: http://speechproject.mixnmojo.com/stuff/shizz/IMG_0258.JPG

Hi Ron, are you going to release Deathspank on a digital medium such as the Steam Application from Valve?

P.S. Thanks for inventing SCUMM & the MI Games. Hello from Australia :)

God and/orEvolution Bless you!.Me too!

true true

read THIS!

Hmmm. Yes, quite indeed.

Ron Gilbert, you are a genius of the videogame era. What do u think about iPhone and ScummVM? After about 20 years, your games are still alive! This is awesome...

Did anyone else see the new Kohls commercial on tv?  Ron, its got MONKEY ISLAND for the background music!!!  Wtf???

Yeah, that's MI allright lol :)

Fuck me! Don't you guys have a life? I mean other than watching shitty commercials attentively and posting on gaming blogs?? Fuck me, again!

no thanks. no. no. no thanks.

Don't you have more to your life than shouting at us because we're all nerdy fanboys/girls?

It's Monkey Island!!! I just heard it on TV and turned toward my friend and we both were like "NO WAY!!!"

and here's proof:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOZPwAb-NgQ

Weird... so weird... the whole thing.

I was watching television and heard Lechuck's theme being used by Kohl's. I googled it and found that somebody else thought so too.

http://blkforge.blogspot.com/2008/11/yaarrrgh-there-be-kohls-christmas-dead.html

Great! And nice variety... even an ASCII version :-)

FREE wallpaper?!

(I like the 8bit one best :)

DEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAATHSPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANK!!!!!!!


+2 Ballsy

Akira would still be shit if it was made for an American audience. Maybe even more so.

Battle Royale would be sh*tter than akira if it was made for American audiences. Some people on imdb are imagining the script, this part was funny:

"Lucky bitch," Jennifer stared at Wendy. "I mean, who the f-ck gets an iPod as a weapon?"

"It has over 1000 songs," Becky added to Jennifer's misery.

Hmm, yes.

I'll buy 49 copies...

Long time no see!

Just to reach 100 comments...

Just for the fuck of it, I'll ruin your number and make it 101.

You know you have a serious problem with compulsive obsessive disorder when you have to write a post on a blog just to reach an even number... maybe you should get that checked out.

wow, FREE wallpaper! thats great