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Ye Olde Grumpy Gamer Blog. Est. 2004

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Jan 2025
12 Days of Crunch Time Mention
Hugo

Apr 2024
April Fools' 2024

Nov 2023
Quest Feedback

Jun 2023
Speed running Monkey Island

May 2023
Unions

Apr 2023
Loom
April Fools' 2023

Nov 2022
Early Return to Monkey Island Puzzle Dependency Chart

Sep 2022
Oh yeah... Return To Monkey Island is out
The Monkey Island Monday Hit Parade

Jun 2022
Return to Monkey Island Trailer

May 2022
Return to Monkey Island Dev Diary
When I Made Another Monkey Island

Apr 2022
Return to Monkey Island
April Fools' 2022

Jan 2022
2021

Dec 2021
Lego Report 7
Lego Report 8
The Twelve Days of Crunch Time Again
Lego Report 6
Lego Report 5

Nov 2021
7000 Signatures later...
How to make your own game engine
I'm tired of dystopia fiction
Twitter

Oct 2021
Happy Birthday ScummVM
Favorite Puzzle

Jun 2021
Commodore Assemblers
Guild of Dungeoneering

May 2021
Judith Lucero

Apr 2021
Apple and Privacy
April Fools' 2021

Mar 2021
Today's Sudoku

Feb 2021
Apple?

Jan 2021
Good Riddance
Lego Report 4
Monkey Island with Various Sound Cards

Dec 2020
Lego Report 3
Lego Report 2
Lego Report 1
Lego
Pop Quiz #1
AppVeyor CI
Denied
Polls

Nov 2020
Guybrush Fact vs Fiction
MI Game History Stream
Cloud compiling with Azure
Calm

Oct 2020
Current Status
Monkey Island Game History

Sep 2020
Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day
Ads
Delores Open Alpha/Beta Testing...
Time Fly docs?
Time Fly
Dear Facebook
30 years ago today...

Aug 2020
This is disappointing
The Muse
JSON
Raspberry Pi Update
Raspberry Pi

Jul 2020
Linux Password Manager
Linux First Post
Linux
Masks
View out my window
Red Shirt
The future is a shitty place...
What the hell happened to Boing Boing?

Jun 2020
Static website converter?
Bad Apples
Delores GOG
Thimbleweed Park Forums are down

May 2020
WTF!
Delores Source Code Released!
historyofpants.com
Python
Delores Podcast
Delores AMA podcast
Right-click to Skip Dialog
Linux laptop
What I did during the Pandemic
Sprites-as-a-Service

Apr 2020
Nerd Alert
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April Fools' 2020

Mar 2020
Guilty Pleasures
Lock-down in Seattle
The CORVID-19 edition

Feb 2020
Camera Code

Jan 2020
A Simple Commodore 64 Game in C++
MISSING
Bartlow's Dread Machine
Purple Meteor
Disassembling Link's Awakening
False Positives?
My guild RIP
Verbs and Adventure Games
Wanted: writer
Warning!
Current Status

Dec 2019
2019 Year in Review
Current Status
Current Status
Current Status
Current Status

Aug 2019
Forager
People I Wish Weren't Dead
Not Okay!

Jul 2019
MISSING
Not Talk Like a Pirate
FU Dropbox
My new favorite YouTube channel
Rogueli[kt]es

Jun 2019
Right after Maniac Mansion shipped
MISSING
Stop on by
Quit Twitter

May 2019
WoW 2
Game Postponed Indefinitely

Apr 2019
Monkey Island TV Show
April Fools' 2019

Mar 2019
WTF MS
For your listening pleasure...

Feb 2019
Dead Cells
Fuck Subscription Software
Darkest Dungeon
Current Status

Jan 2019
MISSING
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Finally!
Technology, Ranked
What Game Dev Feels Like

Dec 2018
Goodbye 2018. Hello 2019.
Thimbleweed Park Sales
Ten Great Adventure-Game Puzzles
Where's the Pulley?

Nov 2018
World of Warcraft
What do you think?

Oct 2018
Unit testing ternary operators...
Casting Values
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Bug Database

Sep 2018
Job Opening
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Aug 2018
Things I Hate About Roguelikes (via)
CI
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Jul 2018
Octopath
Why are you making this so hard Microsoft?
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Git Question

Jun 2018
Penny Wise and Pound Foolish
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May 2018
Current Status
New Game Idea
Budget, Scope and Schedule

Apr 2018
Current Status
April Fools' 2018

Mar 2018
Thimbleversary
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Combat
Time to get Serious
Food on the Holodeck
A Little Something
Three Short Arguments
Ransome *Unbeeped*

Feb 2018
Haunted by the Cave
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Don't fall down
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Happy Valentine's Day
Thimbleweed Park Vinyl
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BBEdit
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Jan 2018
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Statistics Question
Thimbleweed Park sales by store
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Quentin Tarantino's Star Trek gets its first trailer
Friday Questions #3
A better Steam
Favorite Game Dev Blogs?
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Links of the Week
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Friday Questions #2
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Game Informer 2017 Adventure Game Of The Year Awards
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Favorite Programming Blogs?
Escape the room in a box
Friday Questions
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Unit Testing Games
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Waldschattenspiel
2018 Goals
Roll for the Galaxy

Dec 2017
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Golf Story
Luck
My 2017 Year in Review
Giving up on MongoDB
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The Twelve Days of Crunch Time
Mastodon
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Vacation 2017
Grumpy Gamer v3
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Sep 2015
Happy Birthday Monkey Island

Feb 2015
Thimbleweed Park Dev Blog

Jan 2015
I Was A Teengage Lobot

Dec 2014
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Oct 2014
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Aug 2014
My Understanding Of Charts
Puzzle Dependency Charts
SCUMM Notes From The C64
2D Point and Click Engine Recommendations

Jul 2014
Best. Ending. Ever.
Maniac Mansion Design Doc
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Maniac Mansion Design Notes
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Ten Years Running!
Booty From My Seattle Storage Space!
Monkey Bucks

Apr 2014
Who Are These Pirates?
What is an indie developer?
Monkey Island Design Notebook Scribblings

Mar 2014
Even More Monkey Island Design Scribbles.
More Tales From The Monkey Island Design Notebook
Monkey Island Design Notebook #1

Dec 2013
My 2013 year in review

Jun 2013
Scurvy Scallywags iOS Reviews Are In
Got Scurvy?

May 2013
My Favorite Authors
Scurvy Scallywags Is Almost Here!

Apr 2013
More Scurvy Scallywags
Just To Clarify Point Twelve...
If I Made Another Monkey Island
ASM
Goodbye Lucasfilm Games

Mar 2013
Scurvy Scallywags
Deep Inside The Cave - Part 2
Deep Inside The Cave - Part 1
A Complete Map Of The Cave And Other News...

Feb 2013
Progress Bar Porn

Jan 2013
The Cave Is Out! The Cave Is Out! The Cave Is Out!
The Cave Is Coming! The Cave Is Coming!
About

Dec 2012
More The Cave Art

Nov 2012
The New The Cave The Trailer

Jul 2012
The Big Big Castle!

Jun 2012
The Color of Money

May 2012
The Cave

Feb 2012
What My Father Meant To Me
More Concept Art

Jan 2012
What is an Adventure Game?

Nov 2011
First Concept Art

Oct 2011
Meeting Steve Jobs

Jul 2011
The Vertical Slice

Jan 2011
The Making of Maniac Mansion

Nov 2010
Monkey Island 2 Bug Report

May 2010
Game Designer+Artist or Game Designer+Programmer

Aug 2009
The Tale of the Scurvy Raider

May 2009
Stuff and Things and Monkey Island

Oct 2008
Studs Terkel Passes Away

Apr 2007
20 Years of SCUMM

Sep 2005
Gilligan Is On The Roof

May 2005
Failing at your Entertainment

Feb 2005
World! Of! Warcraft!

Dec 2004
The Twelve Days of Crunch Time

Oct 2004
The Economics of a 2D Adventure Today

Sep 2004
On Stranger Tides

May 2004
Why Adventure Games Suck