The Video Game History Foundation is working to save the history of the making of video games.
On Oct 30th they are doing a live stream special event to help raise money and I’ll be a guest talking about the making of Monkey Island where you can ask me questions (as long as it’s not about the secret because after 30 years I’ve completely forgotten what it was).
Some marking people just don’t understand that people hate ads not because they aren’t targeted, they hate them because they are fucking ads.
The only time I’ve ever enjoyed ads are when I would read Byte magazine as a kid. That didn’t mean everywhere I went I wanted to see ads for 16K of memory being as low as $795.
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I went and looked through my old design notebooks and found these. I don’t know if they are related to Time Fly or not. Some of the dates I used for “present” are 1990? That would have put it right before or during Monkey Island 1. I wish I would have put dates on my old design docs.
Noah recently sent me a photo of an old Lucasfilm Games design doc of mine. I don’t know when I wrote this. After Maniac Mansion but probably before Monkey Island.
Dear Facebook:
I am not on Facebook. Anyone on Facebook claiming to be Ron Gilbert and a game developer is impersonating me. It’s frustrating because my friends think they are following me. They are not.
Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island.
Some notes about these.
These are the final source backups I made when the game left test and the gold masters were sent off.
They are labeled 1.1 because the game got bounced out of test during the final two weeks and so the version got bumped when it went back in.
For the younger readers out there: These are not USB devices and you can’t text your friends or watch TikTok videos on them. I know. Crazy.
UPDATE:
The day has come and gone and I didn’t get a happy birthday card from Disney with the Monkey Island IP tucked inside. There is always next year. Fingers crossed. Maybe it because I don’t subscribe to Disney+.
“The Muse visits during the act of creation, not before. Don’t wait for her. Start alone.” - Roger Ebert
One of my favorite quotes and one I keep needing to remind myself of. No matter how blocked or stuck I am, if I just force myself to start writing or designing, it’s not long before the ideas start flowing.