Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 31, 2017
A review I read before buying Roll for the Galaxy said it was much simpler than Race for the Galaxy. That’s not true at all, but I do think the dice and other elements make it a better game than Race for the Galaxy.
Brand Game Development
DECEMBER 26, 2017
Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the eighth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This suite is based on the Five Levels of Communication through Game Development , my own personal board game development philosophy.
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Mircosoft Game Dev
DECEMBER 21, 2017
Edit 22.12.2017: Windows binaries (both the editor binaries and the export templates) have been replaced by versions without OpenMP support, the latter forcing the installation of the MS Visual C++ Redistributable 2017 to get the OpenMP DLL. If you downloaded export templates before 22.12.2017 at 23:59 UTC, we advise to download them anew to get the proper portable Windows binaries.
Sirlin
DECEMBER 31, 2017
I was thinking about how we'll handle cross-platform play in Fantasy Strike. The plan is that you'll add a friend to your in-game friends list, even if they are on another platform, then you can click on them there to directly challenge them. I was looking into how Street Fighter 5 handles your in-game friends list. They went a different way with it.
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 31, 2017
As a little kid growing up in the 1970s, 2018 seems like an unimaginable future. Moon bases and rocket ships. It didn’t quite turn out the way 8-year-old Ronnie imagined. Some ways better. Some ways worse. I’m not sure my life turned out the way I imagined. Some ways better some. Some ways worse. 2017 was the year Thimbleweed Park came out.
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 30, 2017
Whenever I sign up for a website and it asks me for my birthday, I always enter Jan 1, 1901. This cause two things to happen. 1) On New Years day I get a stream of happy birthday wishes from websites I rarely visit. 2) Chris Remo always wishes me a happy 116th birthday.
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 28, 2017
I released a game on eight platforms and didn't die in the process. Isn't that all we can ask for?
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Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 27, 2017
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 27, 2017
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 26, 2017
You’d think RSS feeds would be simple, but they are anything but. One of the most frustrating things with online readers is they are often cached, so it takes hours to tell if your feed is being digested or not. Feedly stop reading my RSS and I don’t know why.
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 26, 2017
Part of quitting Twitter necessitate rebuilding Grumpy Gamer. The Thimbleweed Park dev blog was based on the Grumpy Gamer blog code, but I’d made a lot of improvements that I loathed losing, but even the Thimbleweed Park blog code was starting to feel old and worn. It was time to start over, and by start over, I mean completely start over. I crave change.
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 25, 2017
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 23, 2017
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 22, 2017
Clayton and I did this back in Dec of 2004. Interesting how much hasn’t changed. I might have more “male” spouses now, something about loot crates, and maybe change the last verse to be more “indie”, but it’s shockingly accurate 13 years later. The Twelve Days of Crunch Time A poem by Gilbert and Kauzlaric On the twelfth day of crunch time, My project gave to me… Twelve cents in royalties, Eleven kiss-ass previews, Ten nerdy testers, Nine patent lawsuit
Brand Game Development
DECEMBER 22, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? Click here. In my quest to test Highways & Byways 100 more times before I release it to reviewers, I’ve found myself with relatively little to say. That’s a good thing!
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 21, 2017
You can find me on Mastodon and follow me there, if you want. It’s 100% optional (at least until the GOP 2018 tax bill is in effect). I’ll give it a few weeks, but I’m not sure it really solves my issues with social media. I guess it depends on how many people use it. Not enough and it’s boring and pointless. Too many and it’s Twitter all over again.
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 20, 2017
Today is the winter solstice , my favorite day of the year. It will be the darkest day of the year and that’s OK by me. I’m a winter person, not a summer person. I like the cold and I like the dark. It feels cozy. The summers in Seattle can be light until 9:30pm, in the winters, it’s getting dark at 4:30pm. I also like Christmas, not for the joy of giving, peace on Earth and all that rubbish, but because of Christmas lights and they work best at night.
Brand Game Development
DECEMBER 18, 2017
Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the seventh of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This suite is based on the Five Levels of Communication through Game Development , my own personal board game development philosophy.
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 16, 2017
Went on vacation a few weeks ago. Everyone loves vacation photos, so I thought I'd share mine.
Brand Game Development
DECEMBER 15, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? Click here. In the frozen Canadian arctic of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, there is a famous road known as the Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road. It’s a long haul road for ice truckers that’s over 300 miles long and most of it is built on frozen lakes.
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 14, 2017
NOTE : This was 2 blug revisions ago… Welcome to the all new Grumpy Gamer Blog! It has all of the content from the old blog minus the stupid stuff. I removed a lot of the old posts teasing the lead up to my new games like The Cave, Scurvy and, of course, Thimbleweed Park. They were just noise. Now that Thimbleweed Park is done and I won’t be blogging there as much, it felt like I needed a new outlet to gripe and complain.
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Be skeptical of the advice of successful people, they suffer from deep survivor bias. Hundreds of other people did exactly what they did and failed. Chances are their success has more to do with luck than the advice they are given you.
Brand Game Development
DECEMBER 11, 2017
Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the sixth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This suite is based on the Five Levels of Communication through Game Development , my own personal board game development philosophy.
Brand Game Development
DECEMBER 8, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? Click here. Highways & Byways is basically complete. I’ve started the final 100 play-tests. This is a process I follow to ensure a game’s quality. This method may not be appropriate for every developer, every team, or every game, but it is one I like.
Brand Game Development
DECEMBER 4, 2017
Board game development is a very individual process. Every single developer has different methods for creating their games. This article is the fifth of a 19-part suite on board game design and development. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators. This suite is based on the Five Levels of Communication through Game Development , my own personal board game development philosophy.
Brand Game Development
DECEMBER 1, 2017
Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? Click here. I’ve been making games for about 2 1/2 years now, and a lot of things in my life have clicked because of the ways of thinking I have adopted by making and playing games.
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 31, 2017
Whenever I sign up for a website and it asks me for my birthday, I always enter Jan 1, 1901. This cause two things to happen. 1) On New Years day I get a stream of happy birthday wishes from websites I rarely visit. 2) Chris Remo always wishes me a happy 116th birthday.
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 27, 2017
You'd think RSS feeds would be simple, but they are anything but. One of the most frustrating things with online readers is they are often cached, so it takes hours to tell if your feed is being digested or not. Feedly stop reading my RSS and I don't know why.
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 27, 2017
Part of quitting Twitter necessitate rebuilding Grumpy Gamer. The Thimbleweed Park dev blog was based on the Grumpy Gamer blog code, but I'd made a lot of improvements that I loathed losing, but even the Thimbleweed Park blog code was starting to feel old and worn. It was time to start over, and by start over, I mean completely start over. I crave change.
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 23, 2017
Clayton and I did this back in Dec of 2004. Interesting how much hasn't changed. I might have more "male" spouses now, something about loot crates, and maybe change the last verse to be more "indie", but it's shockingly accurate 13 years later. The Twelve Days of Crunch Time. A poem by Gilbert and Kauzlaric. On the twelfth day of crunch time, My project gave to me.
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 22, 2017
You can find me on Mastodon and follow me there, if you want. It's 100% optional (at least until the GOP 2018 tax bill is in effect). I'll give it a few weeks, but I'm not sure it really solves my issues with social media. I guess it depends on how many people use it. Not enough and it's boring and pointless. Too many and it's Twitter all over again.
Grumpy Gamer
DECEMBER 21, 2017
Today is the winter solstice , my favorite day of the year. It will be the darkest day of the year and that's OK by me. I'm a winter person, not a summer person. I like the cold and I like the dark. It feels cozy. The summers in Seattle can be light until 9:30pm, in the winters, it's getting dark at 4:30pm. I also like Christmas, not for the joy of giving, peace on Earth and all that rubbish, but because of Christmas lights and they work best at night.
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