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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

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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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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Ron Gilbert (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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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place · 4d ago

It's sad that kids today don't know the joy of defragging a hard drive or degaussing a monitor. Maybe it's why games were better back then.

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Ron Gilbert (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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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Ron Gilbert (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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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place · 6d ago

I added a 3D physics engine to my Raylib cube game (soon to be GOTY) because I was bored. Once I add achievements it's ready for Steam.

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Ron Gilbert (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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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Ron Gilbert (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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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 06, 2026

Four hours to beat Maniac Mansion is ridiculous. When the game was released back in 1987 it a 40 hour game. https://www.polygon.com/agat-adventure-aptitude-test-pc-adventure-maniac-mansion-guide/

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Ron Gilbert (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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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Ron Gilbert (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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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 05, 2026

Please don't go to GDC. They charge a lot of money when the main benefit is socializing outside the conference and add to that the danger of traveling to the U.S and GDC must end. I have a lot of problems with GDC and how they con attendees and speakers with "it's good for your career" bullshit. I haven't gone in years and won't in the future.

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Ron Gilbert (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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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Ron Gilbert (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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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Mar 03, 2026

Math is hard.

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Ron Gilbert (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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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Ron Gilbert (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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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 25, 2026

It's only 9am and I feel like I've used all my IRL tokens.

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Ron Gilbert (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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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Ron Gilbert (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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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 12, 2026

I'm sure people were amazed when factories could make mass-produced furniture, but there are still people who enjoy making furniture by hand. This is how I feel about AI.

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Ron Gilbert (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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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Ron Gilbert (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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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 11, 2026

Since I just started using VSCode I turned on copilot. Or my god, this is horrible. It offers completions that about 80% right, but not 100% so I have to take my metal energy to see if they are right, time I just could have used to write it myself. I'll give it a day and then turn it off.

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Ron Gilbert (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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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Ron Gilbert (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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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 11, 2026

Running into a big limitation of Raylib. It only support very simple 3d animation. It can't do blending between animations (like walk -> run). Hopefully this is on their roadmap. I'm having a lot of fun with Raylib but I don't think I could release a game with it, even a small toy game, mostly due to the animation issue. I'm going to write a blog post about my experience with raylib.

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Ron Gilbert (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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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Ron Gilbert (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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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 10, 2026

The problem with ditching services like Discord or Google Docs or Dropbox isn't me, I'm happy to do it. It's everyones I need to work with. They aren't going to join my self-hosted service just to exchange work files or chat, etc. I've tried.

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Ron Gilbert (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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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Ron Gilbert (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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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Feb 07, 2026

Playing around with 3D and Raylib is really stressing my math knowledge. I wish I could go back in time and tell myself to pay more attention to math because it's going to be very useful to future you.

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Ron Gilbert (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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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Ron Gilbert (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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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 30, 2026

No thank you. Its all part of the plan. I'm sorry if your feelings got hurt.

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Ron Gilbert (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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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Ron Gilbert (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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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 29, 2026

"Mark Zuckerberg is all-in on AI as the new social media " -- He was also all in on VR being the future... how did that work out? He is the typical idiot who got lucky and now thinks it was his genius.

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Ron Gilbert (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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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Ron Gilbert (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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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 28, 2026

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115974812541701136 Hahahhahahha!

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Ron Gilbert (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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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Ron Gilbert (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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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jan 08, 2026

State of the art game dev tools in 1989:

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Ron Gilbert (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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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Ron Gilbert (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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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Dec 21, 2025

When Twitter collapsed, it was great to see the flood of friends, game devs and other come to Mastodon. Over the next 9 months a lot of them vanished to Threads, BlueSky or just left. I want to thank all people who are still on Mastodon and make it a wonderful place. You know who you are.

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Ron Gilbert (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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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Ron Gilbert (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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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Oct 23, 2025

Always entertaining speaker Dylan Beattie gives one of the best talks on AI I've listen to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9ZKxsPpRFk

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Ron Gilbert (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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Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)

Ron Gilbert (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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@grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place · Oct 18, 2025

I've been punching Nazis since 1989.

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