Game Daily

MAY 9, 2023

Narrative games festival LudoNarraCon 2023 concluded yesterday. Once again, the event – organized annually by indie label Fellow Traveller – brought together panels and talks, as well as presentations and sales of games that focus on storytelling. “Maniac Mansion was a narrative game,” says Gilbert.

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Grumpy Gamer

APRIL 13, 2013

NOTE: Now that Return To Monkey Island has been announced it's important to note that a lot of my views (but not all) in this post have changed. One - I am not making another Monkey Island. I have no plans to make another Monkey Island. I am not formulating plans to make another Monkey Island.

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Game Designing

APRIL 16, 2022

When the Nintendo GameBoy was first released in 1989, it was a revolution in personal gaming. Other handheld game systems came out around the same time, including Sega Game Gear, NEC TurboExpress, and the Atari Lynx. Fortunately, the DS was backward-compatible, meaning it could play GBA games just fine. That’s okay.

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Grumpy Gamer

MAY 12, 2004

I wrote this back in 1989 while I was designing Monkey Island. A lot has changed for Adventure Games as well, but unfortunately not in the right direction. Adventure Games are officially dead. I learned a lot from Monkey Island 1 and 2, plus countless kids Adventure Games at Humongous Entertainment.

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