Notices by Ron Gilbert (grumpygamer@mastodon.gamedev.place)

Stages of hearing about a new bug:

1) Denial - That’s not a real bug!
2) Anger - What are these testers thinking!
3) Bargain - I’m sure I fixed this before? Didn’t I?
4) Depression - I’m never going to fix all these bugs.
5) Acceptance - Fine! I’ll fix the bug and it turned out to be pretty simple.

I've been punching Nazis since 1989.

If you think video game shouldn't be political, then you haven't been paying attention while you play Battlefield.

Kind of frustrating that serval gaming outlets are calling the Oct 28 release of Death by Scrolling a "Windows PC" release while totally ignoring (forgetting) it also includes the native Mac and Linux. We worked hard to fully support all three platforms.

Death by Scrolling is coming October 28th.

https://www.grumpygamer.com/dbs_release_date/

I took a small vacation to the south island of NZ.

Make no mistake: Death by Scrolling is a biting commentary on runaway greed and exploitation by the rich.

@Meeea Yes, it was ported to Amiga and Atari ST later.

I guess Sept 2nd is as close to an anniversary we have for Money Island. I made the gold master on the 2nd but it probably didn't appear in stores until Oct. There was no "release date" back them. It annoys we when people say Money Island "released" today.

https://www.grumpygamer.com/monkey25/

Officially announcing Death By Scrolling, of course Mastodon followers have known about it for months. It's the privilege of being on Mastodon.

https://www.grumpygamer.com/deathbyscrolling5/

If you work for a company owned by an evil and horrible company, you work for an evil and horrible company. Stop deluding yourself.

Leisure Suit Larry solved the age verification problem years ago, the UK should just use that.

Snake in Brainfuck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn0yFkgNXqQ

I watched a YouTube video of someone using Vibe coding to make a game with AI. 45 mins in and it was running but spewing out error after error. The presenter finally went in an fixed the errors by hand requiring a lot of time and knowledge. I watched the whole thing like someone staring at a traffic accident.

I want to return to time where my biggest worry was how fast I was leveling my warlock.

American Oligarchs could be brought to their knees if everyone: a) Stopping using Facebook b) Stopped using X c) Stopped shopping on Amazon. d) Stopped using Google. Yeah, I'm not holding by breath.

The day you've been waiting for is finally here. The Death by Scrolling sekrit beta sign up. We will randomly select a handful of people every few days to join (as to not overwhelm the team). If you're interested in joining, do not reply to this post, fill out the form below.

https://forms.gle/hpSrXvM3tuPqrGb86

I had hoped to get a new playtest version of my game out for people to play, but then we decided to redo how procedural levels are made. It's much better but has delayed the playtest.

#pixelart

Serious questions someone should look into.
1) How much of the Enterprise warp core energy is using to train AI models?
2) Does the Enterprise have a privacy policy?
3) Does the Enterprise computer listen into conversation without the "computer" wake word?

I got a new attorney for my company dealings in NZ, he asked what the game was I was working on so I sent him a Steam key. He then played all weekend and sent me a list of bugs and feedback. I assume I wasn't billed $300 an hour for this.