The Adventuress

The Grumpy Gamer on baseball pitchers

by Amber on January 3rd, 2007

After Ron Gilbert’s self imposed hiatus from blogging, the man with the Monkey Island plan has come back to instill in us all the heart and soul of grumpy gaming over at Grumpy Gamer. I was quite surprised to see that my RSS feed from the Grumpy Gamer website actually started lighting up almost every day about a week ago. Now, I like Mr. Gilbert, for he brought us the greatness of Monkey Island, Maniac Mansion, the SCUMM engine, Humongous Games, and Putt-Putt, which might look like a little kid’s game, but believe you me… It’s FUN. Especially the one where he goes to the zoo.

Isn’t he adorable?

As I read Ron’s entry from yesterday, he talks about the fact that Curt Schilling, a professional baseball player, is going to be creating a new gaming company called Green Monster Games. If you remember or have been reading for awhile, I posted on the exact same topic many moons ago. Now, Ron has a beef over the fact that Curt Schilling, who hasn’t done anything more than played video games, is going to be starting a gaming company. He’s kind of ticked that Schilling thinks that he can just throw money into this company and start developing games, even though he has no idea how difficult, time consuming or brain draining creating your own games can be.

He also kind of bitches about the other members of Schilling’s “dream team”, which is R.A. Salvatore, a wonderful fantasy writer and a spawn comic book artist by the name of Todd McFarlane. Gilbert has a hard time believing that this team has anything close to what it takes to make their own games. What do a writer and a comic book artist have to do with making games? Well, I know that R.A. Salvatore has had many games based off his books. I know that his very popular series, Icewind Dale, was made into a game [check out the wikipedia reference here]. Actually, it was made into 2 games, created by the now defunct Black Isle Games. The first one also had 2 expansion packs. So, it would seem that at least Salvatore has had SOME experience in the world of creating games.

Mmmm… fun rpgs.

Also, after much searching to see if R.A. Salvatore had ever been involved with creating a game, apparently he wrote one. It’s an RPG called Demon Stone, which was put out by Atari.

We’ll see, however, if the Grumpy Gamer is right about Green Monster Games and their lack of gaming talent. I know Schilling probably has a few pretty pennies to throw out there to some real developing talent, so hopefully with the great writing and art talent that is associated with Green Monster Games, we’ll see some really good RPGs.

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