Kotaku: Ron Gilbert

Gamers Donate $400,000 IN ONE DAY To See Their Heroes Make a New Game

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:15:22 EST

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Wow. Good job, internet! Despite the fact the project was announced less than 24 hours ago, Double Fine's Kickstarter campaign for a new graphic adventure has reached its goal of $400,000. More »

Concept Art Surfaces for Ron Gilbert's New Double Fine Game

Kirk Hamilton — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:00:00 EST

Ever since hearing that Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island maestro Ron Gilbert had moved to Double Fine Productions (The Brutal Legend and Psychonauts studio headed by his old partner in crime Tim Schafer), I've been dying to know what he's been working on. More »

Deathspank Spreads Its Wings

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 05:15:00 EDT

Deathspank is coming to PC later this month, and a little later, to the Mac as well. Oh, and it'll be joined by Shank! More »

Will We Get More Monkey Island From Monkey Island's Creators?

Brian Crecente — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:40:00 EDT

When news hit that Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer were working together again at the same studio, all thoughts seemed to shift to Monkey Island. More »

Humor Finds Hope in Indie Game Development

Brian Crecente — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:00:00 EDT

Humor in video games can be a brutally serious thing. More »

Tim Schafer Hires Ron Gilbert, Gets Funnier

Brian Crecente — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 11:00:00 EDT

Video gaming's best known funny men are back together again under one roof, having a "hell of a lot of fun," making jokes and, perhaps, even developing a game or two. More »

DeathSpank Review: Best Game Involving A Purple Thong

Stephen Totilo — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:00:00 EDT

If you like laughing and you like loot, if you can catch a Monkey Island reference and know why purple text is a positive thing, then DeathSpank is your game. Plus, it is gorgeous. More »

It's Better To Deathspank With A Friend

Mike Fahey — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 18:00:00 EDT

What could be more lovely than an afternoon spent frolicking with unicorns in the wilderness with Deathspank and his best pal Sparkles? More »

DeathSpank, Like Diablo With A Sense Of Humor, Hits July

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 20:00:00 EDT

Are you perfectly fine with rainbows in your Diablo III? Then you might like the gameplay and lighthearted approach of Hothead Games' action-RPG DeathSpank, which marries deep role-playing with broad humor in just a couple of weeks. More »

Creator Commentary Comes To Monkey Island 2 Remake

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 03:30:00 EDT

The upcoming release of a Monkey Island 2 special edition is special not for the revamped graphics, but for the inclusion of a commentary track featuring the original game's creators: Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer, and Dave Grossman. More »

Monkey Island: The Deleted Scenes

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:30:00 EST

Movies have deleted scenes, everyone knows that. But it's rare we see deleted game scenes, because they're normally just 1s and 0s, and if they're not in the final game, we don't see them. Unless we're talking Monkey Island! More »

Ron Gilbert On DeathSpank: Why Play Two Games?

Mike Fahey — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 11:30:00 EDT

Monkey Island and Maniac Mansion creator Ron Gilbert was at PAX 2009 to talk about his upcoming action RPG meets adventure game DeathSpank, discussing melding the two genres and accusing me of witchcraft. More »

Scenes And Screens From Ron Gilbert's DeathSpank

Mike Fahey — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:30:00 EDT

Behold screenshots and a trailer for Ron Gilbert's DeathSpank, due out 2010-ish for too many platforms to mention. More »

Scene From PAX: Ron Gilbert Inspires

Stephen Totilo — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:20:46 EDT

Wil Wheaton was a hero. Online porn was primitive. His parents got him a computer when he was a kid that had 8K of RAM. Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island co-creator Ron Gilbert is on stage at PAX reminiscing. More »

A Good Look At Monkey Island Creator's New Game

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:30:00 EDT

Ron Gilbert's latest game, Deathspank, isn't new. We've know about it for ages. But all this info and screenshots, well, they're very new. More »

Monkey Island's Ron Gilbert to Keynote PAX

Brian Crecente — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:00:00 EDT

Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert plans to keynote the sixth annual Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle in September, the organizers said today. More »

The Making Of Monkey Island

Luke Plunkett — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:30:00 EDT

With both a new Monkey Island and a remake of the original on the way, people once again have the classic series on the brain. What better time, then, to catch up on where it all started! More »

Deathspank Teaser Trailers

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:00:00 EDT

In January, Ron Gilbert announced that he'd be teaming with Hothead (Penny Arcade game) to develop an episodic RPGish, adventurey series. It was called Deathspank, and was described then as "Monkey Island meets Diablo". We're still a little flushed after seeing a sentence like that. Anyway, since that announcement, we'd heard precious squat (SQUAT!) about the game until these teasers popped up. There's not much going on, but at least it shows the whole thing's still alive. And that more games need a Thong Of Justice. More »

Ron Gilbert on Episodic Gaming and the Film Industry

Maggie Greene — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 16:00:00 EDT

Ron Gilbert is probably best known for his work at LucasArts, where he worked on such favorites as Maniac Mansion, The Secret of Monkey Island, and Day Of The Tentacle. Most recently, he's worked on Penny Arcade Adventures and has a forthcoming title called DeathSpank. Gamasutra sat down for a somewhat lengthy interview, discussing the episodic model, working within the current industry framework, and moving outside the current studio framework into a more 'Hollywood' type model. On this aspect (shifting to a more 'team' based approach where people come together to work on specific projects), he's got this to say: More »

Ron Gilbert Joins Hothead For DeathSpank

Mike Fahey — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:40:41 EST

Maniac Mansion and Monkey Island veteran Ron Gilbert has signed on as Creative Director at Vancouver-based Hothead Games, with whom he will finally publish his long-awaited episodic RPG adventure, DeathSpank, which is described as "Monkey Island meets Diablo". If it indeed winds up as a combination of those two I may never need another video game or the love of a good woman again. Gilbert got to know the folks at Hothead while helping out on Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, and I suppose they just couldn't get him to leave afterwards.

Speaking from his secret game design cave, Ron Gilbert said, "I've spent over four years trying to find the right publisher for this strange little game. Now that I've done it, you just know that somewhere four horsemen are saddling up."

At least it'll be a humorous sort of apocalypse. More »

Ron Gilbert on 300's Game Comparison

Brian Crecente — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 12:06:21 EDT

In the wake of Variety calling out movie critics for likening the movie 300 to a video game in a bad way comes this short piece by the Grumpy Gamer using the movie to insult video games. More »

Monkey Island Music Day

egauger — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:20:05 EDT

Joystiq announced Monkey Island Music Day, which of course put an obligatory warmth in me scurvy little heart. More »

Ron Gilbert Vaguely Defines Next Game

brownlee — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 13:40:21 EDT

Ron Gilbert — the funny, crazy, zany guy behind the Monkey Island games — has clued Computer and Video Games in with details concerning his next game. Unfortunately, those forthcoming details are pretty vague and confused at best. More »

Ron Gilbert Hates It All So Very Much

egauger — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 21:45:24 EDT

My very favorite grump is on blast at Gamasutra, grumbling about topics ranging from how there are no decent stories in games anymore, to how he is trying to remedy this and being thwarted at every turn by stonefaced game company executives. Full of piss, vinegar, and baseball metaphors, Gilbert gives us what-for: More »

Ron Gilbert Monkey-Grumpy About Pirates of the Caribbean Sequel

egauger — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:20:43 EDT

Ron Gilbert is the creator of adventure game masterpiece Monkey Island, and an irritable godfather of a generation of PC gamers, a generation that embraces yours truly. A generation that, when confronted with the Pirates of the Caribbean trailers, cheered raucously because we were finally getting our Monkey Island movie. More »