Daily scene from “The Curse of Monkey Island” (PC): Demo #MonkeyIsland
September 28, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Daily scene from “The Curse of Monkey Island” (PC): Demo #MonkeyIsland
You are a man of culture and I hope that you figure out how to play our wonderful musical-themed Lucasarts game.
September 28, 2026 at 1:58 AM
You are a man of culture and I hope that you figure out how to play our wonderful musical-themed Lucasarts game.
Since I'm already on a roll and haven't recorded videos in so long, here's another one
youtu.be/oZ1sZiUyGrg
#IndieGameDev #Retro #Soviet #BK0011M #SCUMM #ColdWar #PDP-11 #MonkeyIsland #MisterFPGA
youtu.be/oZ1sZiUyGrg
#IndieGameDev #Retro #Soviet #BK0011M #SCUMM #ColdWar #PDP-11 #MonkeyIsland #MisterFPGA
Script Creation Utility for Manic Marxists #bk0011m
YouTube video by Mark “Happy-Ferret” Bauermeister
youtu.be
September 27, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Since I'm already on a roll and haven't recorded videos in so long, here's another one
youtu.be/oZ1sZiUyGrg
#IndieGameDev #Retro #Soviet #BK0011M #SCUMM #ColdWar #PDP-11 #MonkeyIsland #MisterFPGA
youtu.be/oZ1sZiUyGrg
#IndieGameDev #Retro #Soviet #BK0011M #SCUMM #ColdWar #PDP-11 #MonkeyIsland #MisterFPGA
Daily scene from “Tales of Monkey Island” (PC): Episode III — Lair of the Leviathan #MonkeyIsland
September 27, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Daily scene from “Tales of Monkey Island” (PC): Episode III — Lair of the Leviathan #MonkeyIsland
Calling on all interested parties:
I'd like to code small demo adventure games to show off my SCUMM interpreter on NES and Sega Master System
Looking for "idea guys" and artists who know how to work within the limitations of either system.
#IndieGameDev #Retro #Point&Click
I'd like to code small demo adventure games to show off my SCUMM interpreter on NES and Sega Master System
Looking for "idea guys" and artists who know how to work within the limitations of either system.
#IndieGameDev #Retro #Point&Click
September 27, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Calling on all interested parties:
I'd like to code small demo adventure games to show off my SCUMM interpreter on NES and Sega Master System
Looking for "idea guys" and artists who know how to work within the limitations of either system.
#IndieGameDev #Retro #Point&Click
I'd like to code small demo adventure games to show off my SCUMM interpreter on NES and Sega Master System
Looking for "idea guys" and artists who know how to work within the limitations of either system.
#IndieGameDev #Retro #Point&Click
like with my recent Metal Gear, SCUMM, and Metroid series playthroughs, I've been going through the Zelda games chronologically and writing up my thoughts on my backloggd. Here's some thoughts on Majora's Mask.
![Played via 2Ship2Harkinian. 100% clear (for the first time ever.)
When I was doing my Metroid series playthrough, I skipped replaying and reviewing Super Metroid for the same reason I'm skipping Ocarina of Time now. I am just too familiar and too emotionally connected to those two games to be able to approach them objectively or play them like a first-timer. I am slightly less familiar with Majora's Mask but it was still in that territory where I found myself ignoring cutscenes and doing small sequence breaks out of habit. 100%ing it for the first time did restore some novelty, as there were a handful of heart pieces I had never collected before, and a few more I didn't even know existed.
Ocarina of Time is an incredibly formative and important game to me, but I used to iconclastically say Majora's Mask was my favorite. And the reasons for that are still there: it's so oddball and character-driven and dreamlike and dark for a Zelda game. It really is Zelda Gaiden, with a very significant number of Shenmue-like planner-studying and day-night cycle managing sidequests.
Ocarina of Time had 8 main dungeons, 2 mini-dungeons (Ice Cavern and Bottom of the Well), 1 optional dungeon (Gerudo Training Ground), and 1 mega-dungeon (Ganon's Castle). Majora's Mask comparatively has only 4 main dungeons, though there are plenty of mini-dungeons, which is a sore spot for many players. With hindsight, this exactly presages the dungeon numbers of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom, with the sprawling, interactive world only getting orders of magnitude larger. Breath of the Wild and Ocarina of Time are the bold step into a design for a series that settled into a formula; and Tears of the Kingdom and Majora's Mask are the iterations on that break with precedent, using asset reuse as an opportunity to iterate and refocus on what new expressions can be made within this possibility-space.
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September 27, 2026 at 4:12 AM
like with my recent Metal Gear, SCUMM, and Metroid series playthroughs, I've been going through the Zelda games chronologically and writing up my thoughts on my backloggd. Here's some thoughts on Majora's Mask.
Daily scene from “Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge” (VGA): Part II — Four Map Pieces #MonkeyIsland
September 26, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Daily scene from “Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge” (VGA): Part II — Four Map Pieces #MonkeyIsland
I guess folks didn't know about it. Some more info and pictures here
scummbar.com/the-movie
scummbar.com/the-movie
The Canceled Monkey Island Movie — The Monkey Island SCUMM Bar
A dive into the movie that (probably thankfully) never was.
scummbar.com
September 26, 2026 at 11:56 AM
I guess folks didn't know about it. Some more info and pictures here
scummbar.com/the-movie
scummbar.com/the-movie
We have officially reached peak levels of optimization.
My SCUMM interpreter running on an Elektronika BK-0011M (incredible that there's a Mister core for this).
#IndieGameDev #Soviet #Socialism #8bit #SCUMM #LucasArts
My SCUMM interpreter running on an Elektronika BK-0011M (incredible that there's a Mister core for this).
#IndieGameDev #Soviet #Socialism #8bit #SCUMM #LucasArts
September 26, 2026 at 8:41 AM
We have officially reached peak levels of optimization.
My SCUMM interpreter running on an Elektronika BK-0011M (incredible that there's a Mister core for this).
#IndieGameDev #Soviet #Socialism #8bit #SCUMM #LucasArts
My SCUMM interpreter running on an Elektronika BK-0011M (incredible that there's a Mister core for this).
#IndieGameDev #Soviet #Socialism #8bit #SCUMM #LucasArts
Daily scene from “The Secret of Monkey Island” (PC Special Edition): Part III — Under Monkey Island #MonkeyIsland
September 25, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Daily scene from “The Secret of Monkey Island” (PC Special Edition): Part III — Under Monkey Island #MonkeyIsland
This is the result of merging my earlier SGDK codebase with a C translation of a fork of github.com/astrobleem/S...
(Yes. A lot of steps involved there)
I'm really fond of the scaling, even though it's less accurate than its bigger brother VM's
#RetroGameDev #IndieGameDev #SCUMM #Sega #MegaDrive
(Yes. A lot of steps involved there)
I'm really fond of the scaling, even though it's less accurate than its bigger brother VM's
#RetroGameDev #IndieGameDev #SCUMM #Sega #MegaDrive
September 25, 2026 at 11:57 AM
This is the result of merging my earlier SGDK codebase with a C translation of a fork of github.com/astrobleem/S...
(Yes. A lot of steps involved there)
I'm really fond of the scaling, even though it's less accurate than its bigger brother VM's
#RetroGameDev #IndieGameDev #SCUMM #Sega #MegaDrive
(Yes. A lot of steps involved there)
I'm really fond of the scaling, even though it's less accurate than its bigger brother VM's
#RetroGameDev #IndieGameDev #SCUMM #Sega #MegaDrive
El van començar el 1985 en paper i llapis, com un joc de taula, abans de programar-lo. Ron Gilbert es va adonar que el projecte era massa gros per fer-lo en assemblador i va crear un motor nou, el SCUMM, pensat per reutilitzar en moltes aventures.
September 25, 2026 at 8:28 AM
El van començar el 1985 en paper i llapis, com un joc de taula, abans de programar-lo. Ron Gilbert es va adonar que el projecte era massa gros per fer-lo en assemblador i va crear un motor nou, el SCUMM, pensat per reutilitzar en moltes aventures.
@lardratboy.bsky.social Any idea? Maybe I should just write a small SCUMM VM that only implements the necessary opcodes and exploit the existing constructs? A level could be represented by a Room and an Object could either be a unique object or something called for every one of the same type.
September 24, 2026 at 8:55 PM
@lardratboy.bsky.social Any idea? Maybe I should just write a small SCUMM VM that only implements the necessary opcodes and exploit the existing constructs? A level could be represented by a Room and an Object could either be a unique object or something called for every one of the same type.
Daily scene from “Tales of Monkey Island” (PC): Episode III — Lair of the Leviathan #MonkeyIsland
September 24, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Daily scene from “Tales of Monkey Island” (PC): Episode III — Lair of the Leviathan #MonkeyIsland
Daily scene from “The Secret of Monkey Island” (CD-ROM): Part I — The Three Trials #MonkeyIsland
September 23, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Daily scene from “The Secret of Monkey Island” (CD-ROM): Part I — The Three Trials #MonkeyIsland
I haven’t even started on Rick Scumm yet.
September 22, 2026 at 3:02 PM
I haven’t even started on Rick Scumm yet.
Daily scene from “The Secret of Monkey Island” (PC EGA): Part I — The Three Trials #MonkeyIsland
September 22, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Daily scene from “The Secret of Monkey Island” (PC EGA): Part I — The Three Trials #MonkeyIsland
It probably would work better with the Hercules version but I'd probably have to port those assets to the SCUMM v5 engine version of Secret of Monkey Island.
September 22, 2026 at 12:34 PM
It probably would work better with the Hercules version but I'd probably have to port those assets to the SCUMM v5 engine version of Secret of Monkey Island.
Absolutely, the SCUMM era produced an absolutely insane run of games, and they hold up so dang well, one of my go-to comfort-watches is just playthroughs of S&M and the other comedy games
September 22, 2026 at 3:28 AM
Absolutely, the SCUMM era produced an absolutely insane run of games, and they hold up so dang well, one of my go-to comfort-watches is just playthroughs of S&M and the other comedy games
i hope the loom guy in the scumm bar convinces him to play loom as well
September 21, 2026 at 9:06 PM
i hope the loom guy in the scumm bar convinces him to play loom as well
I'm really shocked there hasn't been any animated or even live action versions of any of the Lucasarts SCUMM point and click games (FoA excluded)
September 21, 2026 at 6:32 PM
I'm really shocked there hasn't been any animated or even live action versions of any of the Lucasarts SCUMM point and click games (FoA excluded)
Daily scene from “Return to Monkey Island” (PC): Part IV — Things Get Complicated #MonkeyIsland
September 21, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Daily scene from “Return to Monkey Island” (PC): Part IV — Things Get Complicated #MonkeyIsland
Screw it, the raw footage from the previous two videos:
youtu.be/tVT0r3X1T88
I die in a very stupid way at about 40 minutes, but that should be enough to give you an idea of how it plays.
youtu.be/tVT0r3X1T88
I die in a very stupid way at about 40 minutes, but that should be enough to give you an idea of how it plays.
Derelikt - Small part of the limited playtest.
YouTube video by SCUMM
youtu.be
September 21, 2026 at 2:42 PM
Screw it, the raw footage from the previous two videos:
youtu.be/tVT0r3X1T88
I die in a very stupid way at about 40 minutes, but that should be enough to give you an idea of how it plays.
youtu.be/tVT0r3X1T88
I die in a very stupid way at about 40 minutes, but that should be enough to give you an idea of how it plays.
Same. It was the 32-colour, text-UI Amiga version, but when Guybrush went along the dock and into the Scumm Bar it was like I'd wandered onto the Holodeck.
September 21, 2026 at 7:09 AM
Same. It was the 32-colour, text-UI Amiga version, but when Guybrush went along the dock and into the Scumm Bar it was like I'd wandered onto the Holodeck.