26 Facts About Ron Gilbert

Ron Gilbert was born on January 1,1964 and is an American video-game designer, programmer, and producer.

Ron Gilbert's games are generally focused on interactive story-telling, and he is arguably best known for his work on several LucasArts adventure games, including Maniac Mansion and the first two Monkey Island games.

Ron Gilbert afterwards joined Lucasfilm Games, and was given the opportunity to develop his own games.

Ron Gilbert invented SCUMM, a technology used in many subsequent games.

Ron Gilbert cofounded Hulabee Entertainment with Shelley Day, releasing children's games between 2001 and 2003.

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Ron Gilbert is the son of David E Gilbert, a physics professor and former president of Eastern Oregon University.

Ron Gilbert became interested in games when he was thirteen years old thanks to a HP-65 programmable calculator his father used to bring home.

Ron Gilbert found the ability to program games on the calculator interesting, citing an example of a Battleship-like game that was included on the calculator, leading him wanting him to learn how to program other games.

Ron Gilbert saw the potential to program games as a creative outlet as he continued his studies towards the film industry.

Ron Gilbert used to study and analyze games for hours; capturing in his mind every frame of the layout of games like Donkey Kong, Pac-Man, Asteroids, Space Invaders or Robotron: 2084; taking notes of every detail and then trying to replicate them on his computer.

Ron Gilbert used to look at Atari 2600 games' advertisements in magazines, then imagined what the game was like to play and tried to make them on his computer.

Ron Gilbert began his professional career in 1983 while he was still a student at Eastern Oregon State College by writing a program named Graphics BASIC with Tom McFarlane.

Ron Gilbert spent about half a year at HESware, programming action games for the Commodore 64.

Shortly thereafter, Ron Gilbert joined Lucasfilm Games, which later became LucasArts.

Maniac Mansion features cutscenes, a word coined by Ron Gilbert, that interrupt gameplay to advance the story and inform the player about offscreen events.

Ron Gilbert created many successful adventure games at LucasArts, including the classic The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge.

In 1995, Ron Gilbert founded Cavedog Entertainment, Humongous' sister company for non-kids games.

Ron Gilbert started a blog "Grumpy Gamer", offering game industry commentary, occasionally in the form of animated cartoons that he created with Voodoo Vince designer Clayton Kauzlaric.

In 2007, Ron Gilbert created "Threepwood", an exclusively Monkey Island-themed guild on the World of Warcraft server Quel'Dorei, and Ron Gilbert began to collaborate with Hothead Games on Penny Arcade Adventures: On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, a game based on the webcomic Penny Arcade.

Ron Gilbert was chosen to be the Keynote Speaker for Penny Arcade Expo for 2009.

The episodic fifth entry in the Monkey Island series marked the first time Ron Gilbert worked on a Monkey Island game since 1991's LeChuck's Revenge.

Ron Gilbert will continue to promote DeathSpank with Electronic Arts.

In September 2010, it was revealed that Ron Gilbert had been hired by fellow former LucasArts game designer Tim Schafer, to work at Schafer's own Double Fine Productions.

Ron Gilbert has been quoted in November 2012 as not being optimistic about the franchise's future, believing that Disney might abandon the franchise in favor of Pirates of the Caribbean; however, in December 2012, he was quoted as wishing to contact Disney, hoping to "make the game he wants to make".

In 2017, fans of the series launched an online petition in support of Ron Gilbert, asking Disney to sell the franchises to him; as of December 2021, the petition has gathered about 29,000 signatures.

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On March 15,2018, Ron Gilbert announced he was in the early stages of developing an RPG called A Little Something.