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I was hoping he would stick for another adventure game but now he is going to do a Musical Match-3 (another one…) Pirate RPG for iOS, but that’s probably just a little side project

http://grumpygamer.com/main

Pretty much what I expected, but sad nonetheless. I was hoping he’d chip in a little more on DFA now that his work on The Cave was over.

What I mean by chipping in means actively involved with the design, not just giving pointers here and there as a glorified tester, which I’m sure he’ll do.

When he originally joined Double Fine I remember reading that he’d actually been working out of the DF office on his projects prior to that, so he may still be around here and there, even if he’s not heading up a game being made by the studio.

This comes as a bit of a shock to me personally mostly because I listened to a pretty fun interview with the man himself just yesterday and he sounded happy with Double Fine and Tim’s willingness to help him do The Cave (apparently, Ron has had the idea for The Cave since even before Maniac Mansion). He did also sound tired now when I think about it. Hm.

TerminusEst - 12 March 2013 02:50 PM

This comes as a bit of a shock to me personally mostly because I listened to a pretty fun interview with the man himself just yesterday and he sounded happy with Double Fine and Tim’s willingness to help him do The Cave…

I don’t think he was unhappy at Double Fine. It’s probably a combination of A) he had a side-project lined up already and B) DF didn’t have another publishing deal waiting in the wings for a new Ron game.

The Cave is a beautiful “snack” and not an adventure game. But it is a really good one. No surprise here, since Gilbert was not a DF member. It would be great though if they would announce a long time partnership for game develpment.

That’s too bad. I was hoping they would let him helm a DFA 2 or something.

Sounded to me like the plan was always that ron was really only at double fine for the cave. Of course the tone kind of changed with DFA, but looks like the plan did not.
As an adventure fan, im not upset about this… i havnt heard ron say a lot of things about adventure games that i liked.

Dag - 12 March 2013 11:50 AM

To me that reads a little like: “Thanks for making my game… so long suckers!”

I think i see it the same way ... ron gilbert had always seemed to me as the total opposite of tim schafer but they had just completed each other at a certain time; tim the artist who might risk everything for doing what he loves and Ron like the manager always play it safe and much more commercial, so it doesn’t really surprise me .
so i would like to think of it as there was no place for that manager and to work under that artist whom he had once discovered/employed (way back) and to admit that DF future (now) lies in the hands of tim  

I remember in the original double fine adventure kickstarter pitch video Ron shutting the door when Tim said he would help them, maybe it wasn’t a joke

I’m sure if another interesting project comes up they can work together again.

tobacos - 14 March 2013 04:41 PM

Dag - 12 March 2013 11:50 AM

To me that reads a little like: “Thanks for making my game… so long suckers!”

I think i see it the same way ... ron gilbert had always seemed to me as the total opposite of tim schafer but they had just completed each other at a certain time

Are you serious? They seemed pretty much on the same page with many things, especially with their views on adventure gaming (views I totally agree with, by the way), from what I could tell.

I think you people are reading too much into this.

I am sure they will work together again.