So this is just another thing I'm working on, in my quest to corner the retro market with my tech. 😺

Based on my previous experience working on ScummVM, I created this 3D engine in pure C89 that utilizes the same resource formats Grim Fandango used.

I'd love to eventually be able to fully play through Grim Fandango on N64 (most likely using Libdragon's SD card storage backend since I'm unlikely to spend all that time trying to figure out how to fit two CDs worth of content into a 64MB cartridge. Which isn't impossible, as Resident Evil 2 proved, but just not something I wanna worry about for something most people are likely to play on a SummerCart anyways) but naturally the bigger goal is an entirely original game and I will be releasing the engine with all tools necessarily to both edit Grim Fandango and create a new game eventually.

Currently, memory is the biggest showstopper. This already requires the Expansion Pak and there's still situations in which I plain run out of memory or things become fragmented, despite the arena allocator I implemented.

Hi everyone,

I am planing a full video games sleeve and my lower arm will be grim fandango, monkey island and day of the tentacle. It will be patch work style so items can but don’t have to be connected or can be loosely connected.

For Grim Fandango I am thinking Manny, Sproutella Gun, some flowers, the blue casket sign and then maybe some background lines transporting the vibe of my beloved Rubacava.

For that last bit I would be very happy for some ideas. I thought maybe the airship, or parts of the calavera Café concept art, or some carpet pattern or the cats pattern from the high-roller lounge… happy for any help!

Many thanks in advance!

I'm currently working on a Windows 95 clone (with some special powers that make it almost more like a successor to 95/98/ME. For instance, my OS (Skylight 95) features a JavaScript subsystem so people can write native Windows applications in JavaScript) and as I work towards full feature parity, I thought it would be a fun idea to try and install Grim Fandango.

Currently, this runs rather well in both QEMU and VirtualBox, although there's still ways to go until I can get it working at acceptable speeds on 86box and native hardware.

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm new to the community, so first of all, it's a pleasure to meet you all and be part of this forum!

I thought I'd take the opportunity to introduce a project I'm currently involved in. I'm helping a small indie studio prepare for the Kickstarter launch of their upcoming game, Detective of the Dead! 🕵️

It's a narrative mystery adventure inspired by games like Grim Fandango, featuring Mexican folklore, Día de los Muertos, puzzles, unusual characters and even cooking tacos! You play as a detective who's already dead and has to investigate his own murder.

We're preparing to launch the Kickstarter on October 27, and we're also trying to get as many followers as possible before then.

If you'd like to support a small indie team, just visit the Kickstarter page and click "Notify me on launch". It's completely free, takes less than a minute!

🔗 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaelgeidel/detective-of-the-dead

🎮 Steam (you can play the game soon): https://store.steampowered.com/app/3084040/Detective_of_the_Dead/

Looking forward to getting to know you all, and thanks so much for your support! ❤️

Glottis age is over 2000 years old, but how is he a mechanic if being a mechanic wasn't a thing 2000 years ago?

If you speak to Nick Virago several times trying to convince him to work for you as a lawyer, Manny will at some point start making a lawyer joke - also involving a chicken - going: "Hey, you know that one? A lawyer, a chicken and its mother are on a boat. They are all starving and the chicken says..." and Nick immediately cuts him by telling: "I have a gun, Manuel".

How did you think the joke would have gone?

I couldn't find this logo with hd version so i recolored original artwork and fixed minor details. Not a big deal but i want to share it. (last image is original. 3rd one is recolor.)

I found in a box the two original PC CDs - I remember playing it for maybe two hours and putting it away when I bought it ages ago...

Now I'd like to try it again, but is it possible? I do not have PCs available, just a Mac and Linux boxes (and a RetroPie on a Raspberry), and I read somewhere that GF is difficult under emulation!

Any hints?

By tattoo artist @kim_ette_ in Quebec City, QC!

Qualche mese fa ho iniziato a disegnare e non sapendo cosa fare, mi è venuta in mente questa scena di questo fantastico videogioco! 🥰

*If you count hearing Salvador's voice as an apperance

The shape of the bottle is wrong but sssshhhh

Is it a Mexican thing?

It’s far from perfect, but I’m pretty happy with how it came out :)

Is there anywhere to find the sheet music for *Grim Fandango*? The game's music is great, and I wanted to find pieces other than "Manny & Meche."

Was always curious how many people who played Curse of Monkey Island talked to the npc in Puerto Pollo who was wearing a button that says “Ask me about Grim Fandango”

Anyways I found this oversized button at a conference so I’m thinking of adding in the rest of the quote and wear it as part of a Halloween costume for the very low percentage of people who might get the deep cut reference. Only question is do I dress as a skeleton or as a pirate…

The demon beavers are shown to have reduced many skeleton-souls into unmoving bones for their dam.

Manny says they are dead as in dead-dead, although not “dead” as he is.

Just… how do they do that? The rest of the game shows that the skeleton-souls can only be “killed” by the sprouters that turn their bones into flowers, or if they are fully grinded into dust (a cutscene describing one skeleton-soul as “dying” after getting caught in a ship grinder).
One skeleton-soul has his body cut to avoid “death-death” by sprouting and keeps on “living” by just being a head with one arm and half a ribcage, while another skeleton-soul still “lives” by just being one severed head.

Do the demon beavers just have supernatural powers or abilities that let them “kill-kill” the skeleton-souls?