Dave Grossman
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Dave Grossman is a noted game programmer and game designer, most known for his early work at LucasArts. He also wrote several children's books.
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[edit] Game industry career
At LucasArts, Grossman wrote and programmed The Secret of Monkey Island and Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge together with Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer. He later co-designed Day of the Tentacle.
Grossman quit LucasArts in 1994 to begin a freelance career. For Humongous Entertainment, a company co-founded by Ron Gilbert, he helped create many critically acclaimed games aimed at children, such as the Pajama Sam series. Later he also wrote children's games for Hulabee Entertainment and Disney.
Today he designs adventure games at Telltale Games, a company founded by LucasArts veterans.[1]
[edit] Children's books
Lyrick Publishing published three books written by Grossman that were based on characters from Humongous Entertainment's games. They were Freddi Fish: The Big Froople Match, Pajama Sam: Mission to the Moon and Freddi Fish: The Missing Letters Mystery.
For Fisher-Price/Nickelodeon, Grossman authored two interactive books, SpongeBob SquarePants: Sleepy Time and Fairly OddParents: Squawkers.
[edit] Other work
Dave Grossman is the author of "Ode to the Stuff in the Sink: A Book of Guy Poetry," which he self-published in 2002. It contains a selection of illustrated poems dedicated to different aspects of male life, including inability to dance, old stuff in the fridge, and unwillingness to clean anything.
The book is available from Dave Grossman's personal website, Phrenopolis.com. Many of the poems were first published in his Poem of the Week electronic mailinglist.
Grossman co-designed a successful robot toy for Fisher-Price.
[edit] Games worked on
- The Secret of Monkey Island (1990), JVC, LucasArts
- Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (1991), LucasArts
- Day of the Tentacle (1993), LucasArts
- Pajama Sam: No Need To Hide When It's Dark Outside (1996), Humongous Entertainment
- Pajama Sam 2: Thunder and Lightning Aren't So Frightening (1998), Humongous Entertainment
- Freddi Fish 4: The Case of the Hogfish Rustlers of Briny Gulch (1999), Humongous Entertainment
- Pajama Sam 3: You Are What You Eat From Your Head To Your Feet (2000), Humongous Entertainment
- Moop and Dreadly: The Treasure on Bing Bong Island (2001), Hulabee/Plaid Banana
- Ollo in The Sunny Valley Fair (2002), Hulabee/Plaid Banana
- Piglet's Big Game (2003), Disney
Grossman also made contributions to Total Annihilation and was a script editor on Voodoo Vince.
