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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.

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.

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.

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, . Many of the poems were first published in his electronic mailinglist.

Grossman co-designed a successful robot toy for Fisher-Price.

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.

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Games - Dave Grossman

Game industry career

Children's books

Other work

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