Francisco Gonzalez has been making adventure games using Adventure Game Studio since 2001. After concluding his eight-part series of freeware adventures about paranormal investigator Ben Jordan in 2012, he moved from his native Miami to Brooklyn and transitioned to making games professionally as Grundislav Games. His first commercial title, A Golden Wake, a historical drama about land development in 1920s Florida, launched in 2014, followed by post-apocalyptic plague thriller Shardlight in 2016. In 2018, he released the detective mystery Lamplight City, published by Application Systems Heidelberg.
Raised on classic adventures from the likes of Sierra, LucasArts, and Revolution, Francisco is a champion of the modern indie adventure game scene and believes that the genre is the perfect medium for telling all kinds of stories.
According to my 11th grade history teacher, Grundislav is the ancient Germanic form of González (turns out it's actually Gundisalv, but that doesn't quite roll off the tongue) My classmates started calling me Grundislav, so I decided to adopt it as my online handle, and it stuck.
I build the games in Adventure Game Studio, which is a free to download open source engine designed specifically for point & click adventures (although you can make other types of games with it) I draw backgrounds and characters in Photoshop CS2, and use Goldwave to edit audio.
Start small. Participate in game jams and teach yourself the most important skill: finishing a game. Once you're familiar with your workflow, you can start thinking about tackling larger projects. Also, don't get discouraged if you can't draw or program. Practice makes perfect!
Unfortunately, I am not hiring, and I don't accept interns. I'm literally just a guy in his basement making games. Sorry!
Mostly! Though I do the bulk of the work, I've also collaborated with some very talented folks, including musicians like Pete Gresser, Nathaniel Chambers, and Mark Benis. My partner Jess Haskins has also worked on my more recent games as a narrative consultant, script editor, and assistant writer.
The Ben Jordan series is done, and I have no interest in returning to or revisiting it. Unfortunately, I no longer have access to the source code for the games, so I have no way of updating them or offering any kind of patch support, which makes putting them on Steam not worth the effort.
Currently, the only official localization available for my games is German for Lamplight City. I won't stop anyone from doing fan translations, but I can't officially support them.
Check the Steam page, or the game's page on this website. If you can't find a release date, it means it hasn't been announced yet. In the meantime, consider the release date "when it's done."
