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. In 2009 he returned to his Monkey Island roots, as Design Director on Telltale Games' episodic Tales of Monkey Island.
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