--- title: Six Grim Years date: 2021-01-26T13:25:00-08:00 author: Harper Jay canonical_url: "https://www.doublefine.com/news/six-grim-years" section: News --- # Six Grim Years January 26th 2021 Wow! What a dramatic title! I remember livestreaming [*Grim Fandango* ](https://www.doublefine.com/games/grim-fandango-remastered)*[Remastered](https://www.doublefine.com/games/grim-fandango-remastered)* on the midnight of release. That was six years ago today, all the way back in 2015! It seems both like yesterday and a lifetime ago. I was a barista at the time who had just started working as freelance writer on the side. *Grim Fandango* was always a favorite of mine but the idea of a remaster? The fact that I could play it again without using something like ResidualVM and that tons of folks would finally get to enjoy the game? That was a great. And, like... let's be clear for a moment: I'm not saying that *Grim Fandango* is good because Tim Schafer is my boss. It's just a legit good game and the remaster really did feel like such a work of love. Am I freaked out that was six years ago? Yes. Do I feel strange about my own mortality? Absolutely. That's just how life goes and what I really like about *Grim* is that its vision of death, pulling from cherished folklore, is ultimately a positive thing. Time passes. Death happens. We get old. No one knows what's gonna happen at the end of the line, right? It's affecting to think about games and art and to imagine how they will last throughout time. A really cool thing about *Grim Fandango Remastered* is that it shows how people can come together to preserve something that they care about. But enough sappy stuff. We're here to celebrate and so I want to share with you something I dug up not so long ago as I assumed my role here at Double Fine, part of which involves being something of a shepherd of studio history and other things. It's the *Grim Fandango* Developer Diaries! Tim wrote these musings decades ago for the game's strategy guide and I'm happy to share them with you. - [![Grim Diary 01](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_01.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_01.jpg "Grim Diary 01") - [![Grim Diary 02](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_02.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_02.jpg "Grim Diary 02") - [![Grim Diary 03](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_03.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_03.jpg "Grim Diary 03") - [![Grim Diary 05](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_05.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_05.jpg "Grim Diary 05") - [![Grim Diary 04](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_04.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_04.jpg "Grim Diary 04") - [![Grim Diary 06](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_06.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_06.jpg "Grim Diary 06") - [![Grim Diary 07](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_07.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_07.jpg "Grim Diary 07") - [![Grim Diary 08](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_08.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_08.jpg "Grim Diary 08") - [![Grim Diary 09](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_09.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_09.jpg "Grim Diary 09") - [![Grim Diary 10](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_10.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_10.jpg "Grim Diary 10") - [![Grim Diary 11](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_11.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_11.jpg "Grim Diary 11") - [![Grim Diary 12](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_12.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_12.jpg "Grim Diary 12") - [![Grim Diary 13](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_13.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_13.jpg "Grim Diary 13") - [![Grim Diary 14](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_14.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_14.jpg "Grim Diary 14") - [![Grim Diary 15](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_15.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_15.jpg "Grim Diary 15") - [![Grim Diary 17](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_17.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_17.jpg "Grim Diary 17") - [![Grim Diary 16](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_16.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_16.jpg "Grim Diary 16") - [![Grim Diary 18](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_18.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_18.jpg "Grim Diary 18") - [![Grim Diary 19](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_19.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_19.jpg "Grim Diary 19") - [![Grim Diary 20](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_20.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_20.jpg "Grim Diary 20") - [![Grim Diary 21](https://assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_21.jpg)](//assets.doublefine.com/shared/news/2021/GrimDiary_21.jpg "Grim Diary 21") Grim Fandango "Designer Diaries" by Tim Schafer This gallery represents a small piece of *Grim*'s history as well. Game preservation, an archivist once told me, isn't just about the game. It's also about preserving the context and other media around it. So! I hope you enjoy this little slice of history. As time goes on, we're going to expand our behind the scenes and making of sections with all sorts of things. Interviews, post-mortems, old documents like this, and more. I hope you'll look forward to it. For now! Let's celebrate Grim Fandango. And if you've never played it, you can literally get it on Xbox Game Pass right now and other places. PS4, Steam. It's easy to play and you should totally play it! Until next time, keep keepin' on. -Heather --- ## Tags [grim fandango](https://www.doublefine.com/search/tag/grim-fandango) --- ## Associated games [Grim Fandango Remastered](https://www.doublefine.com/games/grim-fandango-remastered "Grim Fandango Remastered") --- ## Related news [A Very Grim Anniversary October 28th 2023 ](https://www.doublefine.com/news/a-very-grim-anniversary) [Grim Fandango Physical Switch Edition Announced February 15th 2022 ](https://www.doublefine.com/news/grim-fandango-physical-switch-edition-announced) [Grim Fandango Vinyl Soundtrack And Physical Edition November 1st 2018 ](https://www.doublefine.com/news/grim-fandango-vinyl-soundtrack-and-physical-edition) [Grim Fandango Creeps Onto Nintendo Switch November 1st 2018 ](https://www.doublefine.com/news/grim-fandango-out-now-for-nintendo-switch) [Watch the special performance of Grim Fandango Live, featuring Jack Black June 13th 2018 ](https://www.doublefine.com/news/watch-the-special-performance-of-grim-fandango-live-featuring-jack-black) [Broken Age and Grim Fandango on Nintendo Switch June 13th 2018 ](https://www.doublefine.com/news/broken-age-and-grim-fandango-on-nintendo-switch) [Some of our games will no longer work on the new version of iOS August 14th 2017 ](https://www.doublefine.com/news/some-of-our-games-will-no-longer-work-in-ios-11) [Announcing Full Throttle Remastered! 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