Secret of Delphi Island

(Satire)

Your reviewer was doing some looking up some of the biographies (or bio for short) of people on those not-so-legal forums.

Your reviewer found three Delphi sites where their owners went to work dressed as a pirate, took photos of themselves in the office as a pirate, and believe-it-or-not, posted it on their flickr or linked to their blog.

Then, they went and do their business of uploading file upon file on those not-so legal forums.







What does that remind you of?
Either it's talk like a pirate day (website), dress like a pirate day, or this whole Delphi thing is starting to feel like you're in "Secret of Monkey Delphi Island"

There's person called Largo which sounds uncannily similar to Embarcadero whose objective seems to milk Delphi developers of their hard earned money








There's even TeamB circus where, with answering many newsgroup questions, you can become one of them, too.

The game reflects real-life Delphi development. The game has people who sell documentation (a much needed asset in the Delphi community)

The game even sells GamePlayer's magazine, which sounds eerily similar to the Delphi Magazine.









There's even a troll who operates a troll-booth. Feels like the third-party vendors who need payment before providing the products.

 

There are plenty of "Men of Low Moral Fiber" in the Delphi community.















There is also chance to form a development team.

Like real-life Delphi developers, they expect you to pay lots and lots of money to do almost nothing and relax and enjoy while you do all the work...

Monkey Island has a fighting system called "Insult sword-fighting". This sounds eerily similar to the long-winded insult postings in the Embarcadero newsgroups.

Maybe someone was playing real-world "Monkey Island" and testing their insult sword-fighting skills on the Embarcardero forums?















There is also opportunity to buy used Boats. That sounds like buying copies of Delphi. The price sounds right - around 4,000 pieces of Gold or approx 4,000 Euros.

I wonder how much are the commissions Mr. Stan. made for selling one boat... err... one copy of Delphi?

Mr. Herman Toothrot would find it very comforting there is a dentist in the Embarcadero newsgroups...

Where about the Help Files for the game Monkey Island? There are none - You have to figure it all out yourself. Does that sound similar to real-life Delphi development?


The game-play in the "Secret of Monkey Island" feels like real-life Delphi software development. This blog posting is a humorous and satirical look on Delphi software development.