My favourite from last year is from Daniel Benmergui, 'cos it has LUDOMANCY.COM scrawled on the back in pen

Rendering is sexy and all, but as a gameplay programmer I'm more interested in dull crap like memory management, garbage collection, object versioning and serialization, data inheritence, and automagic property editing. Engines tend to ignore a lot of this stuff, and that makes my life a lot harder. Are there plans to do this stuff earlier? Possibly first?

EDIT: Heh, GC got a mention while I was posting this.

Gratz! I hope you enjoy it.

See? Totally worth it.

I went through < 50 last year, but then I wasn't manning an IGF booth or anything. I still think it was worth having them though.

I suspect that breathing the air in this game will allow me to fold space and time. Nice one.

do it

It sounds like something that could happen in The Fly, but I haven't actually seen it.

CD32. Who wouldn't want their game on this luminous platform?

Happy birthday Edmund!

For the next month and a half we'll have to share being 29 (and probably the oldest people here).

I am very keen to use this engine.

I'd also be happy to contribute bits and pieces, but engine programming's really not my strength.

Looks good dude. I'll have to make an iPhone owner buy it so I can try it out

I wouldn't mind having a title that describes the game better, but I haven't been able to come up with one yet. 

iHeroez? <--- NEVER.

I think you should play up the management / superhero collision some more, especially in the name. The player should feel empowered by this hero leadership opportunity. Unfortunately most corporate-speak is quite cumbersome, so it's difficult to come up with something snappy. My favourite so far is "Synergy Squad".

Looks nice.

For some reason my brain reads the foreground as the background in screenie #4 (dark brown ground in grey land). I think it might be the even-darker-brown bits on the top of the brown tiles.

Working in "The Industry" can be a really good way to meet and learn from talented people. Also there's no better way to learn gamedev than to do it 40 hours a week, which is difficult when it's not your source of income. I don't think building a waaahll between indie and mainstream helps anybody. Yes, some companies are cocks. That's no reason to avoid all of them.

I'll gladly partake in any agreed-upon activity. I'd rather not do anything during the day though. I here there's a conference on.

I don't mean to be glib, am just in a hurry. Have you played A Tale in the Desert? You should really check it out.

Looks awesome dude.

I like it. I think the big challenge now is coming up with satisfying higher level goals for the player (smash x stuff in y seconds etc). Add an absurd story and I'm sold.

Oh, and I think it's possible to perform flips indefinitely, thereby building up an insane multiplier. I think you might find a balance issue there.

is the biggest reason why I haven't gone full time indie. That and my generally risk-averse nature. Also I fear that if I created my games for profit I wouldn't get to make the kinds of games I like. Then I'd be all 

Is this for the Polytron splash screen?

I'd love to see this machine blink on, then have the camera pan up close to fill my screen with Polytron Logo Love.