Hey I'm Shadow2727, I've been watching this forum from a distance for a short time now and have decided to join in on the action. I'm 18 years old and have been programming and designing games for about 7 years. Even before my first programming language, QBASIC, I had been designing trading card games and board games to play with friends and siblings. Once I discovered QBASIC my game making career rocketed forwards into some 500 half-finished games. Since then I've experimented with many other languages and game creation engines including C, C++, Visual Basic, Pascal, Turing, Flash, Java, Game Maker, and probably many many more that I can't think of right now. Apart from programming I also do a lot of drawing, by hand and on computer; and make music, whether playing guitar or, again, on computer. I guess thats about all I have to say other than.. Hello TIGsource community!