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[mildmojo]

I have, in fact, used both Allegro and SDL for various purposes, but found their capabilities or performance lacking. Thus, I decided to go the obvious logical route and learn OpenGL (due to cross-platform capabilities, I am an avid Linux user due to my daytime job) to write my own 2D engine.

I went through the Linux SDL->OpenGL progression myself, recently, and I can recommend GLFW as a bare-bones, cross-platform way to get basic GL window handling, input, high-resolution timer access, and TGA texture loading.  FTGL does a decent job at getting truetype fonts on the screen, too.  I'm with you on DIY from a minimal dependency point of view, but these things are nice little productivity boosters.

[diwil]

I went through the Linux SDL->OpenGL progression myself, recently, and I can recommend GLFW as a bare-bones, cross-platform way to get basic GL window handling, input, high-resolution timer access, and TGA texture loading.

Ooh, nice! I'll keep that in mind and look into it.

[MasterRaichu]

Hello, community. 

I'm a 22-year-old artist from New Jersey, USA.  I'm a recent college grad specializing in 3D Animation.  While I'm new to the Tigforums, in terms of indie games, I've been on the scene for quite awhile assisting with graphics for my long-time friend, KNPMASTER's games.  I'm also the webmaster for The Games Page (http://www.thegamespage.com), which is pretty much our home base.

I've been a gamer ever since I was a kid, and I've always dreamed of coming up with my own cast of characters and using games as a format for telling their stories.  I've always found it much more entertaining to actually "play" out a story rather than just watch it play out.  However, let us not forget the first rule of making a good game, and that is FOCUS ON THE GAMEPLAY.

My influences for my art are of course the games I grew up with (ranging from the Atari 2600 to the NES to the Sega Genesis games of old), as well as just watching the world around me.  You never know what little nuance of the world is going to influence the next great thing you do.

That's me in a nutshell.  Can't wait to get started here!   

[Teal]

Uh. Let's see. Paul Kowalewski (formerly named things involving Teal). 18 (I think). Been lurking for, um, 2... days. Already forgot how I got here. Been wanting to do games for a while, no actual completed games (except for, um, old gamefactory (ew) games from middle school) or any real game-making experience. However, I do have vague, pixel art. Actually, I haven't actually drawn in forever, but I've recently gotten back into pixel... doing. Apparently there's a lot of better more sophisticated pixelers here. I'll just say my style is minimalist and it'll be okay.

My computer's wack and says my graphic card is screwed up, hence I can't use or play anything related to Game Maker, which sucks, cause that's where I was intending to start.

I do too many things which results in not being skilled at any of them. I'm apparently a musician that doesn't really play music, amateur filmmaker (though on unwanted haitus due to everyone else having jobs and school.), graphic designer, used to draw / writer never-made comics, wanna-be fashion designer. If you want to check out any of those dumb things, click link in profile yes. I should probably find a / go to college. Any suggestions?

You'll probably never hear from me again because I'm too unproductive to get anything done and I'm in a ridiculous laziness slump. I don't even PLAY many games anymore.

[sammichcat]

Hello, my name is John Deiman. I'm a Flash developer who has made a ton of Flash cartoons for albinoblacksheep.com and has recently started working with ActionScript to develop Flash games. I'm known as ryoshenron throughout most of the intarwebs.

I've been obsessed with video games since the age of 6, and obsessed with computers since I got my first very own machine (a 286) at the age of 8. I've always enjoyed downloading and trying out freeware PC games and now I've decided to try my hand at creating one myself (that you don't actually have to download since it's in Flash :-P), and so I joined this community to get some feedback and support.

[Renton]

Welcome to the forums, guys. Always nice to have fresh blood. 

[Mush]

Hello TIGsource. I am Mush, mark it down for you'll be hearing a lot of it 
^^ Eh.. Anyway, I have recently got back into spriting after a very horrible start a few years ago.
Other than that I don't really have much experience in making games or much to do with art at all really, but that's kind of why I came here. To help improve my pixel art and if I ever want to code a game.
I found out about this site from a post on the fun-motion forum and have been lurking for a long time.

See yah 

[jonaw]

When waiting for the commies I look like this:

You scare me.

Aw, common, the picture isnt THAT lame. Posted it just for funs.
You know  they throw me in jail in I refuse to fight the commies right?

[olio]

hey, i am olio! i just started programming a few months ago. i like the competitions you guys run here. hopefully when i am better i will be able to compete in them! 

[sionco]

good day. I'm Sion 23.

I first got into making games with Klick and Play, (the four disk version that included less graphics than the cd version, for which I was always jealous I didn't have).

Some of my awsome klick and play games included

Bebo - an awful platformer of a baby in a dicktracy style outfit except bright red and blue, and when he died he said in my teletubby(pre teletubby days)voice "eh-oh Bebo"
Military Bananas 1 (it was my take on worms, except it was a screen full of bananas on big vine platforms,)
Military Bananas 2, (the same as above but with different looking banana outfits)
Military Bananas 3
Military Bananas 4
Military Bananas 5 (I must have been short on ideas)
Military Bananas 5

I then took a break and finished school and a degree in CompSci in Uni (which I struggled to learn Java and never did, but managed to escape with 2:2)
I then left Uni, moved from the UK to Spain and dumped Java, and had a go of Game Maker, while I didn't finish anything, I got fed up of it,
I then moved on to a bit of Blitz3D last year, and now recently BlitzMax, which I find great my programming style for my 2d game needs, from this the only thing that I have finished is an educational game which I made for a children's academy - but now I have my own flat with studio and am hoping to expand on the educational games and also make some good proper games too.

So I haven't finished a proper game since 1997

I like beer and when babies hit each other.

[rotten_tater]

Hey everyone, I'm Ted Lauterbach, also known as rotten_tater/cool_manga_boy around the Game Maker Community. I'm a 20 year old guy born and raised in the tiny town of Boscobel, Wisconsin, USA. More recently, I've relocated to Sun Prairie, a slightly larger small place.

I'm really big into Game Maker. I've been working with it since about version 4(?), but hadn't really gotten good at it until a couple of years ago.

Some of my games include:
 I.C.E.
       An icey looking 2 level shmup
 Wave Shock
       An abstract looking arena shooter
 Visit
       An adventure puzzle platformer. With blocks.
 Visit 2
       An adventure puzzle platormer that also has blocks. And an extra dude.



Some of you may have heard of the last two games? Visit 2 recently was featured in Bytejacker and got second place in YoYoGames's Competition03.

Well, about me then.
I like eating. A LOT. I'm often found living around my laptop, and eating. Usually potatoes. They're tasty. Oh yeah, I like making games too.  Apart from games and food, I also enjoy composing on my free time. I generally use FL Studio for my fancy stuff, and good ol' midis in my games (save Wave Shock). If you want to listen in, you can check out my Myspace Music Account. Also, I'm proud to say that all resources in my games belong to me, except fonts and some .dlls that help with overly technical stuff.

I'm also a cactus fan.

I've been lurking around TIGSource for about a year now, and finally decided that I needed to get... active?

This is me, after I became bored and tired at the same time  :



And this is where I work:




So, that's me. By the way, does anyone know a good/decent, free/inexpensive website host?

Hope to have fun,
Ted

[increpare]

So, that's me. BTW, does anyone know a good decent free/inexpensive website host?

what level of functionality are you looking for?  Would google sites do, or do you need something a bit more functional?

[rotten_tater]

what level of functionality are you looking for?  Would google sites do, or do you need something a bit more functional?

I guess, I'm looking for a place I can have a dev blog and host games/other stuff. Would you still recomend them?

[increpare]

I guess, I'm looking for a place I can have a dev blog and host games/other stuff. Would you still recomend them?

No.  I've not gotten about to setting up camp with my own host yet, so I can't do much more than hearsay.  I'm sure if you'd start a thread on this topic in the general board that you'd get more than a few contributions.  (I don't think there's such a thread already, having carried out a search just there).  I, for one, would be interested in hearing what others have to recommend.

[ChevyRay]

Same here, funny that I stumbled on this. If one of you folks doesn't start it, I will

[VultureOfCulture]

Hello all! I'm the VultureOfCulture. I'm a gamer and I've followed TGIS' blog for a while. I love the games on there and decided to go ahead and join the forums because it looks like there's more goodness to be had on here on here.

I'm a big music fan. So much, in fact my dream job is to become a sound engineer. Hopefully next year I'll have the funds to send my ass to Full Sail to study that.

I also have a love for movies and video games so I may lend my sound engineering talents towards those mediums as well.

It's a pleasure to be here and I hope give you guys some feed back about the games that you post up here.

-VOC

[Inane]

Welcome, everyone.
VultureOfCulture: What kind of music and movies ya' into?

[theparticleman]

Hi, I'm Jon, also known as The Particle Man.  I've been into gaming for a long, long time.  I think the first video game I remember is my brother playing Pong and Tennis on some version of Atari, followed closely by Centipede on an old Sinclair-ish computer.  I really got introduced to gaming on the Commodore 64 though.  (Jumpman rules!)  In my golden age of gaming I moved into NES, SNES and PC.  For the past few years I haven't been as much into gaming though.  It seems like a lot of the focus has moved into flashiness and marketing.  Actually making games fun to play seems to be an afterthought for a lot of developers.  It doesn't help that a lot of new games now cost $50 or $60 or $70 or more.  And for what?  A game that's a lot like games that came out 5 or 10 years ago, just a little prettier.  Not really funner though.  But recently I've started being interested in indie game development because it seems like it's fueled more by passion than by money.  People making fun things for the sake of making fun things, rather than for the sake of making money.

Anyway, that's a little on my game related background.  In the real world I'm a senior software developer working on things that are much less fun than games.  I do get to do some architectural work which is more interesting, so that's nice.  I currently code primarily in C#, but I've also worked quite a bit in VB.NET, Java, C++, Pascal and good old BASIC.

[VultureOfCulture]

Welcome, everyone.
VultureOfCulture: What kind of music and movies ya' into?

Music: Pretty much everything. Rock, Metal, Alternative, Country (don't taze me, bro!), Alt-country, Rap, Techno, 8-bit, classical. Lately I haven't been able to stop listening to Ryan Adams and Wilco. My all time favorite band is Queens of the Stone Age. Their first album and Songs for the Deaf are both classic.

Movies: I think my favorite director is Kevin Smith. He's such a good writer and is able to get so much out of the actors he works with. I even enjoyed Jersey Girls a little. lol I'm also a sucker for period pieces. The Godfather Parts 1 and 2, of course being the ultimate there. And the occasional action movie is always therapeutic. What kind of person would I be to NOT enjoy 300. And I'm a huge horror fan. The Thing Army of Darkness is probably my all time favorite horror movies.

I could seriously go on and on about movies.

Also, I'm not much of a TV watcher, but I do keep up with Heroes, Fringe and Burn Notice religiously.

Might as well also throw out that I'm an avid reader of books too. Currently reading House of Leaves.

I would also like to thank you for the warm welcome. Mighty kind of you.

[Strong]

Hello there. I'm strong414bad, and even though I have a number in the middle of my name I happen to not be a completely unintelligent fool. I made Mario fangames for a little while over at MFGG but eventually decided that I could do better than making Mario seem "epic" and thus decided to make a completely original game.

Unfortunately, I'm a bit lazy and said game has yet to be started.

Anyways, I use MMF2 for my assorted game-makings and I also make Youtube Poops (but the good kind that rape your ears, not the bad kind that use CD-i.)

So... yeah. I'm here and I hope to stay for a while and all that good stuff.