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[richy486]

Hi,

My name is richy and I'm a programmer. My first games were made in GW basic, just text adventures. One of them i totally ruined because i finished what I was doing, loaded another program, forgot something and went back to the first (but forgot to load it), changed one line and hit enter then saved, so my game had only one line. I felt stupid.

Later I got into klik n play. I made a bunch of games in that. Some top down shooters, some platformers. I spent all my spare time on them. I put them on the net later on, I think they are still there. It was very easy to put a game together quickly, sometimes we would try to come up with a game in an hour.

I then did an arts diploma, but i sucked at that so I went to Uni and did comp sci. Where i learnt all about c++/java and re made one of the klik n play games, among other small projects.

Then I got a job as a games programmer where I worked on PSP, Wii, DS, PC and iPhone titles. Now im working in web development but I still enjoy making and designing games.

I want to create simple, easy to learn, hard to master games. I'm pretty interested in the iPhone at the moment. But I also really like XNA to program for but it's more difficult to publish. My favorite games are Mario platformers (world is my favorite), half life series, street fighter series, galaga, the sierra adventure games, GTA series and metal gear series. I like to code in c# and c++ the most, i like visual studio alot (i use intellisense as a crutch).

I started a business called Vorticity to publish iPhone games and thats what I'm doing now.

Thanks for reading,
richy

[gemstonedragon.com]

Hello, I'm Konstantinos from Greece, and if you 've heard anything bad about Greece lately it' all lies  We only have beautiful islands and sunny weather here. That's the only truth. 

So, I think I have always being a game developer since I am a programmer by profession. My first game was a text based RPG with a GUI back in 2001. Really cool and innovative stuff which actually never sold though  I mean who would not like a text RPG with GUI 

Anyway, I am into flash game development now. I think that is the best platform for games today and easily distributed. Actionscript 3 is really powerful although flash games are still considered casual. I would like to play more desktop quality games on Flash.

My best games ever are Bioware's Baldur's Gate, Icewind Dale and Planescape Torment. I also played a lot of Morrowind but the spirit of those games could never be captured in any of the following titles. Maybe I am just a Baldur's Gate junkie. Who knows?

I have made a bit of a shameless post (in the Announcements thread) about my latest game but I have put a lot of work and effort to it and I am anxious to get some feedback about it (good or bad) and get people to try it.

I think I am much more interested in the developer and technical threads in this forum especially on new platforms and technologies. I would never try to make something that somebody else has already done. This is what I think.

[Styg]

Hi,

My name is Dejan and I have a passion for computer games, both playing them and designing/programming them. I've started game programming by learning QBasic, then moving onto C++, and now I'm coding in C# with XNA.

I'm a professional programmer. I currently work in the banking software industry, on things such as SOA, DB and integration. But my long term plan is to go full-time indie.

My current project is Timelapse Vertigo, an RPG.

Thanks for reading and I'll see you guys around.

[Deadheat]

Howdy.

I'm Troy, I develop games in my spare time (which i never seem to have enough of) and do a bit of pixel art, that I hide away on my hard drive. Love the old school retro games with Game Maker being my weapon of choice. One day I plan to make an awesome game and hopefully learn how to do something productive in Flash! Until then, I've got some stuff at http://dead-heat.com and a devlog for my latest game Mission Extreme 2 http://supermissionextreme.com That's about it I'd say.

Thanks guys!

[Barefists]

I realized I haven't fulfilled my obligations yet, so here I go.

Name:	Zhou Xuanming
Nickname:	Barefists
Age:	26
Country:	Singapore
Websites:	http://xmashed.com/ - My indie game portfolio. http://ludicwr.ath.cx/ - Research blog for my work at the university. http://indiereview.tk/ - My humble indie game review site.
Games that changed my life:	Landstalker.  I love this game.  Its awesome blend of exploration, battle and adventure filled so much of my childhood.  I never really beat it until I was much older though. Street Fighter II: World Warrior.  I remember eagerly waiting for days I could visit my grandma so I could play this game on my uncle's (who was living with my grandma) SNES. Counter-Strike Beta 1.5.  Although I played all the later versions, I couldn't forget the days when I used to play this with my buddies.  Awesome fun back then, we would skip classes just to play CS. Magic: The Gathering.  All my lunch money spent on this game, which eventually led to me developing gastric problems I suffer till this day.  Ah, I love how games ruin my life. Final Fantasy VII.  Possibly the most influential game in my life is this one.  It showed me what a game could be, and nurtured my lifelong fascination with the medium.
Day Jobs:	Doing my Masters degree in the National University of Singapore. I also moonlight as a game designer in Boomzap Entertainment for some extra cash.
Games:	(Click on the links for some extra information, they are not direct download links) Wiip (2007) Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Labs.  Game Designer. Flash 8. Constellation (2007) Independent.  Game Designer, Programmer and Artist.  Game Maker 7. Pangaea (2008) Independent.  Game Designer and Programmer.  Game Maker 7. Trivium (2009) Independent.  Game Designer and Programmer.  Acknex 3D Game Studio A7. (Warning: Experimental game requiring 3 players in front of the same screen + a controller.)

[RobertoK]

Ok, here it goes!
My name is Roberto Koci. I have been messing with computer since the times of Commodore and Spectrum.
First, back in those times, I was eager to destroy an incredible amount of joysticks to beat all the games I had time to play. As time passed by I started wondering how do people make this stuff? What does it takes to make an actual game? Do I need to meditate for years to have a revelation and become a master game-dev guru?
Well, the answer was simpler than that, but it had a cost.
You just need to have some ideas and sit down and learn. Learn and assimilate data like crazy. Test it. Check it. And then loose 2 weeks on a bug that you have absolutely no idea how to solve...
Indie game development comes at a high price. You need to set aside your friends sometimes, you need to learn every day, sacrifice the Saturday evening to check out how to make the shaders in your project work on older graphics cards...
But, on the other hand, you are free to be creative, explore new horizons, check out what is new in the industry and "be your own boss". It's not easy. No one told so.
Will you take the red or the blue pill?
I took the red one. I want to see how deep the rabbit hole goes! 

[hareball]

Hi Everyone.. I should introduce myself here as it seems like a pretty friendly place.

My name is Dan, I'm from a place near Canberra in Aus. I live with my partner and we have a 2 year old girl. I work full time as a DB dev, so I don't get a lot of time to do what I love. I'm a night owl.

I started programming games about 6 months ago, to try and cure myself from playing them. I guess that logic is flawed from the start, so perhaps I'm well suited to programming!

Anyway, I've started a devlog for the game I've been working on.
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=12074.0

Cheers,
Dan

[The Monster King]

Ok this is going to be the best introduce yourself, how it doesn't get its own topic is a mystery also respect of you people's mysterious customs

So I am the Monster King. This means that when you see a monster, i am its king. Monsters include things with really long horns, with cool teeth and a lot of hair. They do not include vampires because those are gay (i mean the gay as in happy as i am sensitive of homosexuality which is a thing that also happens among monsters though for different reasons because usually we have trouble determining what is our gender due to all the horns and which one is not exactly a horn and so. Me i'm ok i know i'm a guy so i'm a king it's all right (i am not a homosexual though i like womensters (that's a pun on women and monsters))

i think a ) is expected but what is this, a programming window? Well i'm no artist, my talents are in the game design and the program of the ing, but i'm not like a guy with twelve thousand phDs, i just have an infinite technician's... technical? whatever you guys from the US call it

*Warning* i come from the land of fishes... Phil fishes *Warning*

Ok so i am a guy who wants to make games since he is three years old. I am now a little more than seven times this age so i hope three year old me isn't angry about how long that took, i was even less patient back then! One day i decided that RPG Maker was a solution and i made RPGs on it and never finished them. I played a lot of all kinds of games so i really don't know what games to mention here, like everything except sports and driving because that is SO CASUAL
I guess there's one game i really feel like mentioning and it's E.V.O. Search for Eden because that's the story of a small fish that becomes a lion with bull horns and rhinoceros skin because humans kinda suck in that game and they defeat aliens
DEFEATING ALIENS IS COOL even though i really like them they're cool guys when not invading earth
in a way they are monsters... after all...

Ok so one day i met this guy he was like Hagrid and he told me, you're a Game Maker, Ren (my name is Renaud it is pronounced Ren-OH it's a name fit for a king, people call me Renaud or Ren when they don't call me The Monster King or just Monster (in french or english (yes people really call me Monster (parenthesises are sweet))))
his name was Frankie, you might know him for being like the best pixel artist on the earth let me plug his website http://frankiesmileshow.com/

anyways so he's all, fuck RPG Maker that is for little persons and even though you're not as tall as me because i am a FUCKING GIANT you're tall enough

-=Fucking Giants, HP: 1200, Mp: 0 Atk: 22 def: 3 Sex: 9999=-
==giants that attack with their high sex drive==
==item drops: giant like in feet instead of inches dildo==
==weakness: nutkick element(or ovarykick if giant is female)==

man ovarykick must hurt but i wouldn't know, i just got this pair o' balls

so yeah Frankie is all, learn Game Maker so i'm all ok
I touched some programming that isn't RPG maker before but it was like, a fleeting soft caress and maybe microworlds, which is like porn for children if we follow my precedent analogy where programming is sexual (which most of us should believe it is) but i suppose it was an important stepping stone in my development even though it kinda sucked
like it had an engine of 12 Hz or something i don't really know how that works like i said i'm no superexpert on prog i just do it

so i learn game maker and realize that it is fun but i never get around to finishing a game yet it is better

one day Frankie and I decide to make a game, he is skilled in Grafix AND Pro-gramming (determining PROFESSIONALLY how many grams the electrons of your game weigh (that's now how physics work))

so we make in 3 hours because of the poppenkast

ok it's important to say that since i met Frankie, maybe a bit before i saw a few things here and there on the net, i am a big netter for internets but Frankie sort of introduced me to the communities, like he's big on GamingWorld where they make B-balls, and he showed me this and Dwarf Fortress and shit and also the Poppenkast

so it's this competition and Frankie is an artistic pixeler so he's all let's make it only in 4 colors that is so cool and i'm all sure whatever so we make the game about a fish it is my first finished game but it's 3 hours long and done with a dude so i'm all you know it's not that cool

i'm kinda shy to come out, make my game-making coming out to these forums where like-minded people accept me whilst the rest of the society simply cannot understand my choice

but

what they don't know is... it's not a choice... you're born a G-Macker (Game Maker but cooler)
oh also we have a friend he is funny his name is Lurdiak, he did sound effects and the goofy song which is the only thing that finnsworth is known for i think

so Frankie comes up one day and coincidentially its my birthday so he shoots his load in my face and by that i mean copies data from his USB drive to my desktop and it's a curious EXE and turns out it's a virus and i can't ever use a computer again cuz its contagious

hhheh did you see that twist coming whops i'm trolling you it was A GAME happy birthday me wow Franks you really drew me ugly

but the game was really fun and had cool SFX made by Lurdiak and all you can download it on his site

so i'm all DAMN me make a game

ok so now in case you didn't realize it i'm a giant-egomegalomaniac, i am a king and it shows, my zodiac is Leo which is the name of a guy, also it means Lion which is the king of the animals, he has a cool mane like i do because long hair is awesome, i also like really long hair in girls but short too??? not too short though! i like hair, but not hair hair, hair
i liked this hippie once and she had hair hair
she was blonde so it wasn't that bad
she really didn't like me though, so goes life
so yeah i'm all GOTTA MAKE A GAME AND FINISH IT and since i have an ego the size of the sun because my ego IS the sun in case you did not notice the resemblance (we are both made of superheated hydrogen and helium)

so most of my games like maybe half maybe more are like about me and my friends that is so cheesy, but cheese is delicious, mushrooms too but you can't say that, mushroomy

but i never EVER finished them though i'm on to a good start but that's a spoiler now

and me and Lurdiak we're all OK let's do a game for Frankie for is b-b-b-bday

at first we're all OK GO LETS DO IT THIS WEEK HIS BIRTHDAY IS IN 8 DAYS and then WOOPS WE'RE LATE DO THIS and then suddenly it's all FUCK IT'S BEEN ONE YEAR
so Lurdiak is kinda angry with me and i'm angry with me too, but things happen and i have school (he doesn't that slacker) and we're all fucka-fuck-fuck

but like just this winter suddenly it's like the pantheon of game making gods smile upon me (i think it's like Derek Yu seriously that guy ALWAYS smiles and Tarn Adams because that guy ALWAYS works i'm not sure who else to include you guys that made 1 game or more are probably cool enough to be small gods) and BAM i mack a gam with the energy of poodles (they are an energetic dog)
but suddenly it is the depression and like i need a job and a shave, so i get the shave but job-hunting goes bad
and then impending Frank-B-Day

so i look at what i have for his last year game

and i'm all HHHEH fuck this it'll take way too long
Lurdiak is all Fuck You
i'm all no Fuck You i'm making a smaller game and you're making me fucking sound effects for it and a song and i'm getting Chef goddamn Boyardee to make music for it

Chef Boyardee is an internet friend's of Frankie and he is best known for making Barkley: Shut up and Jam Gaiden and its music, seriously the guy is a genius chiptuner even though B-ball game didn't have chiptunes really but he makes sort of both (chiptunes and tunetunes)

so i contact him secretely through mysterious channels, it's worth noting i tried to do that last year but since we game-crashed he did one song and i didn't ask for more because i felt so bad

but now finally i made it. i made frankie's B-day game for saturday

and like a nubile pokémon i change shape from a lurker to what i hope will be a regular poster, because my condition to myself for involving me in this community which i read (i know all your secrets seriously) frequently was to make a game, myself, no Frank-crutches

so yeah not to sell hotdogs but http://www.mediafire.com/?jed1nwomdzy play my gatdamn fuckin game it comes with a free demo with a time limit of infinite and the full version costs one million monsterdollars which can only be traded in comments but words are worth a lot so you guys should be ok also i might update it once in a while

i think i've said a lot, maybe not everything but i hope i was one of the longest non-Paul-Eres introductions (i just wanted to say something cool about a poster you guys know but i didn't really read Paul's intro so maybe it was like 3 words, like, Paul Eres. Game.)

To finish i will put in the lamest teaser pic ever made by the hand of man (technically me, i keep spare man hands in my fridge, it's like saying ever made by a pen) before doing a cool bio thing for those who don't like to read


so yeah notice how it's me in there, like my avatar but unstretched because apparently i suck at formatting avatars, the other three are cool friends to whom you will never talk to, but you know whatever they're the men i like the most in the world and i'm making a game where we beat stuff up and i hope you guys will enjoy it anyway and that there will be personality in it or whatev
oh yeah what's written is "Boucherville est entre bonnes mains" which is "Boucherviller is in good hands" it's a shitty suburb near my shitty suburb and the subject of many jokes

ok cool bio time

Name: Renaud "The Monster King" Cormier
Real Name: The Monster King
Race: A monster
Gender: M... for monster (i am being hilarious by repeating myself)
Favorite food: there are so many things i like to eat it would be quicker to just say i hate olives and raw tomatoes(any other form is cool) i really like weird meats and seafood i guess
Favorite game: fuck this there are 10000 good games but E.V.O. is worth mentioning i'll stop before i name 10000
Favorite genres: Maybe this is easier, i'm a competitive fighting game player and i play pokémon too, as the Monster King i've played ALL OF ITS CLONES EVER and enjoyed at least half but only pokémon has the inching of balance i look for. I used to play RPGs a lot, now it's here and there, i still like strategy RPGs though because i am a giant robot fan and that's how they happen in Japan, in strategy rpgs, and i don't mean Front Mission sissiness i mean Super Robot Wars, i like pretty much everything inbetween i mentionned, platformers and shmups are cool and beat 'em ups hold that special place in my heart because you play them with friends (friends are cool stuff)
Likes: games, game music, gameboys and game girls hhheh just wanted to plug game girls in there as a joke, not really a fan of gameboys even though i have both a DS and a PSP, speaking of girls i like redheads and i noticed you guys have a game-making redhead so The Ivy i am your creepiest fan because best fan and most handsome fan are probably already taken
i'm also Derek's creepiest fan, if you were a girl derek i would marry you no matter how many times you would ask "who are you"
i also like eating food a lot and long walks on the beach, and they don't really have to be on the beach but now i think i'm gonna be quoting XKCD or some other comic joke but like i walk for HOURS at a time sometimes through Montréal mostly (it's close to where i live a mysterious suburb that sucks) so they have to be long, i like animals a lot, like i know EVERY ANIMAL if you start arguing with me about animals that is an error, that is like arguing with a monkey about bananas and monkeys really like bananas and know all bananas by heart, well i know every animal, tiny and huge (refraining from your mom joke) like the manatee (whoops too late(w...was that meta)) and i love them and i am really insulted when people don't believe in evolution (it happens) to me it's a bit like saying my black friend is not intelligent because he's black like nice going insult all my eleventy thousand billion friends at the same time i guess DNA is just for show
er sorry i hope i didn't offend your religion for those who carry one, giant robots, cool heroes, cool monsters, hero monsters, giant monsters, giant robo-monsters, small robo-monsters(they are cute)
also i liked super joe what happened to him
oh yeah i like to write too in case you didn't notice
dislikes: vampires (they don't count. except for one), being lazy, bad stories, not being in the spotlight (did i mention my ego), i think i had a pretty good one 12 minutes ago but i forgot, so now i will dislike injustice
Skillz: i am a beginner animator and a shitty pixel artist, i'm an okay-ish programmer and i'm a crazy(yeah. you decide) writer. I write a lot. It's better in french though.


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for those who really don't like to read:

HELLO I AM THE MONSTER KING A MONSTER I WANT TO MAKE A LOT OF GAMES PLEASE PLAY MY GAMES AND I WILL PLAY YOURS AND IF tHE GAME IS GOOD I WILL REFRAIN FROM DERIVING NUTRITION FROM YOUR CHILDREN THAT IS EATING THEM BUT WHEN I SAY THAT PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS WHAT YOU PERVERT THAT IS SEXUAL DISGUSTING AND I AM ALL NO NO I JUST WANT TO COOK AND DEVOUR THEM AND YET STILL I GET THE WEIRD LOOKS BUT WHEN I EXPLAIN IT IS JUST STOMACH AND BOWELS ITS USUALLY OK

[davidp]

is this a wall of text or what

[Guillaume]

I love him already. 

[moi]

Please go to the "general" forum and engage in a debate at once!

[Jamie_D]

Hi!

So my name is Jamie, I'm a games artist at Tt-fusion in the Uk and Iv been browsing this forum for a while now and had a interest in indie games for even longer then that.
I myself am looking to become part of this community more and eventually work on some projects.

My fav games include doom, wipeout 2097, sonic 2 sparkster to name a few and whilst i do play more modern games, id say that that i am actually more interested in games development, culture and of course the indie scene then I am the next halo or gears of war.


Anyway, you can catch me on Twitter here:

http://twitter.com/uk_resistant

and can check out my portfolio here:

www.jamesdegen.blogspot.com


Cheers!

[soulframe]

Hi guys, I am a Chinese gamemaker with my game Rainblood here.


The RPG "Rainblood-town of death(雨血-死镇）" is made with RPGmakerXP but without any of the default materials, I finished it 3 years ago. It was released in China in 2008 and has been downloaded for about half M times. Now I begin to translate the game into English and hopefully it can be released within a month, so it is good to show it here a little bit.

In the game I produced all the characters, paronomas, battlers and icons with ALL HAND DRAWING, to control the style to what I want, the expression is a cold, dark and free hand drawing style.

Though using a 2d engine, the game made an extrem use of RPGmaker, and with a lot of original script making additional effects which help to use only paronomas as maps. The story is composed by myself, telling a short but complex plot and a dramatic love story with darkness, in a background of traditional Chinese Martial world but with many weird stuff such as a strange samurai without head and machine-like killers. The total time in story is just one day and space is in a deserted town, but I played the story with montage and disordered story telling lines, making it nearer to an art piece.

















And also the 2nd game, Rainblood2-City of Flame is under production, with a continuing story. The effect is trying to approch a 2d quality of Playstation era. Here is the link of its trailer:
http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTUyNTc4MTY4.html

And after all, you are always welcomed to visit my website:
http://www.rain-blood.com  to see the new process of the 2nd game and the English version.

[BinaryMind]

@The Monster King:

So just how long have you been lurking on this site? You seemed to hit too many notes for you to stumble on this site and post this manifesto. Anyway, looking forward to your future contributions.

[The Monster King]

uh

i don't know really

i think i know tigSource since uh

damn

like there's probably a part where i knew tigSource but never checked the forums just the frontpage and then i was all whoa there's more games inside here and people talk about stuff that are good to waste my time, man it's at least one year probably two

no fuck this i have been lurking here since the first compo i remember reading about some of the games and trying out Pencerkoff's game with awesome grafffix, the blood god one (Pencerkoff is one of my favorites posters) don't worry dudes i tried out a lot more i just don't remember them all, maybe enraged rocket house and i was enraged you didn't play as the rocket house

hey when you say future contributions do you mean that my current contributions suck because really i'd like any feedback on the game i've posted but so far i've got like more comments on my intro and that's sort of not really the point and i mean if you think my game sucks just out and tell me but tell me why i don't mind
if you have no idea what i'm talking about i sort of waited until i made a game that was worthy of other human hands so do give it a try and don't skip it just 'cuz of the grafix what is this the nvidia boards

[pepprsam]

Hello there.

My name is Matt Cangelosi and I'm an animation student.  
Although my main passion is working in film and for TV, I like making graphics for games as well.

My first memories of games was playing Mario Bros. on the NES.  The best time I've ever had with games was, however, with the SNES:  Mega Man X and Super Mario World are my favorite games of all time.  Platforming is still my most beloved gaming genre to this day. 

I've worked on a few small games for fun, but never released them to the internet (with one exception - but it was rather embarrassing so I won't mention it).  My biggest problem with making independent games is programming them; I am quite able to do so, but I really find it draining.  Making animations is what I'm really passionate about.

[Barefists]

Hello there.

My name is Matt Cangelosi and I'm an animation student. 
Although my main passion is working in film and for TV, I like making graphics for games as well.

Awesome.  Welcome!

[P-Dude]

Hello everybody!

I've been using this site's main page for a while, and finally decided to venture into the forums. I figured now would be as good a time as any, since my friend and I are making our own game at the moment, which should be done in the summer for the ever-popular Xbox Indie Games Channel. (more details at a later time!)

Can't wait to start meandering around the forums!

[OneMoreGo]

I thought i'd already posted here, but it seems not so...

My name is Darren, I live in Scotland and work as a programmer. i've always enjoyed writing games. I often find it more fun writing a game than playing one. I've not publicly released any games except a simple "snake" type game a looong time ago. Like many of you I write games for multiple reasons:

I have a cool idea I want to bring to life
I am inspired by another game and want to try to make a better version of it (yeah,  right!)
I miss an old game (I still have plans for a game with Materia, and a Carnage Heart remake)
I want to play with some new tech or practice something.

Translating to finished games the difficult thing, usually due to finding it very difficult to find artists, particularly for unpaid work. The other aspect is once i've achieved what I want I tend to lose interest and all that is left are a million small jobs that aren't fun.

 

[DuoX10]

Hi everybody,

I'm Luiz, or just DuoX10. For now, I'm just working with a 'starting now' (some months ago) Flash developing game team, for a public game development por schools, for children. Yeah, sounds weird. Well, but as a project for college, I'm wanting to develop a game, so I just registred here and pretend to follow what I can follow, learn a lot and maybe help.

But working with games (design or programming) is my very dream. But I just do not have the creativity to do so, I mean, create a new design is my weak point.

Well, thats it...'till then!