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[OMGAlec]

Hey.

(I'm horrible with introductions.)

I'm a repeat lurker of many forums.  This is pretty much the first time I've posted to a forum in about five years.  I like this place though, the average post length pleases me greatly and it's not hard to find an interesting and intellectual conversation on here (Compared to the usual drivel I find in most online communities anyway)

On the subject of independent gaming, I wish I were more involved, though I am starting to merge my two disciplines together in the form of making games; something I haven't done since back in highschool with The Games Factory.  Since then I've spent two years studying IT, three years as a graphic design major, and all throughout as a programmer and web designer.  Shameless plug for seldom updated blog:  http://www.omgalec.com  (The design of which was wholy done by me)

I spent about four years running campaigns using my own Pen and Paper roleplaying system.  My players all spoke highly of my storytelling ability and the spark of gamedesign brought back those good feelings I had when making 2d platformers with TGF.  Now, I try to use the knowledge I've learned through years of meandering into and out of different disciplines and craft something enjoyable.

I think I've finally found a community in which I could feel at home.

Nice ta meetcha   

[godsavant]

By day, usually, I am an elementary school teacher. Tif teaches kids with emotional and behavioral disorders. We run a small record label in our spare time, and we have a band devoted to making weird, dorky, noisy pop. I started making games because I wanted to distribute little video games with some of our songs.

You, Kyle, are a maverick. Welcome.

I spent about four years running campaigns using my own Pen and Paper roleplaying system.  My players all spoke highly of my storytelling ability and the spark of gamedesign brought back those good feelings I had when making 2d platformers with TGF.  Now, I try to use the knowledge I've learned through years of meandering into and out of different disciplines and craft something enjoyable.

I think I've finally found a community in which I could feel at home.

Nice ta meetcha  

This guy sounds pretty cool; I've tried developing game design skills w/ tabletop RPGs, but it always deteriorates into hilarity.

[desertdweller]

Well, might as well start here...

Hello everyone, my name is Josh.  I'm from Arizona, and am 16 years old.

When I was 11 years old I began tooling around with Game Maker, and made some very simple games by myself over the next three years.

I then joined the Game Maker Community, but have become less active as of late.  Over the years I have begun many projects, most of which are so lacking in structure that I won't post them here.  My main struggle with game development is the designing aspect--I get too anxious with my undeveloped ideas, try to throw a game together, and then drop it within a couple of weeks once I don't know what to do next.  Repeat.

However, over this past year, I've learned to overcome that, and am now actively developing an educational game called Definitive Defense.  In short, it's a tower defense game where whether or not a shot hits depends on if the player answers a vocabulary question correctly.  The player is given a definition, and must choose which of the four possible words given is best defined by said definition.

Over the past several months a couple of friends and I have been running the GameCOG Community, which is meant to be a site where developers and post projects and blog about development without the hassle of creating their own site.

Just recently I've been looking to write some music of my own.  I've been tooling around with MadTracker 2.

So I guess that's me.

EDIT:  What in the world is up with this Manbaby stuff?  Are you guys trying to scare away newbies around here?

[Phil A]

Hello. Like many, I've been lurking for a while and enjoying reading older posts to see what people are working on. I live in London where I write financial trading software by day. I find game programming to be a wonderful hobby which takes me far away from the tedium.

My tastes are mainly arcade games, especially 'traditional' shmups. I've recently been over indulging in the Wii Virtual Console where I can finally play all the great PC Engine titles I missed out on as a kid.

As for achievements, my total output to date consists of a scrolling starfield for the BBC Micro and an unfinished, though somewhat playable, Space Invaders clone that I called "Rubbish Invaders" (screenshot with bad particle effects below). As for the future, I had hoped to avoid naive ambition yet I've convinced myself that I can make a shmup. I just hope I don't have to christen it "Rubbish R-Type"!

[Brandorf]

Howdy, I'm a developer who now lives in the Midwest after graduating from Full Sail with Mr. Chocolatebear.

My tastes are varied, but I have a very strong affinity for retro themed games, especially ones with good chiptune styled music.  The first PC game I played at any length was Tyrian which I have still been known to obsess over.

I actually cut my programming teeth on an old TI 99/4a home computer.  Cartridge and cassette based, keying in BASIC programs thousand of lines long with no real text editor to speak of, and having to save out to cassette tape, then pray it loads again. It was dated even when I started messing with it, that only made it cheaper to get software and parts for it.

I tend to be very critical of my own work, I don't really show any of the work I did before full sail, both because it would be embarrassing, and because none of it exists anymore (though I do have some tapes that have a text adventure I wrote for the TI, heh).  I worked on Task Manager (www.teamrecursive.com), which by far is some of my best work to date.

[MrChocolateBear]

Welcome to the forums Brandorf!
I hope to see a lot of you around here!

[Fulgore]

OK so i think its my turn, ... rigth?

here i go

Im Colombian, and i like games a lot, im studing System Engineering, well thats how the College (Universidad de Antioquia) calls it, but a lot of people think like i do, that it is Software Engineering (o and i think Greender is with me in this), but thats ok. Oooo and mi name is Daniel, so thats me.

I had my first game experience with Atari 2600, and I remember the most, this part of it,



losing to mi brother (I’m like the white one, but with 0-8 score, im the 0)

Next i got the NES, and play this like hell


here in latin america we called it Goal 3, but the real name is Nekketsu Kōkō Dodgeball Bu: Soccer Hen

then the Super NES, where i buy this awesome game



then a N64 where I played Star Fox, 007, Mario Cart, and FIFA, with 2 friends on a 32 inches TV, the best multiplayer of all times. Next I changed the N64 for a PS where I meet the Kojima master piece (I know you know). Afther that a PS2 and no more.

i think thats all. See ya on the forums.

[Colon Semicolon]

I don't remember much about myself these days. I'm too tired and nerve-racked to get much further than I like robots, shows about them, and I have a goal in life i wanna fulfill.

It has something to do with these cool dudes, but right now I dunno if I'll ever get where I can do anything with them. only time will tell!

My favorite game is in my signature, and you'd be best to go out and give it a play sometime. gotta love 2D mech games!

[puddinlover]

Hi my name is Justin and I'm 18 years old.

I'm a moderator for DZone and an avid programmer.

I first got into games back on the NES but I really started to game hardcore when WoW first came out.  I lost countless hours of my life to that game.  After I got bored at 60 I thought "Hey why don't I make an mmorpg".  Well unlike others I never really gave up and even have a few years of CIS courses under my belt.  I plan to go to college in the fall and major in CS.  Though I'm not currently developing a mmorpg it is what got me interested in programming and within the past year or so I have really taken programming seriously.  One day I will make a mmorpg though...

If anyone cares I have a lot of in-depth posts about myself (look for my early posts) on my programming blog which I post on very frequently.  CodeJustin.com

(I will edit this post later, just wrote a quick little bio for now)

[akuryo]

Hello!

To make it short, I'm a programmer.

This my language path through programming :

12 : AS2,basic
13 : using AS2 mainly
13 : xhtml,css,php,mysql
14 : python,perl,javascript
15 : C / C++
16 : staying on C++
17(today) : still on C++. Getting some cool asm skills too.


I almost used to try 3D modeling, pixel art, and the photoshop skills I'm developing since i'm 12/13 makes me a pretty good photoshoper. I already designs some posters, for theater, music festivals, website design...etc.

You can see that i got interested in lots of things, deep or not.

But my artistic talents are still low, i can do pretty neat stuff in photoshop, but don't count on me for drawing, and my pixel art skills are very low.


So, i hope I'll be of any help in this community, i just had to take a look in some thread to be very attracted by this forum. 

[TakeV]

Hello, world.

If that didn't get it away, I'm a programmer.

I first started about 8 years ago, with good old DarkBASIC, wanting to create the ZOMG BEST MMORPG EVER! Fortunately, I'm a tiny bit wiser presently.

Currently, I'm working on two project, an XNA game for the 360, and an RPG with the other editors over at TVTropes. Also, I am learning a bit of the iPhone development platform.

I can sort of do art, but I'm not very good at it.

Hmm, as for games, the first one I ever played was wolfenstein 3D, at the ripe old age of 1.5, with my dad.
Didn't actually own a console until the N64 era, but before that, I must say my favorite games were Sonic CD and Yoshi's Island. King's Quest 6 and 7 were pretty awesome as well, and I'm just now discovering the joys of Quest for Glory.

I guess that is all.

[robertogracia]

Hi,

My name is Rob and I did play a lot of games in my days..in the Spectrum, title like The Hobbit, Trashman, Manic Miner, Jet pack..and a gazillion others. Then I moved on to the Amiga and another trizillion games flew by and I had a blast with them.
After all that I started working as I had finished my formal education as an architect so I was managing building sites and tradesmen to get buildings built. As a side note I learned of to weld, pour concrete, drive a bulldozer, some industrial carpentry and how to manufacture reinforcing steel bars so I could earn some more extra money on weekends.
Later I re-discovered 3d applicacions so I started creating architectural visualizations which I found a little tad dull after some years so I  started doing character work, animations and special effects.
These days I am considering creating games just because as a hobby I have learned c++ to a high standard and I know how to do art already..but we'll see about that.
I would like to have a dog at some point of my life as I haven't had one yet.
So that's me...

Happy to be here with you all

[Lemming]

This is me solving a Rubik's cube.

   

My name's Peter Boström, and I live in Stockholm, Sweden.
You know, where there are polar bears walking on the streets.

I am an artist and wannabe programmer.

I am a programmer and wannabe artist.

Practice makes perfect.

Started with UnrealScript and made some modifications to UT2004, in which I made a remote goo mine launcher. http://lemming.ceri.se/tigdump/goonade.jpg

Went on to learn 'real' programming, with C++, I made some pig-latin like apps, some basic 3d model viewers etc. Hung out in some programming channel and intercepted awesome. Ditched java in programming class and did a (crappy) Blokus clone in C++.

Wanted to learn to program in just C, so I wrote a fast, simple guitar hero clone using C, SDL and libvorbis as a graduation project thing in what'd be 12th grade (gymnasiet here in sweden). I think this was about when Guitar Hero 3 was released for the PC with recommended specs above Crysis, which I thought was BS. http://lemming.ceri.se/tigdump/ttfaf.png (either old screenshot or capped FPS...)

Still using C, and love it. (lower-level faggotry)


So, how did I get into gaming?

We had a 386-based computer when I was younger, and I loved playing games like Nibbles, Pinball Fantasies and Lemmings (duh?). Managed to finish ~one tier in Lemmings. My two favorite babysitters both enjoyed gaming and they used to play through this awesome game Prince of Persia.

I was too scared to play this myself at the time (traps and screaming when he falls, etc.), but I loved watching them play it. The game is simply stunning.

   

Over the years I've gathered a Game Boy Pocket, GBA, SNES, PSX, N64, PS2 and an Xbox 360, had a Wii.

I love far more games than I could possibly fit into something that anyone would want to read.

beatmania IIDX is awesome.

A few years I got back into retro gaming. I played through games like Another World and working on Flashback, and finally I was brave enough to play through Prince of Persia. Actually gotten pretty good at the latter. Doom is one of the coolest retro games ever. Also I've played through Lemmings and up to the last tier of its expansion. Good games, play them.

Along came Cave Story, (like for everyone else), and changed my world. Someone was releasing one of the best games I've ever played, solely developed out of pure love for the game itself. This shines through in almost every aspect of the game. 

(I do still enjoy commercial games too)

I'm not interested in making large-company games made for profit, this is why indie games is right up my alley. This is not a kick in the face against indie developers going commercial, it's not about the money. To me indie games are developed through experimenting with new ideas, and developers being devoted to their creations.


tl;dr: Programmer, wannabe artist, I love you all.

Will read this whole thread.


Edit: And also, I hang out at #tigIRC

[moonmagic]

We had a 386-based computer when I was younger, and I loved playing games like Nibbles, Pinball Fantasies and Lemmings (duh?). Managed to finish ~one tier in Lemmings. My two favorite babysitters both enjoyed gaming and they used to play through this awesome game Prince of Persia.

I love the first Prince of Persia game. I like the scale of it (one hour to play!) and it has such epic encounters.

Welcome to the board!

[Lemming]

I love the first Prince of Persia game. I like the scale of it (one hour to play!) and it has such epic encounters.

Welcome to the board!

Yeah, the concept "takes one hour, no loading for more time" is really good. The fat guard at level 6.

Thanks!