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[Robert]

Hi there, I'm Robert from the other side of the world AKA New Zealand. Any day now I'm going to post in the VGNG thread with the name that the team I'm with has chosen, that is to say once we work out what we're doing!

Anyway, I'm a coder, came up through Uni with a comp sci degree, then got a great start in the industry by getting a job with Sidhe Interactive and worked there for a few years on Rugby League, its sequel, and Melbourne Cup Challenge. Then my brother (also a Sidhe boy) and a co-worker left the mothership and founded our own games company, Wandering Monster Studios which any day now is going to release The Next Big Thing. Well, at least once we get time off from doing websites to pay the bills.

I also do other geeky things like playing boardgames, some wargaming, avoiding going outside, etc etc.

[Radnom]

Hi there, I'm Robert from the other side of the world AKA New Zealand. Any day now I'm going to post in the VGNG thread with the name that the team I'm with has chosen, that is to say once we work out what we're doing!

Anyway, I'm a coder, came up through Uni with a comp sci degree, then got a great start in the industry by getting a job with Sidhe Interactive and worked there for a few years on Rugby League, its sequel, and Melbourne Cup Challenge. Then my brother (also a Sidhe boy) and a co-worker left the mothership and founded our own games company, Wandering Monster Studios which any day now is going to release The Next Big Thing. Well, at least once we get time off from doing websites to pay the bills.

I also do other geeky things like playing boardgames, some wargaming, avoiding going outside, etc etc.

Always good to hear about other NZ game programmers :D and working with Sidhe is pretty impressive..

Your site doesn't give away too much information... whereabouts in NZ are you?

[Erik Svedäng]

I hope you're Swedish.

Yes, I am.

[dustin]

Hey I'm dustin.

I'm a Computer Science student living in the san fransisco bay area.  I like to code with c++/sdl and more recently java/slick.  I also like coding for the DS using c/PAlib.  Anyway I just joined because I'm entering the new competition but I love indie gaming in general and so will probably be sticking around.

I also like comics, juggling, footbag, arcades, and a bunch of other dorky stuff...

[aeiowu]

Hey Tiggers!  I guess I should introduce myself.  I've been lurking for quite a bit, and don't have time to pump a post count up to a respectable level, so my posting will probably be infrequent, but I love this community, it's made of awesome.

So I'm Greg, I'm 24, live in Iowa, look like I'm 34 and co-founded intuition games with three other chaps (ted, mike & josh) in the fall of 2007.


Me not paying 0.25 per minute to play shitty battlefield clones in the Denver airport on the way to GDC 08!


Ted, me & infinity.


all of us in our hotel room in SF

As far as games I've worked on, it's mainly dinowaurs, i've done some simulation stuff with the U3 engine for a virtual reality thing at Iowa State University.  I've also done a few projects during school that amounted to no game (due to no programmer) but a lot of art...
A semester or two ago we got a little something going in torque game builder, it was called YOMI... it's not much, but whatever.

http://intuitiongames.com/portfoliopages/yomi.htm

I went to school at ISU for four years studying graphic design (in my last semester now) and before that I pursued creative writing at the University of Iowa, and before that I wanted to be a chef.  I still like cooking and writing, ideally i'd like to write/design games, but i enjoy the visual arts as well and find programming really rewarding.  I still consider myself a student and probably always will, and i love learning from all of you guys.  GDC was especially awesome.

i have some recipes (if hungry) and other work up on my website at www.gregwohlwend.com which includes my blog from when i was studying abroad in Rome last semester, it was a blast.  I'm here to feel the powerful passion and spirit of games made out of love instead of green paper slips.  I'm not happy with the current market of video games and I feel it's my duty to be part of the solution.  I think it's a great time to be an indie developer, a kind of renaissance will emerge out of us, i know it.

My favorite games of all time are Baldur's Gate II, and FFVII, FFII (cecil and kain, I know it's supposed to be IV or whatever, i played II on the SNES, suck it.) link to the past, kid icarus, bionic commando, mario 3, oh yea, and trial by fire: quest for glory II (ESPECIALLY AWESOME game by sierra, also could add in DIG, and robin hood: conquest of the longbow and other SCUMVM).  right now i'm having a ton of fun with n+.  Go raigan and mare!  I don't get to play enough games nowadays, but that's why TIGs is so awesome, i can taste them and get back to work.

[craigp]

So I'm Greg, I'm 24, live in Iowa, look like I'm 34 and co-founded intuition games with three other chaps (ted, mike & josh) in the fall of 2007.

Congrats!

I did the same thing...

-Craig

PS: link is busted. HTTP outside of quotes.

[Robert]

Always good to hear about other NZ game programmers :D and working with Sidhe is pretty impressive..

Your site doesn't give away too much information... whereabouts in NZ are you?

Why hello there, someone else hailing from our fair shores! We're based in Wellington - isn't that on the site, under company->contact? Anyway, been in Wellington all my life, traveled around the place a bit but saw no good reason to move.

[kevglass]

Hi there, I'm kev, I've been attempting to develop indie games for quite some years. You can find examples of my shambling attempts over at Coke and Code along with a rambling and often ranting blog, some tutorial stuff and links to various bits of reusable code.

In the main I work in Java (both for the day job and the real stuff), but I've written games in Flash, C/C++ and ASM back in the day.

I'm trying to get some advice here by asking hopefully pertenent questions about indie games business and designing games to sell.

Obligatory moments in game dev so far:



Kev

[Toby]

Hi everybody,

I'm Toby and I'm 18. This is a picture of me with Prince John:


I've been trying to make computer games for years and years now, and yet I don't really have anything much to show for it.

This is partly due to the fact that I am very alone when I game-make (none of my friends are interested in it) and it's so much easier for a project to die when nobody but yourself ever cared about it.
I like that added discipline, creativity and assurance that you get from working with others, but finding these others can be hard.

So I thought it might be a good idea to join these forums (I've been reading the blog for quite a while) and meet folk that like this game making too.


These are my favourite games:

(I'm a big fan of Derek)

[skaldicpoet9]

Velkommen! to the forums everyone

[the_depraved]

yes.

[mrhollow]

So I thought it might be a good idea to join these forums (I've been reading the blog for quite a while) and meet folk that like this game making too.

Nice to meet you Toby. What kind part of making games are you interested in? Dev, Art, Design?

[dustin]

Hi there, I'm kev, I've been attempting to develop indie games for quite some years. You can find examples of my shambling attempts over at Coke and Code along with a rambling and often ranting blog, some tutorial stuff and links to various bits of reusable code.

Ha awesome, I use your slick for programming at the moment.  Was using c++/sdl but then having to use c++ at school I wanted something different for when I was just doing stuff for fun.  I like it a lot.  I'm dustin on the slick forums as well...

[Toby]

Nice to meet you Toby. What kind part of making games are you interested in? Dev, Art, Design?

Hey there Aaron, I like most parts really, but I guess if I had a forte it would be the art.

[Jasper Byrne]

Hi everyone, I thought I'd introduce myself, as I'm new to the forums.

My name's Jasper, and I'm a hobbyist game writer!

I've been reading the site for a long time, it always gives me a giggle, and made me realise that there are other people out there like me who always loved the idea of small or one-man teams, creativity and gameplay above all.

I published a couple of games back in about '94 / '95 on the Amiga computer in the UK.  They were licenseware titles (sora between shareware and commercial, towards the end of the Amiga's life).  One of them was a point'n'click ala Monkey Island called Keith's Quest.  It was on 4 whole disks and did quite well in reviews, getting 85% in Amiga Format.  I made it with a mate called Caspar, who did the art.  I also did a coverdisk for AF which was called Jet Set Willy 3 (an unofficial sequel.)  Both of these are are there on the net if you have a search.

I did a degree in CS then dropped out in my final year to become a drum and bass DJ and have been doing that ever since, living in Japan for quite a while.  Games have always been my passion, particularly Japanese ones, and I was lucky enough to meet some of the movers and shakers over there.

But I'm hoping to move this year into the games industry and I've been doing a lot of research and revision, working on demos and so on, learning new things such as OpenGL.  I'm hoping to get a job for a couple of years in the industry and when I have a little experience and cash to start an indie!

Nice to meet you.