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[leafo]

Hello I'm leafo. I thought I had an account here a long time ago, but I guess not. I've made a few games for Ludum Dare:

http://leafo.net/#games

I make websites, music and games. But I mostly program. Follow me on GitHub if that's your thing: https://github.com/leafo

I make all my games in my own programming language called MoonScript (http://moonscript.org), which compiles down to Lua. Then I run them in Love2d

I'm slowly making a game not in the confines of Ludum Dare. You can follow any of my endeavours on my blog: http://leafo.tumblr.com/

Here's a cool gif from my last Ludum Dare entry, I hope it's not too big:

[niteshg16]

Hi, I am Nitesh.

I am currently working on a fast paced roguelike game.

[Flourish]

Hey guys,

Working on a game for Android/iOS at the moment. It's a runner-like game, but it may have levels. It's my first solo-developed game, so that's why it's a casual game rather than the dream epic Witcher 2/Skyrim crossbreed I really wanna make lol. Will hopefully release it sometime this year.

Prototype is almost complete. Can't wait to show it to the world when it's ready. Looking forward to checking out the games from the people on these forums!

Good luck everyone!

- Flourish

[erik]

Hello everyone.  I created this account a while ago, but never got around to introducing myself.

My name is Erik.  Game development is a favorite hobby of mine, though it's often difficult to make time for it.  I used to participate in LD48's pretty regularly:
http://www.ludumdare.com/compo/author/erik/

Lately my game dev time has been going into Life Goes On, a project that started at the 2012 Global Game Jam.

As for early influences and that sort of thing... the big one that comes to mind is the Space Quest series.  Particularly Space Quest III.  I loved that game as a kid.  The internet generally doesn't seem to have as much nostalgia for it as I do though.

Happy game deving everyone.

[dangersam]

Hey all, Sam here.  I guess you could say I'm a "veteran" in the industry (i.e. old ), having worked professionally as a games programmer for nearly 15 years.  Originally from the UK, I have lived in Vancouver, Canada for many years, working at EA (most recently as lead rendering engineer on SSX).

A few months ago I quit EA to try my hand at indie development, the time seemed right for a new challenge!  I'm now working on a first person exploration and construction game.



Here it is in action: http://youtu.be/b8aie7Iqtuo
My dev blog: http://dangersam.tumblr.com/

It's truly inspiring to see just how many indie devs are on here making cool stuff, I wish you all the best with your projects!

Cheers,
Sam

[draconiansolo]

Hello Everybody!

I'm Nicolas Coronado. The thought of making games is the only thing that keeps me going.
My entire life it was my dream to make games but life is distracting and sometimes you just don't get the education you were looking for; I got distracted by 3d, and then compositing and ended up working for films and tv as I never found how I fitted in the whole game making thing. I'm usually a VFX compositor, currently doing some digital compositing at Framestore, in London UK. I also have a small venture in Colombia -where I am from- called Autobotika, we do vfx and want to do concept design and games and stuff.

When I'm not working overtime I'm programming stuff; I started doing bunches of creative coding using processing and now I am making the leap to Java.

I've written "I" Lots of times in this introduction because that's the way I was taught to write in english. It starts so sound horribly selfish with time.

My favorite games ever would be Mario 3, Final Fantasy Tactics, Chrono Cross and Vagrant Story in the big budget side of things; In the sunnier Indie side I've really loved Limbo, Super Meatboy, Red Rouge, Teleglitch and Risk of rain.

I'm working on several game Ideas, one prototype in particular which I'd love to show you guys when it is more polished. And when I get how this whole internet forum thing works.

In the meantime, I can show you the shortfilm I made with a bunch of friends a couple of years ago. http://draconiansolo.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/diastole-fuckyeah/

[eigenbom]

hello new people, welcome!

[mushroomized]

hello new people, welcome!

Thanks moonmanman

[smashthewindow]

Hi all,

I'm a high school student interested in working in the field of game dev.

And I like to create cool stuff.

That's pretty much it.

[bitSmithGames]

Hello all, from rainy Dublin!

We are bitsmith Games, based in Ireland.

We released our first game for iPad in January, with other versions on the way!

you can check it out here:
http://bitsmithgames.com/Games/ku-shroud-of-the-morrigan/

AHOY!

[MattFitz]

Greetings, folks! I recently came across TIGSource and it's super fancy!

Who's in the mood for a (probably) overly verbose intro?!

My name is Matt and I like to make comics, music, sometimes movies and messes.

In the spirit of the original post, here's what I look like being a dweeb on Halloween:


My first real foray into gaming was thanks in no small part to Super Mario Bros. Sorta trite, I know, but damn did that thing set off fireworks in my brain (... and on screen. Sometimes.).

I didn't have a PC growing up, so I spent a lot of prepubescent years coveting my grade school chums' titles like Doom and Daggerfall.


Bastards.

Once I did get my grubby hands on a cream colored box that could perform complex calculations,
it came in the form of a "Power PC" Macintosh sporting (or, severely crippled by) a suite of
software called Performa, or some damn thing. I was largely limited to what Blizzard, Bungie and
Lucas Arts had to offer but once I got a copy of Warcraft II, I was done for. Thanks especially
to the map editor, I shot that thing up like... like something really awesomely bad for you.


There were plenty of other games that reduced me to a smoldering pile of couch potato that I
encountered over the years. Call me Looney Tunes, but I count Zelda II and Super Mario Bros. 2
among them. (gotta love being able to use roman numerals and regular digits in the same sentence!) And, I feel I would be sorely remiss in my duties as a human if I didn't mention mutha fuckin' RUNE!!


I had always excitedly entertained the idea of game development, but outside of keeping some journals containing game ideas, playing with sprites and tilesets, and a couple semesters of C++ in highschool, I never dove in.

A couple years ago I really needed something different and fun to work on, so I started a little passion project - a game I had always wanted to play but just didn't quite exist. I hadn't really put any serious time into it except for the odd month or three whre I obsessed over the thing. Recently I was given the super mind blowingly awesome gift of getting to work on my game full time! Yay!


This seems like a great community - lots of creativity and inspiration to be had. I look forward to hanging out and seeing what everyone's working on!

TL;DR Rune is awesome.

Cheers!

[Impmaster]

Alright! Welcome!

[xeriku]

Hello, My name is Will/Xeriku,


I got into making games during my teens when I used ripped Final Fantasy IV graphics to make a small scale online multiplayer RPG game. From that time until now, I have desired to finally complete a game and begin my journey into making games for a living.

I am primarily a programmer, but I have been spending a lot of time lately learning level design and pixel art so that I can make a game that it somewhat decent looking. I've heard how great this community can be and I hope to stay here.

[nightlight]

Hello

[64Mega]

Hello everybody.
I've been procrastinating with regards to joining TIGSource for ages. 
Anyway, I began making games from the second I found out about QBasic on an ancient Pentium 1 machine that ran Win 98. I was only 10 at the time.
From there, I progressed to Pascal, then on to C, had a brief fling with Game Maker, and all the while migrated over to C++.
My original inspiration was the NES; I really wanted to make games like that, my own worlds and such. Also, the complete and utter lack of games on the family PC drove me to desperation.

These days, I mostly wind up making platformers, often adhering to self-imposed NES like limitations. For this, I tend to use Game Maker if I'm feeling lazy, or C++ (Usually using SFML and a GME for music).
So far, I've made a slew of platformers, and one first person shooter style game, built from scratch. It's not very fancy, but can be played here: http://gamejolt.com/games/shooter/exile/10869/

And finally, I'm a chiptune artist, focusing on music for games. Famitracker is my weapon of choice. Some of my music can be heard here: https://soundcloud.com/mega1992

I look forward to making use of these forums.