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[increpare]

So goes the tradition.  Elaborate as you will.

Name (i.e. What you want people calling you to your face):
Stephen.

Coming from
Cambridge!

What I does:
Games.

Some of the things I've worked on:
Lots of small things.

TIGJam participation:
Making games!

What I want out of TIGjam:
To make some games.

[LeFishy]

Name (i.e. What you want people calling you to your face):
Fishy.

I guess Luke works too.

FACE!


Coming from:
Plymouth

What I does:
Actionscript (flashpunk) and Unity

Some of the things I've worked on:
Er...

TIGJam participation:
Mostly I just sit around and have ideas and then tell everyone I come near but never actually make anything. I'd like to make something maybe this time.

What I want out of TIGjam:
To make some games. To meet some peeps. To have me some funs. Most importantly to eat me some spicy chips.

[CrimsonSnake]

Name: Angel

Pic:

mmmmmm... Tropicana...

Coming from: Cambridge

What I does: Student and ARU, Computer Games and VFX.

TIGJam participation: I makes ART for games. I'm better at 3D but I do 2D too, I wouldn't mind learning a bit of programming too, I have some experience with Unity and UDK.

What I want out of TIGjam: To have fun, meet some new faces and possibly learn something.

[bluescrn]

Name
Dave

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Coming from
Leamington Spa
(Which is pretty much the game dev capital of the UK, so why no indie scence?  )

What I does:
I'm mainly a C/C++/C# coder, with a little over 10yrs games industry experience as a programmer.

Some of the things I've worked on:
First (and last) commercial indie game was this, in 1996: http://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=1552

Since working in the industry, I've rarely finished any indie stuff beyond numerous Ludum Dare entries - http://www.bluescrn.net/?page_id=5 - but I aim to change that this year... A plan is forming...

Highlights of my games industry experience include doing programming work on Super Monkey Ball Jr. (GBA), Colin McRae 2005 (PS2/Xbox), and the DJ Hero series.

And here's some fun things that I've worked on that never got finished: http://www.bluescrn.net/?page_id=4

TIGJam participation:
Definitly up for at least a couple of mini-jams, maybe do some work on a larger project, and also hoping to enjoy at least a little bit of beer whilst moaning about the state of the games industry...

What I want out of TIGjam:
Have fun making games, make indie friends, chat about 'going full-time indie' with anyone that has (try to decide whether it's for me...), Oh, and to ask Terry the correct pronounciation of 'VVVVVV'

[Jonathan Whiting]

Name (i.e. What you want people calling you to your face):
Jonathan.

Pic (apologies for myspace-y-ness, I don't have many post-haircut photos)


Coming from
Oxford

What I does:
I make games, primarily in flex at the moment.  More programmer than anything else, though I've picked up a thing or two about other stuff along the way.

Some of the things I've worked on:

Best known/significant games are probably Jed, Aubergine Sky and Love Letter

TIGJam participation:
Make games, make games, make games.  Also, meet people, chat, eat and sleep, when those goals align with the first.

I'm a big fan of the 3hr game jams, I seem to have a thing about rediculous deadlines.

Would quite like to do a bit of collaboration too, primarily because it's not something I usually do.

What I want out of TIGjam:
Mostly just to have fun, making games is fun.

[Klaim]

Name (i.e. What you want people calling you to your face):
Joël (or Klaim -klème- , some of my friend remember only my nickname, so I'm used to answer to it)

Coming from
Paris - France

What I does:
Games. And sometime comics. And Digital comics tools at the moment. And boring but techy stuff at work.

Mostly C++ but did and can work with anything programmable/scriptable.

Some of the things I've worked on:
Err no thing I'm proud of on the dayjob side, but some NDS games and flash persistant games.
On the spare time side, I'm working on NetRush that I want to release this year and sometimes on RLC that I work on when I'm bored with other projects and soon I'll be able to talk about Art of Sequence.

Err...on the comics side I did this one (short 17 pages "novel") and started but not translated this one - and a bit abandonned for the moment.

TIGJam participation:
Making games! And working on RLC.

What I want out of TIGjam:
To make some games. And having the RLC collision and ennemy system finished.

[bateleur]

Wait, are we not doing photos? We should. That was useful last time.

Name: Dom

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Coming from
London

What I does:
Programming (various - currently most often AS3 or Unity), art, impressions of mooses, consuming milkshakes.

Some of the things I've worked on:
Most recently UpBot Goes Up, which should be out quite soon. Last release before that was The Unicyclist. Also playable online is Ballrooms. My only ever commercial release (a puzzle game called Dozer) was back in 1993 on the Amiga 500!

TIGJam participation:
As yet undecided, but certain to involve both playing and making games.

What I want out of TIGjam:
To hang out with as many indies as possible and check out all the cool games, drink cinnamon milkshake and generally wish every day was TIGJam.

[Anthony Hart-Jones]

Name: Anthony

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Coming from
Milton Keynes (but staying in Duxford for the weekend)

What I does:
For games - Design, narrative design, writing, PHP / HTML / JS, semi-competent with Ren'Py , 3 years out of practice with C++, 5 years out of practice with Java and C#, 10 years out of practice with VB.
Otherwise - Lecturing on narrative design / game design, trying to convince indies and students not to attempt MMOs...

Some of the things I've worked on:

• Cancelled PC MMO for Microsoft - Level designer
• High School Dreams (PC narrative-driven social sim) - Designer / Writer
• Narrative iPhone game (awaiting release, still under NDA) - Designer / Lead Writer
• Narrative iPhone game (awaiting release, still under NDA) - Lead Writer
• Licensed iPhone game (awaiting release, still under NDA) - Lead Designer
• Deep Space (WiP / learning-experience Facebook game) - Sole developer
• Other misc. projects in progress

TIGJam participation:
This is my first, but I was working on AAA titles for four years before I lost my job in the credit-crunch.  I had been a lead designer for about six weeks when they announced the redundancies...

What I want out of TIGjam:
To make a game, meet new people, have fun and maybe even find an artist for my current project.

[Perrin]

Name
Perrin

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Coming from:
London

What I does:
I spend most of my time making games in Unity and Flash. (I also do some Drupal CMS web work to pay the bills)

Some of the things I've worked on:
Most notably the white chamber but I've done a bunch of smaller games and over 30 jam games.

TIGJam participation:
I've been to the past two TIGJamUKs and a bunch of other UK game james. Last TIGJamUK I made like 10 games which is a record I'm not looking to break or repeat.

What I want out of TIGjam:
I'm not so fussed about making tons of games this time. I might work on a couple of games over the weekend instead of joining in every single jam. Overall though hoping it will be a fun social event.

[Alistair Aitcheson]

Name:
Alistair, or Ali if you like

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Coming from
Wiltshire

What I does:
Programming, art, animation, the whole hog really. I'm a bit of a jack of all trades.

I've recently started up my game dev business as a one-man indie, and am focusing on iPhone and iPad. My current project is Greedy Bankers, an arcade-stlye puzzler (pictured above).

As well as Objective-C/Cocos2D, I mostly work with XNA and FlashPunk.

Some of the things I've worked on:
Greedy Bankers - Free Windows prototype, started as an Experimental Gameplay Project entry.
Shifty Trains - A sliding tile puzzler I worked on with a friend.
A rundown of my other stuff

TIGJam participation:
I'd love to make some games with other people, have some fun, chat and socialise with other developers! Really looking forward to meeting everyone

What I want out of TIGjam:
Make some new friends and have fun making games!

[Terry]

Awesome, we haven't done one of these in ages :D

Name
Terry Cavanagh

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Coming from:
New Braunfels, Texas

What I does:
Accordion playing, life coaching, performance coach for musicians.

Some of the things I've worked on:
Five years of performance at Walt Disney’s Epcot Center, performance experience in hundreds of festivals throughout America, stage and television appearances on four continents.

TIGJam participation:
Supercharged Arrangements, High-Watt Humor, Power Surging Performances

What I want out of TIGjam:
Although I know I’m bringing people a great gift when I am helping them loosen up and party, I especially enjoy just playing great music in a great environment. It’s magical and transforming for me and people in the audience. All of a sudden, the mind begins to calm down and wander to distant shores. Life takes on more zest, passion, and charm. I love that!

[bateleur]

Wow, Terry, dig the new groove man! You've changed a lot!

[Draknek]

Wow, the world's most dangerous accordion player?! Coming to our TIGJam? Truly we are honoured.

Name:
Alan

Pic:


Coming from:
Bristol

What I does:
Programming, mostly using FlashPunk. Some experience with physics simulation.

Some of the things I've worked on:
My last Ludum Dare game, something in the Reddit ad rotation, currently working on a puzzle game.

What I want out of TIGJam:
Make some 3 hour games that actually get finished, hang out with cool dudes. I haven't done many collaborations recently, would be good to do some of that.

[Gwinnell]

Name (i.e. What you want people calling you to your face):
Ash

Pic:


Or incase you don't recognise me by the one above:


Coming from:
London

What I does:
Lots of programming. Java, C++, PHP, and such.

Some of the things I've worked on:
As an indie, Inverse Polarity is perhaps the only thing worth mentioning. As employed, Must.Eat.Birds port from iOS to Android (buy it).

TIGJam participation:
Programming, music and simple pixel art; anything but animation. Oh yeah, and meeting a bunch of people. ;-)

What I want out of TIGjam:
To finish something I won't be ashamed of.

[Klaim]

Ok I added a picture. I just got glasses (didn't have before).

[Ishi]

Name (i.e. What you want people calling you to your face):
Craig



Coming from
Coventry

What I does:
Code, pixels, and getting into less pixelly art recently.

Some of the things I've worked on:
Professionally - some iPhone games. Indiely - mostly xbox indie games stuff recently - platformers and the like. http://ishisoft.com/ Working on UpBot Goes Up which was born at TIGJam UK 2.

TIGJam participation:
Probably not code - mainly looking to contribute with art and design and stuff. I do enough coding at work currently.

What I want out of TIGjam:
To have fun and hang out with indies. I also second LeFishy's craving for spicy chips.

[superflat]

Name:
Jasper

Coming from:
Round the corner.

What I does:
Designer at a game company by day, and on my own stuff by night.

Some of the things I've worked on:
Couple in my sig, and the one in my avatar is my latest effort.

TIGJam participation:
Might be fun to do some kinda collaboration this jam, as I normally work alone.  Wouldn't mind just doing art, music and some design and leaving the code to someone else...

What I want out of TIGjam:
To meet you all!

[KommanderKlobb]

Name:
Ricky



Coming from
London

What I does:
Design + program games

Some of the things I've worked on:
Most recently Hohokum, Kahoots, Poto & Cabenga (Handy summary at klobb.posterous.com)

TIGJam participation:
Gonna work on a game.

What I want out of TIGjam:
Soak up the jammy vibe, meet cool people and make stuff. And I suppose I had better evaluate these becoming-infamous spicy chips for myself!

[PaulForey]

What To Say To My Face:
Paul

Face While On Holiday In Canada And Doing A Stupid Pose: (that was the specific category, right?)

(I look inflated because I'm wearing a lot of clothes)

Coming From:
Coventry (I've seen one other person from here, yay!)

What I'm About:
Mostly Audio stuff. I'm genuinely disappointed that Terry Cavanagh might not be, as first advertised, an awesome accordion player.

I can write, arrange and produce music and I'm mostly familiar with high(ish) fidelity somewhat-traditional stuff, though I've recently started learning how to work a tracker to maybe look at some low-bit stuff.

I'm really into procedural audio and doing fun things by linking code and audio (using OSC and Pure-Data). All good stuff.

I can program in Python and Pygame, though mostly only because it's so much easier than other languages I've glanced at

Some of the things I've worked on:
Nothing! See the vacuous webspace I made for myself here: http://runtime-audio.co.uk

TIGJam participation:
Creating songs and sounds for your projects! Maybe do a bit of simple programming as well.

What I want out of TIGjam:
To make some really interesting games and meet some really interesting people.

[talldan]

Ok, I went ahead and bought a ticket!



Name:
Dan

Coming From
Cambridge, so I guess I'm here already.

What I does
Mostly programming (C++, C#, Javascript, a bit of Java, the tiniest possible amount of actionscript), I'm reasonably good at sketching, storyboarding, but have never been great at digital art.

Some of the things I've worked on:
I was at Dare To Be Digital a couple of years ago, and went to last year's global game jam. Also did a few things at university. And have started on an Android game and a Flash/Flex game, but not anywhere near to completing it, as I haven't quite figured out how to work outside of work.

TIGJam participation:
Hopefully find some collaborators and complete a game!

What I want out of TIGjam:
It'll be good to meet some nice people, and to make games again as I've had a few months away from it.