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[Aquin]

Oooh, this bodes well for me! 

[MrChocolateBear]

Perhaps it is a sign of sophistication! lol

[cocoloco]

That's a bad sign for me then.

However, I did stick around long enough to figure out how to finally load an avatar so I think that says something.

[deetus]

Umm, right. Yo, guys. Yo.

I'm this fella who chose the deliciously fun to pronounce username of deetus and I hang out in a sorta cottage county - like town in Canada called Val-Des-Monts in QC. I'm a short 20 minute drive away from Ottawa and I hang out and do high school things like be a guy in high school. It being summer and all that, I've been afforded the time to actually work on fun projects like, well, indie games. And art. I like to draw.

But back to indie games...

I've been hooked to independent stuff since I was 12 and have a bunch of indie games in a folder on my PC. I'm actually working with one of my chums to make our own indie game. It's pretty sketchy, so no promises, but I've got him doing all the coding, leaving me with the easy stuff.

So yeah. Hey, guys. Hey.

EDIT: Now with my sexy mug! But don't get any ideas 

[bDavisOops]

I am Ben, hear me R-oops.

[Kadoba]

Hello, I go by Kadoba. Real name is Casey Baxter. I'm just another indie hopeful

I'm a long time lurker and finally decided to take the plunge and register. I love video games. I love text-based games, shooters, RPGs, puzzle games, indie games, commercial games, In fact there isn't a genre of games that I don't like, unless they're bad games - I don't like those.

But out of all the games I hold near and dear I consider old school Ultima Online the epitome of gaming excellence. Nothing else has ever even compared to me. I've lost so much of my life to that game.

Anyway, making games has always been one of my highest aspirations. In fact it's contributed somewhat for my decision to major in Computer Science. However, most of my programming exposure comes solely from high level languages. I've had long reservations about learning C++ because of it's horribly confusing syntax and complexity but I've recently decided to suck it up and give it a solid go.

As for game projects, even though I get lots of ideas I always seem to aim far too high. I've started so many projects I've lost count. I don't regret it though, each time I get better. I've mostly stuck with game making software such as RPGmaker and Game Maker for a while but I seems to always reach a point where it doesn't seem like I get enough power out of them. So I've decided to try my hand at C++ and SFML (wish me luck!)

I'd say that of all skills that have to do with game development I'm best at spriting and worst at music.

This is a sample sheet of my pixel art from my various projects:


Sometimes I draw comics too, although they don't get very far. Here's one I'm working on now:

http://www.bykad.com/Stuff/DoC1.jpg
http://www.bykad.com/Stuff/DoC2.jpg
http://www.bykad.com/Stuff/DoC3.jpg
http://www.bykad.com/Stuff/DoC4.jpg
http://www.bykad.com/Stuff/DoC5.jpg

[BadgerManufactureInc]

Hi.  Just another Byrne.

Barnaby John, 31, London.

I had a demo of an overhead racing game reviewed in Amiga Format years ago. That was before Manchester University in 97 where I passed only 2 years of their Computer Science degree. I lost interest and wanted to be making indie games or electronic music.  I ended up working as a web designer for a while, but to this day I'm glad I attended Manchester and got introduced to various topics such as Java and computer graphics.

Since then I have drawn buildings for 5 years in the Structural Enginering industry, using Autocad and Microstation; I've most recently been helping design structural drawings and 3D's of high rise buildings in a leading design engineer.

I did sign up on tigs as redshift last summer but.. I may ask someone in charge to delete my old profile... so anyway if I confused anyone I apologise, but I am determined to stay this time.

I take building design seriously but games are my escape.

I wanted to mention my dad Johnny Byrne who was a famous screen writer, literary genius, my big bro Superflat, winner of demake with Soundless Mountain, my little bro fullspectrum, also a game designer and musician.
 
I am coding my engines in Actionscript 3.0, some screenies follow:




It's been a pleasure to say hello to such a welcoming and inspiring community.

[VinceTwelve]

Hi, I'm Vince Twelve. I'm a father of two working as a boring old business software developer and spending my freetime (what's that?) making games!

I made anna

and What Linus Bruckman Sees When His Eyes Are Closed

I also programmed Spooks and Nanobots for Erin "The Ivy" Robinson, so I like to pretend that I'm tangentially famous. I also programmed the base game mechanics and first couple levels of her game in progress, PuzzleBots before having a second kid and having to pass the project off to a different programmer who had more time.

I'm currently working on my own commercial p&c adventure game, Resonance, which is full of pixel goodness:

 

 

I blog updates on my fake company's website, xiigames.com, and twitter updates as VinceTwelve. Been meaning to register here for ages, just never gotten around to it.  Uhh... hi!

[Jared C]

Hey Vince!  Man, the art in Resonance looks great. 

Your other games look great too.
Glad to see so many great newcomers. 

[VinceTwelve]

Thanks Masna!

[Tiny]

I'm lurking here sometimes but...

[JoeHonkie]

I want that Resonance game.  Gimme.

[The Ivy]

Hey Vince, 'bout time you showed up.

By the way, how are little Robocop and Ghostbusters doing?

[VinceTwelve]

I endeavor to give it to you, JoeHonkie.

Hey Ivy, I know, slow to the party as usual.  Both Robocop and Ghostbusters are doing very well, thank you for asking.

(Should I have mentioned that my daughter is named Robocop and my son is named Ghostbusters? Does that earn me indie cred?)

[unsilentwill]

Hey.

I was planing on registering earlier this week, but it's been so dang nice out. Now I am sunburned, so now seems like a fine time.

I've always played games, I'm 20 so by the time I got my cousins NES he had moved on to bigger things, and it was all mine. Started with Mario and Zelda and haven't quite left them. Ocarina of Time was probably a turning point for really getting into what games and their unique storytelling should be for.

I'd consider myself an above-average artist, though I've been amazed by some of the greats here. I haven't made a game or any serious game art. BUT I have been arting since before I got my NES. Currently I'm working at school in a rather conservative fine-arts program, focusing on painting and sculpture. I love digital art and the unique styles that stem from it, the fine art is really just training.

As far as games go, over the last five or six years I've been going back to all of the classics that I never quite understood, only this year buying a DS for Chrono Trigger. I've been inspired by Nintendo mostly but Team Ico, David Hellman and even Phil Fish had had an enormous impact.

Otherwise, I'll be posting quite a bit and hope my work can tell you a bit more about me.

[elgms]

Hello everyone, my name is Kevin, and I have been in the gaming scene since the 1980s.  Some of the first games I ever played were arcade style games, then atari.  In the 1990s I got into pc gaming with command and conquer, doom and quake.  Currently I am playing fortress forever, left 4 dead and a little quake live.

[JLJac]

Hullo folks

[Inane]

(Should I have mentioned that my daughter is named Robocop and my son is named Ghostbusters? Does that earn me indie cred?)

If you're serious, you're my new hero.

[Ben K Evans]

Name's Ben. Just joined today, and couldn't help but marvel over the sheer amount of smileys you guys have. I mean normally I hate smileys, but this time I have to give kudos.

 

 

 

AWESOME.

[Alec S.]

Name's Ben. Just joined today, and couldn't help but marvel over the sheer amount of smileys you guys have. I mean normally I hate smileys, but this time I have to give kudos.

 

 

 

AWESOME.

So getting the chance to draw low-res nude women is what finally got you to join the board.