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[lowpoly]

did you take advantage of that 3.5" disk upgrade? $5 is practically a steal!  :D

[torncanvas]

Nope, used the good ol' five-and-a-quarters.  Actually, I had Ghosts and Goblins, too, which my bro and I LOVED.  One day I was mindlessly fiddling with the ring in the middle of the disk.  Just moving it around while I was thinking about something else.

Yeah...I totally broke the disk.    We even tried to find another copy somewhere and couldn't.  That was a GREAT game.

[sergiocornaga]

I'm Sergio. I grew up on Lucasarts adventures and Apogee platformers. My first console was the Playstation and my second the Wii. Jonny Smeby, who I'm sure some of you will know, refers to me as "The Freeware Master."

And this is what I'm currently working on:



Any questions?

[Keops]

Welcome to TIGSource, Josh, Sergio. Pretty nice intros there. I really like the Treefort Wars artwork you have there.

Welcome onboard, have fun, make games!

[siiseli]

Hi, I'm siiseli(did you really think i'll let you into my real name and let you send mailbombs to my home). I'm an indie game developer, I haven't finnished a game for years, so all the games I have made and you can find on the internets are crap. Pure crap. My dream is to make an commercial game someday, I'm actually trying to work on one now, we'll see if it turns out anything. I grew up playing with a NES, sega megadrive 2 and an happy msx1, all of them I had hooked up with all the best games for those consoles. My personal favourites were sonics from 1 to 3, mario 3, the first legend of zelda and maze of galious. Thats really all you need to know about me, do ask, if you have any questions

[xix]

I like cooking. And I like warm weather. I like them together.




My name is Raphael. Sometimes people call me Raffy. Or flip. I use Klik & Play type products to make non Klik & Play type games. Simple stuff is my favorite. I just made a top 10 game list:

Double Dragon II
Resident Evil 4
Final Fantasy VI
Mario 64
Metal Gear Solid
Shadow of the Colossus
Diablo II
Virtua Fighter 4: Evo (I haven't played 5 )
Starcraft
Ridge Racer Type 4

I'm not sure if it's my "Top 10 rated" or if it's just games that I think fit the overall theme of "what Raffy likes to play". Everything, I think, has an essence. Our job is just to bring it out. Show it off. Maybe have a little fun while doing it.

[torncanvas]

Thanks for the compliment.  The TFW art is rather embarassing since it's the first 3d work any of us did on a real project.  We've all advanced quite a ways since then.     I still think the theme is cool, though.

Some of my latest work can be seen here:
http://www.greatgamesexperiment.com/user/torncanvas

A small step up, but a step nonetheless.  It's interesting to look back on your work and see if anything has stood the test of time for tolerance.  Looking at your work is like hearing a recording of your own voice - ew!  And then if you're looking for a job you have to talk it up!    Yikes...

Dude Raph, cooking FTW.  I LOVE cooking, too.  What kind of stuff do you like cooking the best?  For me, asian food and grilling are the best.  I love cooking with a wok.

[xix]

I watch a lot of Food Network and just copy. Alton Brown and Tyler Florence are two of my favorites. Bobby Flay is cool, too. And Anthony Bourdain is my all time favorite, but he's on Travel Channel. I just copy what I see.

I also grill a ton. It's my favorite. Fire and beer fits a college student.

I cook some Filipino food, too. Family thing. My family is from the province where they'd mortgage their houses to throw fiestas.

[Anthony Flack]

Korean food FTW.

[xix]

Ooh. I'll trade you Filipino recipes for Korean ones.

[kronholm]

Hello all, new here. 27 winters old, living in Denmark, brought up on c64, amiga and PC gaming, along with the odd console here and there. Favourite games include (but not limited to) Monkey Island series, Another World, Flashback, Elite, pretty much any other Lucasarts adventure game.

This seems like a really great and friendly site, I hope I'm right

Been doing lots of creative stuff on hobbyist level most of my life. Drawing, sketching, 3d graphics, animating (2d + 3d), music, sound design, web development, you name it.

Started coding a few months ago, using BlitzMax, which I find really great. But then again, haven't really got much to compare with. I've done a bit of php/mysql in the past, and then a very brief smell to c++, then I picked up BlitzMax and stayed there.

Currently making a Bomberman clone, which is not really a clone, more of an expansion on the original game with many new features and whatnot. If you ever see it, please keep in mind the graphics are temporary placeholders, i.e. crappy, until I get most mechanics working, then it's time to make the nifty pretty graphics. As time of this writing, working on the UDP multiplayer network part.

// Games that influenced kronholm, moved here from another thread by Derek

kronholm-edit: Thank you Derek

[Guert]

 Oh hey, I didn't notice that post before so I better introduce myself on the spot!

 First, my real name is Daniel-David Guertin. I'm 25, in the region of Montreal, Canada and I've started playing games since... Well, I don't remember.

 I started drawing stuff around when I was about 16. My friends and I found that if we had good grades, we could, in the last year of high school, have two art classes which meant alot of free time to do homework and hang out. Well, I manage to get those two classes and I found a real passion about art.

 I got into college and got a diploma in computer science at the age of 20. I never really liked coding, or fixing up computers even though I spent four years of my life studying them I spent of my classes drawing and dreaming up games.

 I draw alot, but I don't concider myself very good. At least not to what I would like to be! I've been doing pixel art for almost 3 years and I' trying to come up with a camic/cartoon page every month.

 I started to get involved in video game projects around 4 years ago. While workin' on these I was laboring in a grocery store. I quit last december after my latest project went gold and on it's way to being published. It got cancelled so I'm currently looking for a job.

 I'm currently workin on several indie game projects, including mine. I'll try to show what I'm workin' once it's at a decent stage.

 A quick list of my favorite games: Street Fighter 2, super mario, katamari damacy, dragon warrior, doom, starcraft... There are alot of titles that have influenced me so it's hard to say exactly. I'm sure I'm skipping so much title that when think of them I'll go "Damn! how could I had forgotten this one?"

 Beside video game, I'm a big movie fan. I enjoy the works of Kubrik, Tarentino, Copolla, Chaplin, Monthy python, and also so much more...
 
 I guess this is what I can say about myself right now.
Take care!
Guert! 

[God Mode]

Well, I just registered today but have been reading the front page for ..months now. I figured it was about time for me to make a forum account. Don't worry, I'm not here to spam my game link all over the place (if only I was far enough along on my game to put a link up to anything ).

Anyway! On to specifics:

Name: Adam
Online alias: God Mode
Location: Arkansas, United States
Alignment: Chaotic Good (I'm a nerd)
Skills: Pixel art, interface design, story direction
Favorite game: Super Metroid
Inspired by: Cave Story, Ikachan, and a whole slew of Sierra games from my childhood. They inspired the kind of games that I wanted to make myself: puzzle adventure games with an awesome story.

I wish I had a decent picture of myself, but all I've got is this picture of me from a Halloween party:


Here I am, and hello TIGS forums!

[siiseli]

ninja = automagically an great person.

welcome \o/

[pyabo]

My name is Bryan.  And I am a lurker.

Loved tigsource for many moons now, but finally joined the forums a few days ago.  I grew up on the NES -- literally, that is where most of my nutrition came from as a child, which probably accounts for my stunted growth.  But my first console was the Atari 2600... home of the unforgettable classics like River Raid and Frogger, the indecipherable bizarres like Raiders of the Lost Ark and SwordQuest:Whatever, and the eternally shameful ET: The Redundant Extraterrestrial.

I have been *cough* "working" on indie game projects for... <whistling>  Oh a long time now.  One day soon I will actually get around to making my first release, which will be this game here, a shameless clone of something you might recognize:



Yes, the Space Dog scares me too... but he's starting to grow on me. (trivia: The block graphics are by another forum member, johanp of Free Lunch Design)

I have promised myself to one day getting around to more original games.  OH yes.

Oh, and I can kick your butt in Street Fighter II.  Yea, I'm talkin' to you.  Punk.

[fucker]

a shameless clone of something you might recognize

Zuma?

[Xion]

a shameless clone of something you might recognize

Zuma?

Of course not! Can't you tell a Robotron clone when you see one?

[Kornel Kisielewicz]

a shameless clone of something you might recognize

Zuma?

Of course not! Can't you tell a Robotron clone when you see one?

Fancy graphics DOESN'T mean it's not a roguelike! We're in the 21st century, ASCII is not a requirement anymore.

[pyabo]

You're all right.  I'm calling it ZumatronHack.  Good work.

[Anthony Flack]

Ooh. I'll trade you Filipino recipes for Korean ones.

This is just about the quickest, easiest thing in the world to make, so I often make it when I'm feeling lazy (like tonight).

1) Throw some rice in the rice cooker
2) come back in about half an hour because the rest won't take too long
3) Fry up some thin strips of cow in a pan
4) add chopped-up bits of garlic shoots (nb: not garlic cloves) a few minutes later
5) spoon in a heap of kim chi at the end, with perhaps a little teeny bit of water
6) eat it with the rice