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[Inane]

Agnes! Welcome to TIGS


Same goes for the rest of ya'll, whom I do not know.

[ptoing]

Nice to see you here, Agnes

[peterlubeck]

Hello fellow developers, dreamers and visionaries!

My name is Peter Lübeck and I am a game designer/producer living and working in Sweden. I have been making games in one form or the other for the last five years, although I bet none of you ever heard of any of them, except perhaps the latest one: fast-paced platform-racer Boingo. I say the last five years because that's how long I actually been involved with developing games, but I recently found a 13 year old notebook hinting at a more long-term affinity/interest. In it I had scribbled down design specifications for a turn-based strategy game based on the Warlords series of games, complete with levels and everything. So I guess it is safe to say that games, if not game development, has been one of my main interests and sources of inspiration and creative urges for the better part of my life.

The first project I was involved in was a SNES-age inspired, JRPG-a-like, written in OpenGL and adorned with old-school 2D graphics. We were five people involved, and although we managed to lay a relatively solid foundation, the game never made it beyond a very basic prototype. With basic prototype I mean basic rendering, collision detection and an animated character that could move around a closed off section of the game world, and that was it. This wasn't that unexpected since we were, to use a familiar term, complete and utter noobs when it came to game development.

Since then I have experienced a lot of different projects, teams, setbacks and triumphs, which has led me where I am today. As one of the founders of Black Drop Studios I spend every day doing what I love the most, namely being creative in the company of other creative people. Sure, running a company, albeit a small one, changes things a bit, but it is mostly great and it opens up a lot of interesting possibilities.

I have already made this more lengthy than I intended, but what the heck! I can only introduce myself once, right?

P.S We are slowly but surely establishing a development blog over at http://blackdropstudios.com. Be sure to stop by and check it out, and feel free to tell us what you would like to read/see/know about who we are, what we do and how we work. D.S

[Lynx]

Welcome!  Best of luck with your upcoming trip to GDC.

[nadam]

Hi,

I am Adam Nagy, a 33 year old hungarian game programmer and gamer.
My first computer was a C64, I've got it when I was 12 years old. My favorite game was Last Ninja 2 on that computer. It was simply awesome for its age...
I've started programming games as a child, but all my projects were very small, or unfinished.
Today I am a professional programmer, but I am programming business applications in a corporate environment. This is not as exciting as writing games, so my plan is to become an indenpendent game developer.
I've just finished my first indie game called 'Foosball Maniac', so I am very excited now. This is a realistic 3D foosball game for both casual players and hardcore foosball fanatics. I will write about it in the announce section soon...

[Grimlogic]

Hello everyone. My name is Mix, and I'm from the Philippines. After 23 years of being alive I still find magic in games in general.

I've made a couple of games before, a memorable one being a submarine game written in QBasic, but I've long since lost the source code to that one. Floppy disks never were reliable media for the long term.

I do sucky pixel art, and sucky sound effects. Hoping to learn a lot from this place.

[gunswordfist]

Hello everyone. My name is Mix, and I'm from the Philippines. After 23 years of being alive I still find magic in games in general.

I've made a couple of games before, a memorable one being a submarine game written in QBasic, but I've long since lost the source code to that one. Floppy disks never were reliable media for the long term.

I do sucky pixel art, and sucky sound effects. Hoping to learn a lot from this place.

Welcome Mix!

[mogwai13]

hello. my name is Sergey, i'm journalist from Russia, Moscow... well, to be honest i'm unemployed right now
(financial crisis stroke blah blah blah)
i played my first game about 20 years ago (yeah, i'm old, really old)
it was some kind of lode runner clone for some soviet computer (which in turn was a clone of some foreign computer)
since then games definitely have changed!
some of my favorites are:





(there are many more, but i have to stop now)

oh, and also this:


while searching for a new job i continue to make games using GM, create music with my project called "monster sushi mayday" and read bad poetry at some Moscow pubs full of cigarette smoke and drunken people.
that's it i guess

[destroysound]

Hello.

I'm William Hunt. I'm 28. I'm a developer. I develop things. A lot of times, those things are hangovers. Sometimes they are games.

Obligatory first (x):

• First Computer: Apple ][+
• First Game I Can Recall Playing: Lode Runner
• First Programming Language: Apple Basic
• First Real Programming Language: C++

I've progressed through a number of languages; however, I've been working mostly with Python in general and Pygame in particular for a few years now. Here are some screenshots of games that inspire me, interspersed with games I've written.

[Zhal]

Hey!
I'm Toni from Finland. I'm a game programming student at Kajaani University of Applied Sciences (some of the Finnish peeps here might know Kajak Game Development Lab) on my second year. I have programmed before, in another school, but even though I liked it I never started doing it on my own time. Mainly, at first, because I didn't have a computer and secondly, because I liked to play more.
I started gaming when I was 5 (year 1989) and got a NES for Christmas with Super Mario Bros. + Tetris + Nintendo World Cup 3-in-1 cartridge. I was also lucky to have the kind of friends who had stuff like C64, Vic-20, Amiga etc. And we actually played with those far into 90's. <3
Anyways, the school I'm in, is trying to force feed 3D programming and such, but my heart goes to 2D, so hopefully, one day, I'll have something cool to show/release. (I actually do have one prototype, that I might show.)

Also, I have my mandatory practical training coming, anyone want a "free" programmer slave? Haha. ;P

[Morre]

Hey, it's destroysound! Hello to you, fellow ludumdare participant!

[gunswordfist]

Welcome mogwai, destroysound and Zhal!

[siegarettes]

yo! I'm MecuryBlind. I also go by the game creator name of cigarettes (for a few different reasons).

I'm an aspiring artist, game creator,writer and comic book creator. I'd like to do something with sound design as well, but i dunno.

I'm currently trying to work on my art and explore different forms, as well as learn different aspects of game creation, especially design.

some of my biggest game influences are
megaman
robotron
passage
doom

my artings:
http://zeromarker.deviantart.com/

[willthoven]

Hello TIGSource! I'm a game developer form Charleston, SC. I'm a bit new to the indie game space, but having been programming for quite some time, that's given me an advantage. I began getting into video games way back when Civilization was released by Sid Meier and his crew. I still to this day can't remember how I got my hands on a copy, but I did, and I was hooked. Interested in how to actually make games myself, I used the power of the Internet and found Game Maker and so it goes...

I'm currently studying media arts at the University of South Carolina, with a minor in computer science. So I pretty much get to develop websites, make film and study game design for three more years and I get a degree. Hopefully I can do all that for a living one day

Oh, and here's my website: willgoss.com

Cheers!

[TomMonster]

I actually posted in the art section before posting here, oops! but here i am now.

My name is Tom, i'm 21, I've done the art for a few flash games and an iphone game, some may posssssibly know of a very simple point and click game called Anikas Odyssey.

I've become super interested in the indie scene (although i'm already getting tired of the word indie) over the last two years. I'm really interested in moving away from just being the art guy and being a fully fledged game designer on some games. I contributed to the design of the game, but it wasn't my leading role in the games i have worked on. Sounds a little strange saying this when really it was me and one other guy that made the games. Anyway.

I think the first game i ever played was shufflepuck cafe on our family's apple (i just found out it was made the year i was born!) it had super awesome characters.... I kind of forgot about that game until now, i think it influenced my sensibilities more than i would have thought, haha

Soon after that though my mum got me a snes without me even knowing what it was, and from then on, i really really really really liked games. Super Mario world and Donkey Kong Country are what i grew up on. But i think i was still very impressionable during the N64 era with Super Mario 64, Legend of Zelda:Ocarina of time and Banjo Kazooie.

   

As far as more current games...
These games have all made a significant impact on me and what i think a game can be/do, in one way or another.

    -Jonathan Blow's Braid
    -Edmund Mcmillian's Coil
    -Rod Humble's The Marriage
    -Cactus's Psychosomnium
    -Sony???'s Pata-Pon
    -Valve's Portal
    -Team Ico's Shadow of the Colossus

So yeah, hello TIGer's, you guys are super cool. 

[JHJS4LIFE]

Hi there. I'm JHJS.

Well what's there to say uh I got a Gameboy when I was five and that pretty much got me hooked on games. My favourite game of all time is Banjo Tooie. I've had an interest in indie gaming for quite some time now and I've got a lot of ideas but not much to show for them yet. Hopefully that'll change soon.

Also shufflepuck cafe is the shit. I would always cheat though and make my paddle the size of the table.

[Dacke]

some may posssssibly know of a very simple point and click game called Anikas Odyssey.

I really liked that one! Welcome!

[Peevish]

I guess this is overdue.

I'm Peevish. I live in this artist space in Rhode Island, mostly doing video and animation. My dad got me The Secret Of Monkey Island when I was 7. And that was IT.

I'm in the design stages of my first game, a 4 character adventure game. I'm gonna be messing with Unity for the next few days, but most likely I'm going to have to build the engine from the ground up. So I've been learning Python. It's pretty slow going, sadly. Until then I've been doing a lot of writing, fleshing out the characters and the setpieces.

Let me introduce you to the cast!


Tek, Sebastian, Marshall, and Julie.



And some Vimeo:

[Noe]

Hey  ,

I'm Noe, and you might know me as Panda in Pixelation and PixelJoint.

I'm a pixel artist, and I've been a long time lurker (2~3 years? heh)

One of my dreams since forever has been making my own games.
But lacking coding knowledge has stopped me so far, so I thought joining would a good starting point.

If you are curious about the stuff I pixel and draw, here is a link to my PJ Gallery and my recently made Blog.

Aaaand that's all I can think of right now :0
Oh and btw, this smiley is awesome 

[ChevyRay]

Welcome, Noe! I've seen you over at Pixel Joint. I was browsing through your stuff just earlier today. You're a fantastic artist, I love your style! Your Tei and Falcon are two of my favorite pixels on the site.

Also, welcome Peevish and Tom.

some may posssssibly know of a very simple point and click game called Anikas Odyssey.

Actually, if I remember properly, there was a topic about the game here, and it received quite a bit of hype when it was released. I played and beat it myself, it was a great little game, beautiful artwork.