Introduce yourself

[Noel]

Hey everybody, I'm Noel Berry. I'm currently 18 and live in Winnipeg, Canada. I've been making games for the last several years (since I was 11 or 12?), and have lately been mostly working in Flash and Flash Punk, while occasionally messing around in some C#/XNA stuff and HTML5 things.

I started getting involved in the game dev community last year after I went to a game jam in Winnipeg. Since then I've gone to several game jams and GDC (all of which were really awesome).

I think some of my more interesting projects include the Winnitron and Leap4Blue. I also have a website.

Cheers :D

[Noah!]

Hello! My name's Noah!!

I'm just a guy who likes to make stuff, and that's pretty much all there is to know about me!

[mcc]

Hello! :D I go by mcc, I also post on Tigsource and I am "@mcclure111" on Twitter. I have been making games for the last few years under the name RUN HELLO. I made one game that people seemed to like a few years back, called Jumpman (no, not that Jumpman); then I ported it to the iPhone. I have been spending the time since trying to create some kind of follow-up, with limited success. I have created some interesting prototypes, including one big WIP game that's maybe half done, but nothing that seems close to a completed game just yet (though I did get a little drum machine program released a couple months back). I am trying to get better about (1) doing small one-off projects instead of everything being a huge waterfall-style project and (2) being more willing to post my stuff publicly, so I am hoping I can make some progress on that via regular posting here :)

I am more a programmer than anything else, so my main interest is in trying to find ways to use innovative applications of technology (read: ENGINE GIMMICKS) to present surprising or unique experiences. I am a fan of minimalism both for its own sake and because it covers up my limited artistic ability, so I have adopted a sort of Apple // Only Futuristic aesthetic for most of my projects that I think works pretty well. I would like to move indie games beyond slavish fetishism of the NES era and into also exploring slavish fetishism of the 2600/Spectrum/Apple // era.

I have lately started trying to post as much of my source code as possible on bitbucket.

[Jonathan Whiting]

Hi everyone o/

I'm Jonathan Whiting. Surprisingly enough, I make games. Largely flash stuff like Stalwart or Aubergine Sky. My background is in coding though and I've tried many many things at one time or another.

I spent ~4 years in a mid-small fairly non-indie games studio, which was sometimes great and sometimes much less so. I'm currently working in conventional software, and juggle making games as one of rather too many serious hobbies.

I go to game jams when I can (I live in Oxford, UK), code furiously, use big pixels and typically bite off more than I can sensibly chew.

I have a website jonathanwhiting.com and tweet @whitingjp

[moonmagic]

Hi! My name is Kyle Reimergartin, and I'm 27 and living in Seattle. I grew up playing games and started making them a few years ago to accompany music I was making at the time. I made some things in Game Maker at first, and now I'm learning to use Flashpunk. I tend to create ridiculous word salads for my titles, like "Magic Planet Snack" or "Together Fight: Friendly Hat Spirit". When I'm not making games I teach first grade. Also, my wife and I are going to have a baby this August.

I also post on Tigsource, and Twitter (@mooonmagic), and I keep a blog at lazercatz.com.

[Radiatoryang]

I'm Robert Yang. I'm an MFA grad student at Parsons in New York City. I studied English literature in an earlier life... no formal code experience, which I regret.

I do a lot of Half-Life 1 / Half-Life 2 mods. I used to work on Black Mesa Source (did Anomalous Materials) but now I do stuff on my own or in small groups. My biggest thing is probably a weird HL2 "art mod" called Radiator which I still need to finish. Lately I've been getting into a lot of Unity projects though.

I also write about games and stuff on my design blog, http://www.blog.radiator.debacle.us and on Twitter I'm @radiatoryang

Nice to meet you all, I'm sure we'll all be super friends

[_frog]

Hi all, I'm Rhys Powell, a 17 year old student living not-too-far from Sydney, Australia. I'm not very experienced at all this game making stuff, but I've buckled down and started learning the basics and recently got a working prototype of my first game done which was immensely satisfying. I occasionally write at my site but that's currently undergoing a redesign so it'll be a bit broken for the next few weeks. I've also developed apps for iOS and Mac OS X in the past (yes I use a mac) and have at times considered doing a game for one of those platforms, but I thought I'd get good at it before I started launching into any grand plans. I code in Ruby, C++ and obviously Objective-C for the Mac/iOS stuff, I'm kind of an evangelist of Ruby and I'm really interested to see how well the language works for game development.

[Devlin]

Hi there! I'm David Williams, 25-yr old hobbyist developer based in Yorkshire, UK.

My history with programming starts back in the days of the Amstrad CPC, moving onto the Amiga with AMOS/Blitz Basic. When I got a PC, I used Game Maker for a number of years, until I bought BlitzMax, which I've been using ever since.
Most of the games I've made were made in 2006-8 in Game Maker for Windows. I am currently working on a Roguelike in BlitzMax, which is a "sequel" of a Ludum Dare 48 entry I made for LD#16(Explore Quest).

[nyarla]

hey everyone.. i'm brandon.. 30 year old guy from australia. i've been trying to make games on and off since i was 9 or so, but didn't get very far with it until a couple years ago. the first things i finished enough to release were a some DS homebrew games, and then some for iOS. mainly using C / C++ and OpenGL (which, so far, i know just enough of to get some sprites on screen...haven't tried 3D or anything fancy yet). also been tinkering with as3+Flixel a bit. i'm a pretty terrible artist but sort of want to get better at it. i like making music and messing with sound.. used to work at a uni music studio, recording bands and teaching recording/mixing/etc.. i also like to make cakes, a lot. hi!

edit: i'm @cucumberoneye on twitter btw.

[Kyou]

Hello, I'm Kyou, I do various artsy things and I did a chunk of the sprite work in the RunHello games Jumpman and Drum Circle

[mcc]

Hello, I'm Kyou, I do various artsy things and I did a chunk of the sprite work in the RunHello games Jumpman and Drum Circle

(To confirm, if there is art in one of my games that looks good, Kyou almost always did it)

[Noun]

Hi, everybody! I'm Noun. I live in Finland and make games with CoolBasic while I'm not at school or doing anything else. I'm currently working on a top-down shooter called Landmine Crusade. My website is at Nano.fi.

Nice to meet you all!

[picklest]

Hi everybody,

My name is Cihan, I`m 30 and I`m originally from Turkey, but now I live in Poland. I worked for a social games company for 2 years as an illustrator/animator before I moved to Poland last year, but now I`m working on my own game, and its about pickles. I dont know how to code so I am doing the graphics part of this game and a friend is doing the coding.

I have been following some of you and your work from twitter and the web, and this forum is a very good opportunity. I have never been good at telling stuff about myself... here is my tumblr where I put my inspirations.

PS: if any of you want any help with graphics, you can get in touch, if it doesnt affect my schedule, its for free.

[Ed K]

Hello SFC!

I'm Ed, I...
...came the ZX Spectrum->Amiga->games industry route, and now work on software to do with these things whilst trying to figure out if I can go full-time indie dev.
...am mostly a coder (C++,C#,bits of AS3)
...am currently working on finishing Proteus, an ambient musical exploration thing
...am forcing myself not to get sidetracked into working on Termoil, a sort of XCOM/Bloodbowl-inspired tactical RPG
...have a not-very-active dev blog
...am on twitter
...

[Michael Brough]

Hi, I'm Michael, I..
...make experimental abstract not-game stuff, and deep strategic game-game stuff
...go by "brog" some places
...am imitating the style of Ed's post because I'm staying at his place today and we've got a bit of competition going on
...am trying to balance doing a PhD in maths with making games, and not succeeding very well at the moment
...recently released a game called Vertex Dispenser
...have made a bunch of other games for pageants/competitions/jams
...am on twitter as well