Introduce yourself

[Bread]

Hello, I'm Bread. I'm a nearly sixteen year old student from Cardiff who has never actually made a game, but has been really interested in starting for a year or two now. I also go by the name Techyworm in some places, but I haven't really done anything worth linking at the moment.

[Jonas]

Hi! I'm Jonas. I've been making games for about a decade now, though I'm more of a writer/designer than I am a programmer (because my programming skills suck). My best-known game is probably The Infinite Ocean. Sometimes I also write stuff.

[AnthonyHJ]

I am Anthony HJ and I might have met a few of you, I was the long-haired Linux-user at the TIG Jam in Cambridge who was completely out of his depth and trying to do everything in Ren'Py or PHP... I think I also worked very briefly with Mattias when we both worked for DR Studios.

I am a casualty of publisher-led development, having spent over four years doing games design and writing before being cast adrift in a round of redundancies this time last year. I tried going back, but my casual projects designed to keep me in practice and improve my portfolio slowly took over until I was starting to think of myself as an indie and feeling curiously relieved that I had broken free of the cycles of crunch and trying to look busy.

One of the curious parts of my last job was writing for a training course on design, trying to teach people how to write design documents, etc. My parts tended to focus on storytelling and I even presented a few lectures on the topic, but it was a little odd to be moving from making games to talking about making games.

The past year has taught me a great many things, not least of all being that working as a designer has left me ill-equipped to make games. I spent just a little too long writing documents and sending them to someone else to implement, so it took a while to a) scale back my ideas now I don't have half a dozen artists and almost as many programmers and b) remember how to do what I once considered simple things like 3D geometry and messing with matrices.

Right now, I am working on a Facebook game and messing about alternately with Stencyl and OGRE. I was working on a Ren'Py project, but set it aside to focus on the Facebook stuff.

[mirosurabu]

Hi, I'm Miroslav and I make flash games. I'm a programmer/designer hybrid. I spent the last 12 months porting flash games, which gave me a decent glimpse into flash games industry, and right now I'm doing my own stuff. I like to complicate my projects and make them seem impossible, then scale them down and realize they are big even in their most basic form.

My twitter: twitter.com/mirosurabu

[FuzzYspo0N]

*dusts off crumbs*

Hey,
Sven Bergström here - Recently Re-indie after 3 years working in the industry here in Sunny South Africa. I am 24, and I am working on a few things (as usual), from games to game engines. Almost all of it is posted on http://underscorediscovery.com .

I am a long time programmer but I tend to stray into art all the time (like i recently helped other South African game dev legends with some web layout http://desktopdungeons.net ), So i generally work alone but looking to change that! I am also a musician of sorts and I really love making games.

I spend most of my spamming on twitter at @FuzzYspo0N.

[Abel Toy]

I really enjoyed reading all of your introductions!

[Draknek]

Hey everyone, I'm Alan. I'm on Twitter as @draknek, my website is http://www.draknek.org/ and here's a list of the games I've made.

At university I started making games after joining Warwick Game Design (I believe co-founded by Dan Lawrence who's already made his introduction here, though I've never met him in person). They organise a 48 hour competition three times a year and I'd take part each time, at first using Java and then with C++. In my final year at university, I organised a team and made a C++ physics engine called Large Polygon Collider as my group project.

Towards the very end of my time at university I started to engage with the wider game development community. I took part in Ludum Dare and in 48 hours learnt AS3 and for the first time ever created my own graphics and audio. All of a sudden I didn't need a team to make something; I could create (terrible) games all on my own!

Before this point I was making games as an interesting programming challenge: I mostly judged the resulting creations based on the quality of their code/structure rather than their merits as a game. Around this time however, I started making games for the sake of the games. I joined TIGSource and went to TIGJam UK2 in Cambridge. I started making a lot of quick prototypes in AS3. A while later I tried out FlashPunk and found that I really liked it: I'm now very active in the FlashPunk community which I think is what I'm most known for. And now I'm slowly trying to move away from quick prototypes towards more completed games. It's a lot of work!

[Dan Lawrence]

I believe co-founded by Dan Lawrence who's already made his introduction here, though I've never met him in person

Guilty as charged m'lud. I came up with the idea & gathered the required signatures oh so long ago now. There was a whole group of great people that first year who helped get things like the website, repositories and so on setup. I'm glad it's still going years later indoctrinating new generations of students with the ridiculous idea that they can make video games.

[Alistair Aitcheson]

Hi everyone. I'm Alistair, and I'm a full-time indie, currently focusing on iOS. My first commercial release, Greedy Bankers, came out in February and I'm planning to release the iPad version this summer.

I learnt to code back in 2001 in Blitz Basic, and I'm also a veteran of Warwick Game Design, just like Draknek! I graduated last year and decided to start up my own solo studio doing what I love - making games ;)

I do all my own artwork for my games, as well as the design and programming. I'm a big fan of simple strategic elements and arcade-style games (short bursts of highly stimulating activity). I also make videos about the development of my work, but I haven't done as many as I'd like to, due to focusing on Bankers iPad lately ^^;


(a little image of what I've been working on recently!)

[Perrin]

Hey everyone, I'm Richard Perrin, friends just call me Perrin. I've been making indie games for quite a while but don't have that many finished projects to show for it sadly.

My biggest complete project is the white chamber a sci-fi horror point and click adventure game.

I'm currently working on Kairo a first person atmospheric exploration and puzzle solving game. Which is now available for pre-order and will hopefully be finished later in the year.

I'm on twitter @perrinashcroft and I have my own blog/portfolio site Locked Door Puzzle where you'll find a ton of my smaller and jam games.

Looking forward to making games with you all!

[The Asking]

Hi all,

I'm a UK (midlands) based programmer. I'm 23 and have been working with a game dev studio since I left uni a little over a year ago. My job is only really tool-side sadly so making games has been a in-my-spare time affair. Only have one game I consider good enough to be seen and that's a simple text adventure I've put on my web site at http://www.guycorbett.com/downloads. I'm very eager to try my hand at some more stuff and hopefully take part in some pageants!

[souleye]

Hi!

I'm not a game dev, although I help game devs out from time to time; I make music!

My name is Magnus. I live in Sweden and I've been into games since I first laid my hands on some Game&Watch handhelds from Nintendo. It then continued with C-64, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200, and later on PC. I love the music those machines had. The gaming music. The OLDSCHOOL gaming music! (Most of) my tunes reflect this; lo-fi samples, catchy melodies, and the retro feeling you get when listening to them.

Even though I'm not a programmer or so, I'm SUPER FRIENDS with Terry Cavanagh after doing the music for VVVVVV (YES, WE ARE SUPER FRIENDS! :D)

Cheers!

Plugging:
Website: http://www.souleye.se
Follow me on twitter: @mpsouleye

[Oz Mills]

My name is Oz, and I work in Dundee, Scotland.

I'm not famous for anything, don't have anything significant to show, and hope that having peers to be judged by will help me work on things rather than sitting around being one of those lazy sods who don't make awesome things.

I don't have much in the way of technical skills, so will likely be using GameMaker, or similar.

I very much look forward to seeing what I can make in these pageants...

[ThreeOhFour]

Hello, my name is Ben and I sometimes make indie games.

I mostly use AGS (Because I am a bit rubbish at programming) and they are all short (because I am a bit rubbish at finishing long projects). Most of them are about awkward subjects like "Feelings" but sometimes they have cool things like "Robots" too.

I like drawing most of all.

Many of your usernames are familiar to me, and I am glad to be in your superb friendship club.

[Suze]

Hi, I'm Suze. I'm 21 years old and training to be an accountant - fun, I know.

I have very little experience when it comes to making games, I haven't been doing it long and have never made anything of note.

Looking forward to starting lots of game projects and never finishing any of them.