The indie video games neighborhood is so small… let’s get to know one another! In order that once we find yourself assembly in individual it isn’t too horrifying. , like I need to know that DrDerekDoctors is a conjoined twin with a nipple on his brow earlier than I truly see him dwell.
Tell us what you are all about… how did you get launched to gaming? What are your passions? What makes you tick? Let’s go! Be happy to pimp an internet site or artwork or something right here, too.
I will begin, and I will rock it so exhausting so that you will all be shamed to rock it even more durable:
My identify’s Derek, and I am the editor-in-briefs of TIGSource. Everlasting Daughter, I am OK, and Aquaria are the video games I mostly related to.
I appear like this after I’m driving the subway with out having slept:
How did I get into video games? Once I was very younger my uncle purchased a NES for my cousins hoping he might get into it with them, but it surely ended up being ME that bought hooked. Tremendous Mario, man! It was wonderful. From then on, I began designing video games on paper with my pals. When my mother and father bought a pc, the very first thing I did was begin making video games on them. The remaining, as “they” say, is historical past.
I have a tendency to love plenty of various kinds of video games. My all-time favorites are usually that method as a result of I affiliate them with good recollections with household and pals… because of this, my (incomplete) listing could appear a bit pedestrian. Oh nicely! 
When Zelda 3 got here round, wow! That first sequence while you’re wandering round within the rain, attempting to observe Zelda’s voice, actually blew my thoughts after I first performed it. What an extremely tense introduction.
The Zelda collection has all the time had a fond place in my coronary heart due to the time I spent enjoying it with my dad as a teen.
Phantasy Star II – Fantastic RPG for the Sega Genesis and one other one I performed with my dad. Together with having nice presentation, it additionally contained one of many saddest occasions in videogame historical past (a minimum of for me): the dying of Nei to Neifirst. *Sniff* 
Road Fighter II – My good friend’s dad would make us say Buddhist mantras 1,000 for a single quarter to play this recreation, and we might fucking do it simply because we had been so obsessed! Significantly, it was all we talked about for like 3 years. Till this recreation got here alongside:
Doom II, natch! I will not say a lot about this one. I used to be approaching my teenagers when this got here out and, what can I say, I dug the nice graphics and excessive violence.
Castlevania: SOTN – Pure 2D gaming bliss after such a drought of fine 2D video games. I used to be like an outdated man being launched to Viagra after years of impotence.
To be trustworthy, I have not performed an indie recreation that I’ve fallen in love with the best way I did the video games of the NES/Tremendous NES/Genesis period. Undecided if that is as a result of I am too outdated now to be wowed the best way I used to be after I was a child or whether or not I simply have not performed that magical recreation but. Cave Story undoubtedly got here shut:
One of many issues I (and I do know Alec, too) need to seize with Aquaria is that feeling of bliss when enjoying these video games of yore. While you get so caught up in a narrative or concept that you simply lose observe of time. If even a single participant skilled that from the sport, I would die a cheerful man.
In order that’s me in a (game-oriented) nutshell. What about you?
Good to satisfy you! I am Rossy, and I stumbled into gaming by way of a basic Mario Bros. console. Captivated with storytelling in video games and am at present hooked on indie titles like Punch Hero. Excited to be a part of this neighborhood!
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