Introduce Yourself!

[Crizzle]

I just learned about this game not even an hour ago and after quickly downloading the demo I can already say that I'm in love. Hope to be getting the full version soon and you'll definitely see me around here quite a bit.

[Mandrake42]

OK, RL my name is Jason. I've been an indy follower for years, mainly due to my love of the now inactive Home Of The Underdogs, which both advocated the under appreciated games of larger developers and also smaller indy games. I played Eternal Daughter years ago and loved it without even realising the same person was at work on Aquaria. I first became aware of Aquaria when saw it in the indy game display room at ACMI in the city of Melbourne Australia, where I live. Since then I've kept an eye on it, especially as my disillusion with mainstream recycling of games became more pronounced and so many best selling games seemed to feature the current year and the name of a sport in the title (Yeah, I'm looking at you EA). I watched, I waited, I played the demo. I bought it.

Fun Fact:   I once tried to buy a barrel of monkeys to test rumoured fun value. Neither the monkeys nor I enjoyed it much. I think we both came away somewhat traumatised. As far as I know they still wander the bookstacks of the city library.

Fun Fact 2: (This one is true) My fave under appreciated game is Beyond Good and Evil

[Battlerager]

My name is Marius. I am (like eric monk) from Germany.
Im 18 years old, and I highly enjoy video games of all type.
Battlerager is my established nickname for all internet related stuff and any creative stuff I do.

My favourite console has to be the SNES, favourite games inlcude (but are not limited to):

- any Mega Man game (love the tight controls)
- Terranigma
- Secret Of Mana
- Plok
- Any Zelda game
- Europa Universalis 3
- Baldur's Gate 2
- Neverwinter Nights

etc. etc.

I never cared much about Indie games, basically because I don't think not being "mainstream" is not automatically better or worse or anything.
Well, to put it that way, I was simply not aware of Indie Games very much. There is (as with "mainstream games") a mix of good and bad games to be found, it seems. I remember that awesome SCHMUP "Jet's N Guns". Is that considered Indie too? Haha, whatever.

I am a composer and guitarist. Being quite the lousy guitarist, I focus more on arrangagement and writing most of the time.


I enter Dwelling Of Duels on a reguar basis, where I record my own rearrangagements of video game music. The results are mixed, but my passion and dedication to video game music stays ever strong.
(shameless plug: http://dod.vgmix.com/)

I can also be found at www.mysongbook.com, where I post music I have written in MIDI using Guitar Pro software.


That's it for now.

[p3ter_st0ry]

Guess nows as good a time as ever to introduce myself 

Anyway, been here a while, and I'm overjoyed now that Aquaria's out.
I'm pretty into macs, so I'm anxiously anticipating the release of the mac port.

And to bring this to a close, let me just mention I'm from 'merica near Boston, and I hang around Bit Blots IRC forums.

Yeah... 

edit: Oh yea, can't wait to take out some epic beast!

[ShinyChen]

大家好，俺叫咣咣俺来自中国秦皇岛，到现在为止也不是很清楚能用什么词语表达我的工作。。。销售啊，策划啊，设计啊，视频制作什么的……
Morning guys, I'm Shiny and I'm form Qinhuangdao， China. Until now I can't use a word to describe my job..
some sales/marketing/design/video editing/documents...

like roller sk8ing and video games! also drawing

I'm neeeeeeew to non-Chinese forums, so should I break any rules could we be cool....?

[Pnx]

Hi my name is unimportant (you'd probably mispronounce it) I'm 16 (though you wouldn't guess it from the way I act) and I currently live in the US (I move around alot and in a year probably won't).

I like games, puzzles, writing short stories and just generally having fun. I am currently taking a course in "Computer Networking & Electronics Technology"  and it has taught me to try to stay away from any job that has anything to do with networking (although the course is about alot more then the name suggests).

I've hung around TIGsource for over a year and that's how I know about aquaria.

3 Fun Facts!

1. The alias PNX/P.N.X./Pn ex has been in use by me for over 8 years. For some odd reason I've noticed an increasing amount of people that are not me using it recently.
2. I devour games, books and anything with a good story in it... and I really mean that, I completed (and by that I mean getting all the treasures and stuff) aquaria a couple of hours ago (roughly 3:30 pm) having bought the game on friday and downloaded it overnight. On saturday I started playing and got to the end with all the memories and 3/4 of the treasures.
3. I think I'm seeing a couple of familiar "faces" when I look around... Hi Xander!
http://forums.introversion.co.uk/introversion/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=56295

[tiamax]

Name: Tiamax
Location: The Seventh Circle of Hell
Strange Fact: I sleep with a stuffed fox to keep the nightmares at bay... As of late she's been slacking off >>
Did I mention I'm 19? XD

[uclaisthebest123]

Hey everyone, I'm uclaisthebest, and as you can tell from my username, I'm a pretty big (I stand corrected: VERY big) UCLA fan, and although I'm only 13 years old, I want to attend UCLA for college (btw, for everyone not living in the U.S., UCLA is a high-profile college with amazing athletics and is one of the top academic schools in the country).

I hail from the Free Lunch Design Forums, where fellow forumites Xiagan, Mush Man, and Crux are from. I found Aquaria in a topic started by Xiagan about a week and a half ago, and upon checking out the site and bit-blog (along with the trailers), I became instantly hooked and downloaded the demo a few days ago. I have one word so far: Amazing. I'm probably going to buy the game in the near future.

[DragonXVI]

Graduate Monkey from Scotland, 22 and currently Games Industrying it up in one of the local companies.  When I'm not making games I'm playing them.  When I'm not playing OR making games I'm probably making music.  Won a BAFTA for making a game wherein you must Rock your Enemies to death in musical combat (Sadly possibly won't reach the public, Team's more-or-less disbanded.  Demo's up but good luck getting the darn thing to run :p It wasn't particularly well tested)

Fan of pretty much any type of game that is in any way "Good". Level 70 Warlock on Warcraft (Stopped playing a while back), Used to belong to a community of Sonic Fangamers (People who made indie games based on Sonic the Hedgehog) aaages ago. 

Have a website, but it's not finished. Or even started. In fact currently it's pretty much a Flash menu I don't like :p

Have many favourite games, many of them are considered "Underdogs" (Um Jammer Lammy, Space Channel 5, Beyond Good and Evil, etc)

[Zixinus]

Hello, I am Andrew, aka Zixinus. I live in Hungary and 17 years old. I like nuclear engineering and... allot of other stuff. I write stuff.

Video games I liked: Psychonauts, Anachronox (well, until the part until it got a little too silly, like having a planet as a companion), Beyond Good and Evil (although, it never actually got beyond good and evil), Zelda 3 (the SNES version) and... breakout.

[LFF]

Hey, I'm LFF/Elefef, I live in England and I've wanted to get Aquaria for ages,  hopefully I'll get it on Christmas Day.

I play several types of games, but mostly adventure, rpg and rhythm.
My favourite games are Okami, Beyond Good and Evil, Aquaria, Gitaroo Man, Guitar Hero II, Rhythm Tengoku, Super Mario Galaxy, Bomberman, most of the Final Fantasy games, Phoenix Wright, Monkey Island and I'll stop here before I remember all the other 100 to list here  .

[aquarius]

hi everyone!

the name's aquaria. yes, that's right, it's aquaria.  i am 26, from japan. (^o^)/
i have just played the demo and planning to get the full version.

fun fact: i train dolphins for a living!! *sooo cute!!!!*
(,^^)Y * Y(^^,)

[Derek]

fun fact: i train dolphins for a living!! *sooo cute!!!!*
(,^^)Y * Y(^^,)

Wow, really?!

You have the best job in the world, then!

[Michael]

Hi, I'm new...

And I can't really think of much to say about myself.

[Passive Fist]

Hi. My name is Aaron. I speak Spanish and English, and mostly I'm a nerd.  My favorite band is Rush and my favorite book is Red Mars. I'd rather play Final Fantasy 6 than 7, and I'd rather play Mass Effect than Baldur's Gate.