Hi! What's everyone up to these days?
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I went and made my own engine and released a game with it. Nothing big, just a little freebie on itch – https://speveril.itch.io/simplequest. I’ve got plans for more engine work (maybe even a release that other people can use!) and more games there.
The engine is pretty different than Verge in a lot of ways, but its design is definitely informed by Verge… stuff I liked and stuff I didn’t like as much.
I’m also still occasionally helping Grue with Sully but I’m kind of a flake there. Sorry, Grue.
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Hey Overkill!
It’s Darien. Good to see you again. Cool to see you’ve been working on the games industry!
While I never got into programming back in the verge days (mostly just made pixel art and messed around with MapEd or the various sprite editors people made), I eventually went back to school and became a programmer. Currently working as a full stack web developer in SF.
I didn’t do anything video game related for a while but recently started making my first game as a programmer in Godot: https://twitter.com/snowflakestudio . So that’s been fun.
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Hi guys,
I just started freshman year of college (ME-CS double major [I would have done just ME but thanks to Verge I’m studying CS too]). The adjustment to college has been a long one, but with semester 1 almost done I’m looking forward to abusing my vacation time by working on a Java game my friends and I are developing and I have an idea for a new Verge game too! I also am trying to learn some better HTML/CSS/Javascript to make my website a little more professional looking.
I’m still playing around with the story a bit, but Kildorf’s Simple Quest inspired me to keep it short and sweet. I guess this’ll be a test of my not-so-great-but-developing pixel art skills too.
Anyways, it’s great to see this place alive again. Here’s to finishing projects!
-M_Dragon
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Hello!
Some folks may remember me from the 98-02 Verge2 era. That was high school for me and in those days I was big into playing and making JRPGs. I made a handle of Hours or Verge games, but no big releases. I think the most well received was Beyond Babel which was sort of a top down 2D pixel art homage to Fallout 1.
After high school I intended to be a software developer but that didn’t pan out. Not a lot of things panned out for me for a while until about 2007 when I met my now wife. Suffice to say that was the kick in ass I needed, and I now work as a web developer (JavaScript/PHP) and am the father of five (yes 5) kids aged 2 to 15.
Creativity wise, I’ve never quite gotten back into game dev as intensively as I did in the old days. I toyed with making a Metroidvania in the Godot engine maybe a year ago, which was fun. Mainly my creative energy has been focused on science fiction / fantasy fiction writing. I spent 2014 to 2017 or so writing seriously in my free time, and ended up getting a few short stories published. My best piece is probably a short story I sold to Compelling Science Fiction, a Bona Fide professional market.
Lately I can’t seem to find the time (or gumption rather) to focus on much other than work or family. Although I plan to pick up a new or old hobby once the youngest gets a bit bigger.
-choris
Feel free to follow me on Twitter @aaron_a_wright. I follow a few other Verge guys I’ve found from the old days. Can’t say I’ll post much!
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@bengrue said in Hi! What's everyone up to these days?:
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Some people are just shy, Grue.
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Hey there guys ,
Bluestar here (Matt) , just wanted to say hello - I miss verge! Lots of good memories from my pre- and high school days. I really value what I learned from some of the people involved with verge. Many good times in front of a computer screen. Part of me wishes I had pursued video game art as a career.
My wife and I just moved into New York state. Hudson valley area. I’ve been tattooing full time and make a living from my art for ten years now. I spent a lot of time doing portraiture , since moved on… I am doing a lot of work with stain on wood nowadays.
I really miss being involved in the creation of video games. I still play games frequently, recently I’ve been loving hollow knight. I’d absolutely love the opportunity to make some art for video games . I don’t have a lot of digital art experience, although if I had to create tile set and sprites I don’t think that the software would be too complicated. I really still love pixel art.
I had a long battle with alcohol abuse, stayed sober for three years and now I’m trying my hand at controlled drinking. My mind is my worst enemy. I have good days and bad days but frankly I am blessed.
Miss you guys, hope I hear from y’all more on this board. Check me out on Instagram if you want . @cloranthy -
Worked for EA several years, got some health issues because of the stress and everything. I have mostly recovered, currently at a temporary job, and working on a new project, more ambitious than previous ones, but using some nice tools to organize my work (https://www.worldanvil.com). It’s titled “Record of the Dragon Goddess”
It’s about a world created by a Dragon God, and how things don’t go as he expected. The story follows the actions of his two offsprings, Amaxis and Draxenath, as perceived from the mortals’ perspective. I have been working on an “Interview with the Dragon Goddess” as a form of introductory series of texts.
Record of the Dragon Goddess blogI hope to join you on Discord soon.
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