   Hello all - and anyone famous here?
  Hi all!First post here at gamedev, so I thought I'd introduce myself. I'm a short time hobbyist game developer, but a long time programmer from Australia.I must say, I've been a quiet observer of the lounge for a few months now, and seen everything from strange testicular growths to mmo hockey game rants. I sometimes forget that there are other forums here other than the lounge! :)Not to waste my first post on just a boring introduction, I thought I'd ask what's the demographic of the people who frequent gamedev? Are most people just game developer wannabes like me, or indie game developers, or are there actually people here who are in successful game companies? Do people like Sid Mier or Richard Garriott come here? Anyone here written any game development books? Or famous in some other way other than growing a third testicle? :)Anyway, nice to finally meet you all.Happy game dev'ing. :)   
  There's plenty of authors here. TANSTAAFL wrote a couple books, Isometric Games with DX7 and Focus on SDL, mittens wrote Focus on Terrain Programming, Myopic Rhino and Khawk wrote OpenGL Game Programming, Beginning OpenGL Game Programming, and Myopic Rhino wrote More OpenGL Game Programming (with many articles from different contributors here at GDNET). Mithrandir wrote some MUD programming books, I think Jim Adams might be around somewhere, he wrote Programming RPGs in DX8 (2nd ed.).And those are just the books I own. There's a lot more authors than that here :X   ;  You might find this interesting: Gamedev Member Map;  There are a number of professionals here as well, though some are more open than others about where they work. Definitely a few who've worked on games you'd recognize.   ;  Mushu: So Myopic Rhino is Dave Astle? Coooool! Jim Adams and TANSTAAFL too. So looks like there will be lots of professional help here then when I build my OpenGL isometric RPG game. :)LessBread: That is a pretty cool tool there. Cool that it doesn't crash the system given the amount of users on GameDev. :) Would be even neater if it was linked to google earth somehow, so I could zoom in to see Dave Astle working on his next book. :)Promit: Any hints as to what games people here have been involved in that I would know about? I know this may be a long shot, but to anyone that worked on Fallout 1 and 2, could you please make Fallout 3. Thanks. :) Oh, and another Jagged Alliance game would be cool too. Oh, and another Myth game.;  I'm Keanu Reeves.Welcome to GameDev!Keanu ReevesGame DesignerAKA "Neo"Play Rumble Box at www.phackett.com/rumblebox;  Like Promit said, there are pros here.  And with that:Buy the latest game I worked on, Slugfest 2006!  In stores soon!   ;  and I am John Carmack... incase you need any help...hahaha no.There are a lot of really good indie developers here. I think that's basically the point of this forum. There are some people here that have professional jobs and work on professional games but I think some of the best developers we have here are working on independent projects and just doing this as a hobby. In the couple years I've been here I have gotten a ton of help and have seen some outstanding games being made. You will definetly get a lot of out it. It's a great community.   ;Quote:Original post by JBourrieI'm Keanu Reeves.Welcome to GameDev!Keanu ReevesGame DesignerAKA "Neo"Play Rumble Box at www.phackett.com/rumbleboxhmmm... Keanu Reeves huh? did you take part in the matrix games? if so then... you're no pro ;);Quote:Original post by Jarrod1937Quote:Original post by JBourrieI'm Keanu Reeves.Welcome to GameDev!Keanu ReevesGame DesignerAKA "Neo"Play Rumble Box at www.phackett.com/rumbleboxhmmm... Keanu Reeves huh? did you take part in the matrix games? if so then... you're no pro ;)Of course he took part! He had to come in and say "whoa" seven times!