A thread in which to introduce oneself

skelly

HyggeState that was a cool lil game

whatsarobot

have since only owned Nintendo consoles (sorry!!)

Never apologize. Nintendo games and consoles rule.

Based on everything you said about all of the other games, you’ve got me convinced that I need to play Chicory at some point. It’s the one game on your list that I haven’t yet tried.

Welcome to the forum!!

Absint

Hello everybody, I’m from Rome (Italy)
Following InsertCredit podcasts since recently and can’t get enough! ))
Got there through Tim Roger’s work on Kotaku, which led me to discover the ActionButtonNet reviews archive, and so on until I got here in this beautiful forum.

Happy to be here!

exodus

Absint welcome! When I went to Rome I was recommended a video game store by some friends, which was deep in the suburbs. When I got there the store was closed despite their hours saying they should be open - I waited there for 4 hours, going around to nearby ruins, waiting at a cafe, seeing a very sad second hand shop, and they never opened. I talked to my friends and asked what was up, they called him, and apparently he decided he just didn’t want to go in that day, ha ha. So that’s my big impression of video games in Rome so far!

Jaffe

My big impression of video games in Rome is Total War

◉◉maru

Absint

ahahahah man, I somehow missed the chance to play Shadow of Rome on my ps2 at the time, I really have to play that one finally one day.

Brandon, I love that story , it’s sounds so much like the typical Rome experience ’xD

Imagine, I ve lived there 25 years and I wouldn’t be able to suggest you anything regarding videogames in my city … I don’t think there’s much going on there still today.

I left Rome at 25, moved to Paris, then Madrid, Poland for a bit, and now Barcelona is where I live.
I go back only to eat certain food, see some scenery with my gf and see some family.
It’s nice goin there from time to time, but I wouldn’t live there to be honest ': )

Absint

I’m guessing there must be something new I’m not aware though, going around in Rome now. Some indie studios for sure. In recent years a good school about concept art opened there, I went once, met some nice people and a good teacher from San Francisco that was giving a class there.

I guess I might not be up to date on everything happening nowadays there ': )
But still, probably not much.

MoH

i have been posting here for a little while now, mostly in the book thread, but i wanted to give an official hello.

came to insert credit by way of action button and it quickly secured the spot of the only podcast in rotation–since covid started, my only “commute” time is when i walk my dog. i lurked the forums now and then, but it wasn’t until @exodus asked for chair recommendations that i was compelled to make an account, as i had just gotten a chair of my own.

anyway, i’m from detroit and live in phoenix now with my wife (arizona is great–don’t listen to the haters). i have a masters in creative writing, but i just work in tech. i speak a little 日本語.

穴

MoH (arizona is great–don’t listen to the haters)

I was in Tucson last week and I declare myself a hater not of Arizona but of the sun being too close to Arizona.

MoH

穴 tuscon is awesome! i was also there last weekend. it used to be significantly cheaper than phoenix (and in some ways still is), but a lot of the historical houses have been getting scooped up and remodeled into gorgeous but prohibitively expensive homes.

what did you do down there? driving up to the top of mt lemmon outside town would have gotten you about 25 degrees cooler.

穴

MoH i tagged along with some friends who were driving there for a little art exhibition thingy and it was also an excuse to go and see tucson friends

jormundor

Hello everyone, im from the UAE. I’ve been following the podcast for over a year now and I always meant to join and never got aroud to it till now. Been going through the backlog of podcasts/essays and there is some really cool stuff in there. excited to be finally here.

◉◉maru

jormundor Kessen III ! Also known as Pikmin with angry Japanese warlords. That’s an interesting choice. I have not thought about this series in about fifteen years. Do you have strong opinions about Kessen? Should Koei look back to Kessen? It’s one of the very few PS2-era Koei joints that they have not re-examined in recent years.

Jaffe

jormundor I hope U Are Entertained

bpelectric

Hola all. I put off listening to this podcast for a long time cause non-scripted ‘conversational’ style content isn’t really my Jam, but at some point around the pandemic I gave it a shot and quite enjoyed it. I’m of a similar age to Brandon/Frank/Tim and have been a gamer all my life. Fun to listen to like-minded people with similar experiences talk about games. Even back on NeoGAF I lurked more than posted, so will likely be the same here.

Bbtomb

Hi everyone! I’m Brandon (they/them) and I haven’t posted in a forum since 2011, at the tender age of nine. What was I doing on the computer at nine years old? Frequenting this LittleBigPlanet fan forum, apparently!

A couple years ago I found Action Button on YouTube. Tim’s Pac-Man review was the first video essay I ever liked; I loved the way he talked about games not as bad movies but as, like, games. Soon I’d watched the rest of his video reviews, read a few dozen of the old ones, and caught up on every episode of the Insert Credit show. Now I’m on here!

But way before that, when I was still in high school, I almost found Insert Credit twice: once in 2016 when a Rock Paper Shotgun article on Videoball highlighted a few of Tim’s old essays (I didn’t read them), and again in 2017 when I drifted straight past the Insert Credit billboards in Oh, Deer! (I didn’t read them).

Oops! But I wasn’t ready anyhow. If my developing brain was exposed to Bullet Witch I would be a graphic designer right now instead of an amateur game dev.

Jaffe

Bbtomb Welcome Brandon! Here’s a brief history of my own youthful game designer ambitions

HeavenlyHalberd

Bbtomb Welcome! I’d love to know about any game designs you have in progress and follow their development! I love hearing from game developers!

Bbtomb

Jaffe I learn this about myself once a week!

HeavenlyHalberd Thank you! I don’t have much to share at the moment, but I do plan to write a journal-y blog thing when I start finishing projects regularly. Right now I’m just pumping out a lot of baby’s first Unity prototypes lol

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