Why are you here. And why I am here!

[Nikolas]

Well, I was wondering, what am I doing here in AGS.

I'm new here (two months old, just a baby) but I really like it.
When I needed help, I turned here and I got a lot of help really. And on the other hand I'm offering help to making music, but the question is why.

I'm not gonna get any money from making music here.

But for me at least there are a lot of reasons to be here:

First of all I get to write music for adventure games (which I love, from the age of beep, beep through the computer speaker).
Second I get to meet interesting people, even through the net.
Third hopefully my music, being succesfull  , will be heard from somebody who will eventually want to pay me, so i'll get a job. In other words I'm building my portfolio.

Is it the same for you all? Are you hoping to get into the game industry, or are you just offering and spending quality time by making things you love.

Anyway I found the idea of offering without getting anything in return (almost) at least facinating. Maybe the net is a way for a better world, who knows?

[Ubel]

Is it the same for you all? Are you hoping to get into the game industry, or are you just offering and spending quality time by making things you love.

The last one. For me this is nothing but a hobby. At least for now. But who knows, maybe this could become something bigger. Someday... maybe...

[RyRayer]

If I could make something professional for other people games, I wouldn't charge them, because I don't want something from them. All I want is to make them happy and improve their games, so I think I won't go to any game industry. Maybe if I get talented someday and some game industry will ask me to join, I will go to game industry, but I think that will be impossible . After all, only industries where I'd WANT to join are "Lucasarts" or "EA Games".
And I'm not here just "offering and spending quality time by making things I love", I improve my art skills too.

[passer-by]

Game industry is not in my plans, I have no computer or art related education. AGS is just a creative pastime, along with other things. It is one of the 10-15 ways to channel the energy, creativity and resources I can't use at work. It feels good. It is also a good exercise: " Can I keep promises to myself?". It may not last long, as my hobbies turn to different directions every 10 daysÃ,  : , and it has never replaced other things but it's better than T V. The time I give to AGS is the time I 'd spent watching BB, if I had a T V set...

Both the forums and the game-making are a good company when it is too hot/cold to be outside, when everybody is on holidays and I'm stuck here, when I 'm too tired to work or read, when people near me have a deadline or something and can't talk to me...Why ranting endlessly, boring them to death or having a good, unwanted fight? I code a puzzle instead (well, I ask for help in coding a puzzle more likelyÃ,  )

Everybody needs money, nobody lives on fresh air. But it feels good when you can do things which are not consideredÃ,  a "job". I may go fishing one of these days...Do you think I should make sure I'll sell the fish?Ã,  Ã, I think I will give them to friends and family (if I catch more than a pebble)...This is bad for my pocket but good for my mental balance.

[Matt Brown]

I have no interest in making it in the gaming industry really. I'm a college student studying of all things, political science. I was hoping to be more along the lines of a professor, or prehaps a small time local politician. Who knows. Not in games.

So why do I use AGS, or make games at all? I think the adventure game is a great format to tell a story. I love writing, and i love to make people laugh. I use adventure games to tell a story, and maybe get a few jokes in for my friends. Im working on a political-based game (seriously people!), based loosely on Woodwards "All the President's Men"...but at a university, and a comedy. Maybe there's a way to make an adventure game that people want to play...and at the same time, sneak a few civics lessons/jokes in there. Im about to find out!

[m0ds]

I'm not here! I'm in Athens airport (still!) with CJ, AGA, Helm, Scotch, Grundislav, 2ma2, Farlander, La Lore, Petteri, Disco, JetXL, Custard...

I have no intention of becomming a professional game designer but I do intend to earn an income from making point & clicks somewhere in the future. As with my films, there are a few projects I have lined up for my "master-plan", which adventure-wise will kick off from the release of FoY

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

I'm here because my parents chose to. I always assumed that was the case with everyone. If not, I was under the impression we had to report to NASA or something.

[Nikolas]

I'm here because my parents chose to.

Nice Rui...

I hope you're joking, otherwise ellaborate a little.

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Whoa. Someone asked me to elaborate on my foolishness. Amazing.

I'm here, in this planet, in this world, because my parents decided to couple, thus giving me life and raising me and making me the person I am today - were I not that person, I would not be in this forum acting this way and doing the things I do. I think that's the case with everyone. If not, such people are aliens, and should report to NASA.

EDIT - Ok, ok, serious now: I love stories. I'm trying to become an actor/singer (and I occasionally write stuff) because of that. I want to tell a story. AGS provides me with the perfect tool for creating adventure games, which are a sort of story I love. And the community provides me with several acquaintances I can both discuss serious things with and foolish things with (the latter in #AGS, often). Great escapism, and a reason not to live an actual life when I'm indoors.

[Nikolas]

I did say "I hope you're joking"...

Ok... But know that my son is here mostly by accident. We didn't mean to have a son, so soon in our lives (It seems soon). So maybe your parents are, maybe, not so responsible for you. MAYBE! Don't get me wrong...

[Rui 'Trovatore' Pires]

Now don't take this personal, but when people couple they know the risks. Sure, there are accidents, contraceptives that should work but don't. No one is to blame. Nevertheless, the child is often accepted (when not, is hopefully put to adoption and others will accept it). It means that the couple in question "accepted the rules of the game", so to speak. They take responsability, because, when it all boils down to it, it IS their responsability to take. Even if it comes much sooner than expected or even wanted - that's just a foreshadowing of the many difficult trials ahead than involve raising a child.

[Nikolas]

Now don't take this personal, but when people couple they know the risks.

I don't take it personaly, not by a chance. Though this out of topic. My wife had a coil fitted, and now we she's 27 weeks pregnant. As far as I know the odds are 99.7% that this thing will not happen, but then again if the little guy wants to come out, who are we to stop him.

So there, We're three, waiting to become four, and it never crossed both our minds, adoption or abortion.

[Mr Flibble]

I'm using the AGS forums as a launching pad for my plot to become the president of the American Goat Society.