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I've updated my tagline accordingly.

Oh, I meant to post this earlier, but I really enjoyed Saturday School. It has some super-cute, super-simple graphics, plus some clever puzzles to boot. And it's playable in a lunch hour.

Edit: Fixed, fools!

Oh crap... there was another game that I thought was hilariously written, it wasn't much of a game but it was about a soldier from DOOM having to buy a present for a boss from DOOM... As you can tell my memory is awesome. Anyway I think it was hilarious!

OMG, are you talking about Harry's 21st Birthday? It was written by one of my best buds here. I play board games with this guy, like, weekly. And the really funny thing is he didn't tell me he had made an AGS game until pretty recently. This is so weird. Small internet!

Nobody reads Finnegans Wake. It's the book that everyone sort of literary owns, but no one reads. Case in point: there's actually no apostrophe in the title.

I follow a lot of indie game developers, and it's pretty cool to see a day when everybody seems to be making progress. It gets me motivated to work on my own stuff.

Me here: http://twitter.com/LivelyIvy. Please follow responsibly.

@Trent: Heather and I figured that the other two guys probably had enough time to shy away from the full autobiography aspect of it. However, we barely had time to come up with an idea, so we went with point-blank obviousness. Also, we have no shame.

@Layabout: Heh, if you say so...

@Stupot: Aww, seriously, your comment made my day. That's way too nice.

I think if we had been called in for any other design topic, I would have been stumbling a lot more. Luckily, with such a giggle-worthy subject, it wasn't too hard to get the audience laughing with/at/near us.

Thanks all!

And fortunately, this was never meant to be a real game.

Sorry for the bump, but there is now a video online.

You know, if you're into that sort of thing.

Hooray, you're back! Now I don't feel like such an old-timer.

Haha, oh my. Flattered but spoken for, I'm afraid!

Ben, that is one of the better cat photoshops I've seen in recent memory.

Ali and Vince, you should work together on that. Also, make an iPhone app, since that seems to be everyone's ticket to fortune these days.

Layabout, don't worry, I'm pretty sure this will come back to haunt me someday. Like if I ever try to run for public office.

fred, I figured I couldn't be the only one who thought so.

buloght, heh, I hope I look a bit less angry than that woman. Also, it can't be me, I've got like a million freckles.

Scummbuddy, you might have to have your own game concept competition at Mittens. Make sure you throw in the word "virginity" to attract media attention.

All the rest, thanks again!

Every time you google me, a lolcat dies.

At least according to CNN.

Many more thank you's, AGSers. This was the first online forum I really got involved in, and now it's been almost four years. Thanks for supporting all my creative nonsense.

My parents found out about this via google

Do your parents sit on google googling your name?

Well, I told them I won something, but then didn't elaborate. I avoided the subject for a day, and by the time I called home they'd already googled it. Let me tell you, this is the wrong century to be hiding things from your parents.

@Trent, that's actually one of the more normal cursors we had in our game concept. My favourite one was a background image of an incredibly nervous-looking dude and a cursor that was a pair of lips. The task was, "Make the first move!"

@Steve, I made sure to tell Mr. Meretzky that I downloaded "Leather Goddesses of Phobos" (and Frotz) while I was in high school. Then he thanked me for making him feel ancient, because the machines the game was designed to run on "had long since turned into silicon dust."

Thanks everyone.

My parents found out about this via google...but luckily they're still proud of me. They even sent me a framed copy of the Forbes article. How is that for awkward?  :

I'm not sure how much "clout" this will give me, but at the very least it means I'm going to GDC next year too, and I get another chance at the competition. Also, Puzzle Bots will very likely be out by then, and maybe I can do a bit of shameless promotion.

And Andail, touche!

Um...me and this other lady ended up winning. And some of the press has been ridiculous.

I've also been getting some weird congratulatory calls from old school friends. As I keep saying, it could be any Erin Robinson they're talking about...

Hey Ben, I really enjoyed this game! The graphics are adorable and very much in your style, and the animations had an impressive amount of detail considering how small they were. I dig the very limited palette as well. I think it's a good exercise, and all the more impressive that you made a whole game around it.

As far as the puzzles went, I got pretty far and then I got hung up on how to get past the guard. I have a feeling the solution must be pixelhunt-y, or I'm missing something obvious. Anyway, a small point; I'll certainly finish the game at some point.

And hey, no worries on "copying" the robots + love thing. The world needs more robot love, I say.

Hey dudes, I don't think I'll be able to make it this year.

GDC is going to be a big expense for me, and I really don't think I can afford both that trip and Mittens. Alas...say hi to Mickey and Minnie for me.

(Also, if anyone else here is going to GDC, I'm giving a talk at the IGS. Come say hi.)

Hahaha, wow. I'm not sure why, but I really laughed at comic "01." It was like buildup, buildup, and then WHAM! no punchline. I'm not sure if it's supposed to be making fun of other webcomics of that ilk, but I think it's awesome. I will read comic 02 if there is one.

Sorry I'm late to the party! I've been in crazy crunch time mode this week trying to hit my next Puzzle Bots milestone.

Thanks for all the love shown to Nanobots! I'm glad so many of you enjoyed the game. And heh, I'm glad Magic Smiling Cat got his day in the sun. Too bad Francisco's audio file wasn't in the game though, it was pretty spectacular.

And now, back to work...

I think that's a really good solution. Besides, when all the text is voiced, I have a tendency to click through it (Sorry! I read fast ).