An introduction, of sorts.

[narilka]

Please tell us a bit about yourself and how you got into gaming, a bit about yourself, what your favourite games are. Let's get comfortable and get to know each other!

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[rivenwanderer]

OK, I'm not sure whether I'm a gamer or a person who plays games, but I mostly think that's a silly distinction. So!

-MYST. RIVEN. (ehh, and I guess the rest of the series too ;) ) These games are what got me interested in computers; their fandom is what got me started on the internet. (I even started a myst comm on dreamwidth, to be sneakily spammy :p)

-Other point-and-click adventure games, to a lesser extent; flash room escape games are a recent obsession (there are hundreds of them out there on the internets!). I keep meaning to play through more highly-rated text adventure games, but I'm a visual person and tend to miss the eyecandy.

-I like the Zelda games and Katamari, but I don't own a console

-Kingdom of Loathing! I'm a ridiculous Level 24 Disco Bandit at the moment :D

-Sometimes D&D; sometimes LARPing; I still haven't *really* gotten the hang of roleplaying in the sense of taking on a character who's not just a thin re-visioning of myself, but I like it in theory and would like to get better.

-Knytt Stories and some of its fan-made expansions (like Gaia) are so much fun and so pretty

That's the majority of what I care about at the moment. I tend to be a jack-of-all-trades sort of person in whatever I do, and gaming is no exception, so I'm always on the lookout for something new and shiny :)

[narilka]

Welcome to the community, Rivenwanderer!

I don't think we make the distinction here between a person who plays games, and a gamer. We're all here for the same thing, right?

I just downloaded Myst for my iPhone last night. I really loved that game when it came out, I'm looking forward to playing it again on the iPhone.

I'm not familiar with Knytt Stories, what is that?

[rivenwanderer]

Knytt Stories is a free platformer style game in which the main goal is exploring. You don't collect coins or kill monsters, but you collect abilities along the way that let you better avoid monsters and that let you explore more areas (a bit like Zelda in that respect). And it's free and has a pretty usable user-created content system. Oh, and the music is lovely and the graphics are pretty and pixely and the player character is a fairly gender-neutral (only made of a few pixels, after all) female. This youtube video has a fairly in-depth look at it, including a bunch of gameplay video (though I think the video's narrator is a little annoying).

[supermouse]

Thanks for the rec. I'll have a look.