Introduce Yourself!... It Is Demanded

As one of the aforementioned handful I have been goaded into providing the first introduction.

I was hired in January to program our first game, which has after a great deal of changes has metamorphosed into Plain Sight.

I bizarrely decided I would like to write an engine from scratch in a year on my own. After a couple of months I changed my mind and convinced Robin and Damien it would be a good idea to get Alex in (the demanding one who started this thread) to prevent my untimely death.

That's all for now, I must return to the programming.

Hi,

I'm Christian aka derchris.

I'm looking forward for the game, looks like a lot of fun.
How will this be distributed for the 360. Arcade ?

Cheers,
derchris

Hi Christian

Great to have you on board!

We'd love to be on XBLA, but there's also the new ‘community games’’ initiative that looks awesome. We'll have to find out which is best suited for us!

Anyway, In Novemeber you'll be able to play the PC version - this is the port we're currently working on the most...

Cheers
Robin

PS: Afraid I had to change you animated gif to a static one (for some reason it was crazy and huge) - sorry!

I'm Lambo, I'm irish, and I wandered onto this site form the good ol' lads of RockPaperShotgun.com (your link button doesn't seem to work properly...for me at least) I have to say i don't have much else to say but I am very intrigued by your game and can't wait to get my hands on oyur beta (assuming I get a place .........*drops a coin in a wishing well thats at the end of the rainbow while keeping the number seven firmly in mind*)

Hi,

I'm Keith. I currently exist to thank Beatnik Games for linking their FAQ to my company's game. After my thanking them, I will next exist to make another game.

You guys top the pudding! (Oh and hey. Make your robots spew cogs and screws when they're damaged.)

Keith
Mousechief Co.
"We put mischief in your mouse."

I'm Pinko, and I have a problem.

Wait, no. I mean, I love suicidal robots. Sorry, huge difference there, huh?

I live in the West Side of Madion, Wisconsin, USA, Western Hemisphere, Earth, Sol System, Milky Way Galaxy, Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha.

I'm geeky, love gaming, and am crazy excited for Plain Sight.

I'm Ali, and er...I just started school..[dunno]

I found out about this game from Destructoid, and it seems like an interesting concept.
Plus I like robots and swords. =)

[Can't really think of anything else to say...so I'll leave it at that for now.]

I like pie. Video Games are sexy. Submarines are long hard and full of seamen.

I found out about this sexy game from Gametrailers. I was like "Woah man, this is cool!"

So yeah. Love me. Please.

Hello,

I'm an Emergency Room Nurse here in America. I play video games with my boys (college age through junior high) on our P.C.s and Xbox's. We don't have high speed internet out here in the country so we play each other through LAN.

Could anyone at the Beatnik office tell me if there will be any A.I. bots in the P.C. version of your game. If not, will there be offline multi-player through system-link for the Xbox 360?

The video looks great and really helps to explain the game play basics.

Thanks,

Keeshondown

Hey Beatnik Gamers, I'm Demetrious. ^^

Damn, didn't think much further than that... oh! Wait, yeah . . .

I'm a marketing associate with a small firm in Miami, as well as an aspiring writer willing to write almost anything. Heard about the game via Kotaku and I must say I'm impressed. I'm looking forward to the beta and some interesting matches based on the premises of high-flying robots with swords that have to blow themselves up on the sole purpose to do it all over again. Ha! Good times...

Hi Guys
i also stumbled across this page via RockPaperShotgun.
looks like a really fun and interesting concept. I just love these minimalistic designs!
Looking forward to this game!

I'm also one of the drones from RPS. I thought the video and the gameplay described in it looked really neat, so here I am. I've been an internet porn-bot... uhhh, I mean human for all my life. Ever since I was built... no, born!

Hello. I'm Sam, the artist mainly responsible for the creation of the Playgrounds of Joy/ Robot Slaughter Zones/ levels that feature in Plain Sight. I hope they are enjoyed by all (within the target demographic). Word.

wooooo, look at all these lovely shiny new people to play with! Thanks for satisfying my idle whimsy and opening up your personal lives to my demanding scrutiny. I hope you'll all stick around for the foreseeable future.

Keeshondown: Thanks for the questions, they allow us to clarify our game ever more... clearly. I've updated the FAQ to take them into account, but basic gist is that there will be no A.I. bots but you will be able to play the PC version over LAN as well as the Internet. As for the 360 system link, well, it's certainly something we'd like to do, but as we're not focusing on that port yet and so can't speak authoritatively.

Hey Hey... I didn't really happen to find my way by some kind of chance or led by another website, but my good ole friend Alex.. (Alex Best, that is) .. Who was working on some games at Beatnik.. Anyways I usually use the alias (pseudonym? ) EliXiR, but you can call me Luke.. I'm extremely interested in Independant Video Games and plan to follow your company very closely.. I too am trying my best to get into Independand Game development with my sounds and music and also I have designed a few short episodic RPG games for my friends influenced by my own personnal life, I understand how important these projects are and that you've put your heart and soul into all that you have created, like Video Games used to be like before the PS2, XBOX era :[ . Commercial and Retail Video Games dont really do it for me anymore, not like they used to :[ which is why i have turned my back on the console ( unless its Metal Gear or Resident Evil) and opened my arms to the wonderful world of Indie Games.. I look forward to your realease of 'Plain Sight' (psst, spare us a beta key? :/) and give my full support.

Thank You and Goodnight.

Greetings folks, Pie21 here, from tf2strategy.com if you're interested. I too stumbled across Plain Sight through RPS, so a big thanks to them for introducing me to this breath of fresh air. If this turns out to be anything like what I see it as becoming, it gets my buy instantly.

I don't know how many Australians there are around here - hopefully I get to be the first! Also what's the deal with the beta testing? I can't find any information on it except that I can apply.

Cheers fellas, and keep it up!
- Oliver

Im Jack

Found the company through a friend before the game was announced. Wasnt expecting anything half as original as what the game seems to be.

And so, i continue to follow.

Im a Student.

I haven't introduced myself yet – how rude!

My name is Robin; however, as that’s my username, you don’t really need to be Nostradamus to work that out...

I’m the producer here at Beatnik Games. As we don’t really do job titles here, ‘producer’ simply means ‘everything that isn’t programming or art’

Feel free to hit me with any questions you may have about Plain Sight or Beatnik Games – I’m never too far away from the site and will always do my best to get back to you asap..

Feel free to hit him.

I would have said "Hello all," but Alex did that already.
I'm Leausm, or Levi, whichever. I'm not a programmer, and I'm not even sure if my lil' old laptop will play Plain Sight, but I'm desperately hoping it will. If I'm not on my lappy or doing homework, I can be found reading and listening to music. That's about it...
Can't wait for the beta. Oh, yah, I found you guys from theawesomer.com. Loved the trailer.

Leausm

my names Lukas or whatever shortforms of it are avaiable.
i've made an apprenticeship as programmer, but i wont stick to that.
so this winter I will go working in davos (I'm from switzerland).
In my free time i'm alway keen on some new games to try out. i don't really like all those mainstream games, because my laptop is rather antique (3years by now) and they normally bring at most technical innovation.
Furthermore i like reading, listening to music, going out, all the normal stuff one does.

one thing for the end, plz let me beta

Puur

Hello everyone, I'm... Frankly a quite surprised that there's so little impatient flooding here on this forum. Not that that's a bad thing, but I anticipated having to rifle through tons of barely comprehensible posts along the lines of "GIEV ME AL MAH POINTS NAO!!!" and "LET ME PLAY THING SPANKINGLY AWSUM GAME!!!!!11!1!1!!1!one", which I am sure represents the feelings of the majority of people who have stumbled upon this wonderful project, but fortunately people seem to be moderating themselves quite satisfactory.

Anyhow, I'm just a swedish gamer that found my way here... Can't even remember how, it was a long and tired night. I am extremely glad that I did though, this project looks like it has potential to be since swords, or even sentient, point-craving robots were invented!

I feel I can't praise your concept or your designs enough, but praise they deserve!

I'm truly looking forward to playing Plain Sight, and I'm already itching to get my points!!

nice to meet you all!

Just so you all know; anyone who gets involved in the PS community is pretty much guaranteed a spot on the beta (perhaps even something sooner!) ....of course we're going to reward our loyal fans!

Hi,

I'm Cipher and I'm all the way from South Africa .Saw the game on RockPaperShotgun and thought I'd have to take a look. I am currently working for Software company here in SA and have been dabbling in XNA, but I do not have the time always to get immersed in it!

Looks like the game is going to be great, can't wait for Beta Testing! Good luck!

I am the Wombat. All will bow before my wombat wrath. I will crush all my competitors to a fine dust, no, paste, well, kind of a muddy paste made out of recently crushed fine dust. The rivers will run black with the oils and other fluids of destroyed robots, that I have destroyed.

Also, my favourite colour is blue, I like to bake, and I have a little dog named sweetie.

CRUSHING!!!!

Hey everyone. I am a 21 year old student of games design at a widely disrespected university. I've heard about plain sight quite a few times in xna related circles and after a heavy nights drinking, I found that I'd created a forum account on this site.

I'm looking forward to seeing how this turns out. mon the 'niks

Hi there!

I'm a 29 year old programmer and I wish that someday I'll have the guts like you guys to start doing games for $$$! This has always been my dream, but no opportunity for that (yet) where I live..
I came closest to this when I was an alpha tester for Guild Wars for three years...

Anyway, the concept for the game sounds great and I'd especially like to play that on a LAN, I can imagine how fun it would be
I think PS could replace our semi-regular W:ET seances

Hiya, all. I'm Aurin. n.n

I'm a 24-year-old computer science student, and a manic technophile. I'm all over the place on the internet; I love trying new things. The blog spot on indiegames.com lead me to this, and it seriously sparked my curiosity. Creativity, innovation, and, well, pure chaos! These things are practically what I live for, and from what I've seen, this has all of the above and then some.

I look forward to great things, and big explosions n.n

~Aurin

hey im charlie xD and i was playing plain sight at london gamer expo for about 3 hours in total xD yeah xDxD

Lucky bastard

I joined this site, after playing the game at Eurogamer, I can't wait for the beta! Such a sweet game! Keep it up!

I really enjoyed playing this game at the Expo, and, to be brutally honest, it was the only game I enjoyed playing as there were too many sweaty teenagers hogging the games machines downstairs.

I'll make a separate post with my initial views though so, well done so far and keep it up

Like many of the other recent arrivals, I found out about this game at the EG Expo.

Played it for a while on Tuesday in-between my Far Cry tournament rounds, and then played it for a good while on Wednesday as I had to have another go

I signed up for the beta after playing the game at the Expo, and can't wait for the beta to start

hey im Dan like most of the new ppl i played the game at Expo and loved it hehe like other people i 2 kept comming back for more hehe..

Hello there, I heard of Plain Sight I think via Guardian Gamesblog, but I might be wrong and I may have heard the news via one of the other news sources i subscribe to. hmmm.

I played your build at the Indie Games Arcade and felt it compared favourably to some of the games downstairs in being much more immediate pick-up-and-play. Unlike eg. Tomb Raider where I had to spend minutes and minutes working out controls and what something I can grab looks like. Plain Sight and three-button gaming are good things!

Hi, met you guys at EGX and played the game. My friend and I both liked it a lot, excellent manic fun. Apart from Fallout 3 it's probably the game we spent the most time on... oh and except maybe the PS3 demo build of HAWX, but that's probably because it took over two minutes to load a menu (a menu!) and about 5 minutes to load a level.

Never gave you any feedback there and then so I look forward to giving you my thoughts.

Well here i am introducing myself,Met you guys at EGX like several other people i was hooked, the style of the game was nice and the simplicity of the character was greatly interesting to me, I spoke to you briefly about my dissertation on game avatars and then suggested a few interesting things for the game engine (Primarily the ability to change track ect ect), you most likely dont actually remember me at all (id be suprised if you did though) but it was great to be able to speak to a developer about their game and the XNA studio on the same level, many designers talk down to the public but you were friendly and casual and that was awsome.

Signed up for the BETA
ROLL ON BETA DAYS

Hey guys, I'm LewieP. I run SavyGamer.co.uk.

I first played Plain Sight at the Eurogamer Expo, and had a blast with it. I think it was my second most played game there (after Mirror's Edge). A whole lot of fun, and I can't wait to get on the beta.

how do you get to play the game help!!!!!!!!!!!!! im really confused

Hey leo,

The only people to have played the game so far saw us at the Eurogamer Expo a couple of weeks ago. You'll have to wait til the beta starts before you can try the game, which hopefully won't take too long. There'll be an announcement on the site when that happens

Hey, I signed up just to let Plainsight fans know I did a little comic for the game up on my website www.dark-matter-comics.com (this is not false advertising, it's there and it links back to here). I just thought plainsight fans might enjoy it; I drew it for a competition me and a friend of mine are entering. Hope you like it (I normally draw them straight onto computer but felt a little lazy tonight).

I go by the name of Jeshi on the internet.
I signed up to apply to get into the beta because the game sounded fun.

I really can't think of much to put here right now.
Although I can say I can't wait to play the game

My name is Greg and I am a small aircraft pilot in Canada. In my free time I like to ride my motorcycles and check out new tech. I have a bit of computer training, but more so in physics and fluid dynamics and garbage like that, but hey, maybe that will be useful here. Any of you guys at Beatnik every need a cup of coffee to help you through or want to bounce an idea of an outsider, I'm all ears.

Thanks, and you lot keep up the good work so you can enjoy it later.

I come from Kotaku, and was sold the instant the video started playing. Eagerly awaiting the beta!

My name is Aaron, known in-game as Zeno or Zenodice.

I'm a programmer working for a small research company in ON, Canada. I'm a huge game enthusiast and geek alike and I'm just about 25 years old.

Wishing I could have gone to EGX but sadly I don't have the spare time to make trips like that... yet

As for gaming, I've been following Plain Sight off and on since I first heard about it via stumbleupon. Seeing now that you guys are nearing a beta, I'm quite psyched.

The game looks great. I know a PS3 ( PSN ) version is probably out of the question, but I'd thought I'd just put it out there.

Looking forward to the Computer version and hopefully shader 2 support.

Hello guys,

I noticed Plain Sight from some gaming website, but I somehow forget which site it was. >_<

Anyway, the game looks great and I can't wait to play it!
Good luck!

Hi, I'm Klink. I love Xbox 360, and I'll have a new PC Gaming Laptop by the time the beta's out.
Actually I'm not human. I AM a robot.
Ha. Ha. SO original, right?

Canadian, female, writer and gamer, seriously! Not only that I am older than 30, but younger than 50 and I even own and run my own games news sites. In the past I have also worked in the on-line games industry, probably for far too long in fact lol

Heard about this game through the usual press sources, and posted the latest press release from you guys on my site.

Wishing you folks all the best of luck on this title, it looks like a lot of fun already!