Indie Game: The Beard

Celebrating facial hair in indie game development

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Beard

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I love making lots of cool innovative games, like board games.

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I am Fat Knack of Boneloaf. I make bits of Gang Beasts.

http://boneloafery.com/

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Will Lewis is the lead community organizer and founder of the Portland Indie Game Squad, which provides events, resources, and networking opportunities to Portland, OR and surrounding areas.

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James Brown, a director and co-founder of Boneloaf, a small independant game studio with members and contributors working in the UK and USA.

Currently making Gang Beasts.

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Industry vet gone indie, Randy Greenback, is cultivator of luxurious beards and Sr. Creative Director at Relevant Games in Durham, North Carolina

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Kenny Backus (@nihilocrat), vidcon programmer, maker of SWOOOORDS and Sky Rogue. Prefers his polygons flat and sassy.

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Simon Préfontaine of Cashtronauts.

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Dominique Ferland a.k.a. Dom2D, master doodler, game developer and editor of inspiring tumblrs such as GameLogos.

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I'm Stephen Orlando, owner of Robit Studios and developer of Treasure Adventure Game and the upcoming Treasure Adventure World. http://www.robitstudios.com/

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Dr. Ian Bogost, author of Cow Clicker, a Facebook game send-up of Facebook games, and A Slow Year, a collection of videogame poems for Atari VCS.

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Kris Piotrowski and Nathan Vella of Capy demoing their new collaboration with Jim Guthrie, a game called Below, at Venus Patrol's Horizon Conference.

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Daniel Benmergui (not of Sierra fame, but he's obviously been there) actually comes from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Daniel also has a beard. He is making a very different puzzle game called Storyteller. It won the IGF Nuovo Award in 2012.

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Rami Ismail. Business & Development Guy at indie game studio Vlambeer.

If you haven't played Super Crate Box or Ridiculous Fishing yet, you might have at least heard of their never ending battles with clones.

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Oh, it's just, Terry Cavanagh, independent game developer from Monaghan, Ireland, currently living in Cambridge, England, you know, the guy who made VVVVVV and took the indie gaming scene by storm with Super Hexagon. Just him.

Cavanagh is currently working on his new game Halting Problem, which you can read about on his blog distractionware.

He also helps run a freeware website called FreeIndieGam.es. Remember freeware? Yeah, that.

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Ted Martens, artist, indie game maker, co-founder of Hex-Ray Studios, co-creator of an awesome grid-based illustration tool Hexels.

Unfortunately his beard is too awesome to be exposed unpixelled.