Games development

[caff]

Anyone here into game development in any way? Either as an indie, professional, coder, artist, musician etc.?

I've been a plain old apps developer for years, but I've always loved games, and was wondering if others here have dabbled in games programming like myself.

Never yet released a game because it's hard to find a decent original niche in the market that could sell, and that I would enjoy working on, for me to warrant putting the effort in.

 

[caff]

Yes I can see mobile phone / PDA-type device games taking off in a big way, but I don't own a flashy phone or PDA to try it out with. The market seems so varied in terms of technology and I wouldn't know where to start.

Writing stuff for Windows Mobile devices could interest me but I suspect I'd need to learn Java, C or something fairly low level. I'm definitely not a hardcore coder, I'm more interested in the design and fun side of games.

At present I'm using a fairly basic (but pretty powerful) games dev language called Blitz3D to write stuff for 98/2000/XP/Vista (it's DirectX 7) which is great fun.