Finally, an Experience poll! [UPDATED] Now with Statistics!

[RylandAlmanza]

Country: US

[fruitmaze]

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration	Location
Around 10 years	6 public, around 15 private	Many	Many	Javascript	Computer engineer	30	-	Music	Sweden

[Mike]

19 Years in Uppsala, Sweden, ever since then in Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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[teletubo]

 

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration	Location
7 Years or so	4	Many	not many	Polishing!	Computer Science	27	nope	nope	Brazil

[philfrei]

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration	Location
2.5 years	3 close to finished (playable)	several	file folder full	Java Sound, concurrency/actors	Music BA UCBerkeley with sides of CompSci and Psych/Perception	55	writing a musical tool for a composer friend	interested, happy to consider	San Francisco Bay Area (Albany)

Oldest?!

[EgonOlsen]

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration	Location
13 years	1 on the ZX81, 4 on the C64, 3 on the Amiga, 5 in Java (desktop), 1 on Android	One...more or less	none	How to create an RPG that doesn't suck in my spare time	Master in Computer Science	40	not really	i eventually need a 3d modeler, but i can get away without one for now	Germany

[wingsOrc]

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration	Location
3 years	None.. but a 2d verlet physics engine, chip 8 emu, bugged gb emu and currently on a nes emu	at most one	>10	DSP (digital signal processing)	school	18	im not	nope	Switzerland

[Eli Delventhal]

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration	Location
8 years	Uh... Lots of hobby small ones, several big professional ones	20	50	How to get a casual team working on a game on the side - staying motivated, shipping product	BS in CS	26	One artist, several contractors	Not really, no	SF Bay Area, CA, US

[evilfrenchguy]

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration
5 years	4	2	Too many	Framework/ Code Structures	BS CompSci	22	No one	I would love that ^_^

[aazimon]

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration	Country
12 years	2 small games	1 current project	3 ideas on the back burner		BS Mass Comm (minor in art & theater) Who's further away from computer science then that?	42	None	Haven't thought about it.	St. Louis area, Missouri, US

Woo-hoo! not the oldest.

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[Cero]

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration	Location
~ 6 years	1 mini game, 1 real game currently in development	5-10	>30	some Math, some AI, some OpenGL	working on my BSc in CS (Media-Informatics)	24	Team of 5	Yes	Germany

[Aeroren]

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration	Location
5 years	nothing serious	1	3	Raycasters (I'm not quite sure why )	almost BSc in CS	27	no	open to the idea	Netherlands

[kaffiene]

New Zealand originally, currently California, US.

I'm a New Zealander too : living in sunny Dunedin 

[Archibald]

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration	Location
A few days	around 100 total, 3 of them profitable	2-5	Unlimited	Yes	1x Master and 1x BA	34	Sort of, volunteers that manage my online games	It's complicated	Poland

[pjt33]

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration	Location
13 years	5 commercially published (Java), 3 completed Java4k entries, various others	Half a dozen	Some	Not much relevant to this forum	B.A. in CompSci	Low 30s	No (but previously worked in two small games companies)	Maybe with someone who's good at extremely compact synthetic music	Spain

[noblemaster]

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration	Location
15 years	~20	~5	~30	game design/path finding	Ph.D. in Computer Sciences	37	with artist & modder	depends	Tokyo

[dishmoth]

Because I'm such a maverick, I'm going to answer without using the table.

Number of games developed:

[Typical development time: hours]
ZX81 (Basic): dozens (games were much simpler back then )
ZX Spectrum (Basic): dozens

[Typical development time: days or weeks]
ZX Spectrum (ASM): 8

[Typical development time: weeks]
PC (ASM/C): 2 (plus assorted graphics demos)

[Typical development time: months or years]
PC (Java): 6 (plus 2 unfinished)
Android (Java): 1 (ported from PC)

Nothing commercial (or even commercial-standard).

[Sickan]

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration	Location
7 months	0	1	3	LWJGL, Slick2D, most of things.	None.	13	With another programmer.	Usually. Sometimes I just don't have time, though.	Sweden

I guess this means I'm the lowest in the pecking order.

[feelingtheblanks]

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not So Developed Ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In Collaboration	Need Collaboration	Location
~6 months	None yet	A few	Dozen	Libgdx, Android Dev.	2nd grade in Mathematical Engineering	20	With 3 in appearance, really alone	Not really now	Turkey

[neuronich]

Because I'm such a maverick, I'm going to answer without using the table.

But you haven't answered lots of other stuff.

[ghia]

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration	Location
6 months	0	1	3	Java game development	Universety	31	Open for it	Yes	Sweden

[Jimmt]

Since I'm too lazy to make a table...
Time With Java: 1.5 years
Games Made: 1
Developed Ideas: 3
Not so developed Ideas: 14
Learning: none, learn as I go
Education: self-educated
Age: 12-14
In collaboration: no
need collaboration: no
Location: CA, US

[Sammyster]

Time with Java Games Made Developed Ideas Not so developed ideas Learning Education Age In collaboration Need collaboration Location 7 months 1 1 4 Programming decent games Automation 20 none Yes, sure! Sweden

Lots of Swedes here!

[princec]

There's not much else to do in Sweden

Cas

[Sammyster]

That might actually be true, atleast for the winters

[Apo]

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration	Location
8	27	10+	50+	Objective c and flash	Master of Business and Computer Science	29	With an artist and musician (for the first time)	Yes	Germany

[divxdede]

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration	Location
10 years	2 [1 close, 1 public] in java, 2 (close) older in C++	few	a lot	OpenGL	Master In Computer Science	34	None	Sometimes, an expert in openGL	France

[Json]

Not massively active here but I will chip in as well.

Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration	Location
6	0	Vast amount	Vast amount	Enterprise architechture and design. Games development.	College	30	Yes, but not in games development	Yes	Born in Stockholm, Sweden, living in Warrington, United Kingdom

[tberthel]

Name	Time with Java	Games Made	Developed Ideas	Not so developed ideas	Learning	Education	Age	In collaboration	Need collaboration	Country	Special
Travis Berthelot (tberthel)	12 years	>10	>10	>50	J2ME into Flash	BSCS from UNT	37	I have worked with 3 artist on games and usually have 1 main artist I work with.	I would like to have multiple artist for the same game,  I will start teaching my AllBinary Patform soon,  and I will end up partnering up with or hiring those that learn how to use the AllBinary Platform the best.	Republic Of Texas	Wrote the AllBinary Platform

[ags1]

Since I'm too lazy to make a table (and I even cutnpasted this)...
Time With Java: 7 years
Games Made: 2 (1 not in Java)
Developed Ideas: 1
Not so developed Ideas: 0
Learning: JOGL, scenegraphs, actually everything
Education: BA Hons, BSc Chemistry
Age: 42
In collaboration: no
need collaboration: no
Location: Netherlands