Oh crap, I haven’t even replied to your emails yet, chrism and demonpants. =D
Sorry about that, I’ll get on it as soon as possible!
I guess I could provide some insight on my situation here:
As some of you might now, I currently work full time as a flash game developer. I’m quitting that job for a non-game dev job, mostly in java, to be able to focus on independent game development during my free time.
I expect to experiment some with making small commercial games as well, to see what can be done, and I’m looking around to see if there are any interesting collaborations waiting to happen.
To me, it’s no longer very important if a game is made in java, or what technology it is made with, but since java is my language of choice, I’m very happy this forum exists. It’s produced a lot of really cool stuff (my personal favorite is Java4k), and that it has grown somewhat influential, especially with sun.
We can do better, though. =)
I’ll discuss with the other guys to see exactly what my role in all this is going to be, but I feel a bit out of my depth, to be honest. =)