And so it begins

Friday the 13th was probably not the most auspicious day to launch a new site, but what the heck... It's not as if I'm suspicious or anything. Anyway hello and welcome to my new blog - eventually (when I get the hang of this HTML malarky) this will turn into a proper blog with comments etc, but for now you'll just have to put up with my ramblings - besides you can always drop me a mail at jon@whitetreegames.com if your really desperate to get in touch.
So today the site went live, shame there were no games demo's to go with it (*cest la vie*) but it shows progress all the same...
I've thought about blogging for a while but until I felt I had something worth while to say, I thought the best bet would be keep shtumm, but now with the development of my first two casual games speeding along I thought it would be time to annouce myself to the world...
So who am I and what do you care anyway...
Well in anwser to the first. My name is Jon Howard and I'm the owner / boss / top developer / general dogsbody of the entity known as White Tree Games (see the about us section for more info). White Tree Games was setup to develop and promote "old skool" classic style video games - what are currently referred to casual games. I'm not (at least not anymore) a hardcore games player, but instead have matured to a more abstract type of game, ones that you can pick up and play for five minutes but five hours later still have you hooked. Think solitare, minesweeper, tetris etc etc etc the net is full of these time sinks and rightly so, according to the latest trends casual gaming is now big business and the big players are starting to take note.
Casual gaming also offers one more exciting benefit (and the one were here for), many people have called it a return to the halcyon days of the one man band, the single developer, the bedroom coder (does using your laptop in the living room count?) anyway more on this next time...