Better late than never!

Work, Taxes and "Real life" have kept me on my feet this last week so the DUG website is just now being made officially live. I will continue to work on it and tweak it so I can make an official announcement on the RPG boards by this weekend (fingers crossed). Just need to finish up a few bits and pieces, but for now it's up and running. :)

... Almost ready for Prime Time

Work on the official Dirty Unicorn Games website has begun! We have needed a web presence for a long time and 12toMidnight.com has been more than accomodating by letting Dirty Unicorn sort of piggyback off them with forums and lots of great product showcasing. They are a great group of guys and Dirty Unicorn wouldn't be anything right now without all of their help!

Needless to say we really have to create our own internet identity that showcases what Dirty Unicorn is all about and what they have to offer. I hope this look will fit the bill for us.

The design looks great and it's tight, but I fear that we may quickly outgrow it the coming year. We shall have to see. Maybe I should HOPE we outgrow it eh? Small RPG companies live by the rule of sink or swim so if we are going to swim we better get in the water!

Be on the lookout for the site to go live next week at www.DirtyUnicorn.com

The Tritanium AH-VEN-GERRRR

I have had a wild hair lately for things superhero-ish. I dug out all my old notes for a really cool game idea I had and to do "research" I recently tried out City of Hereos. Fun game, but it really lacks any roleplaying element. You can pretty much create any kind of classic superhero that you like however (which is prolly why Marvel is suing them right now). Tons and tons of costume options and good selection of powers as well.

My favorite childhood hero is Iron Man so I created a hulking suit of power armor called the Tritanium Avenger. Actually he wasn't originally called Tritanium Avenger, but much like AOL screen names and Yahoo e-mail addresses nearly EVERY name ever thought of has been taken. You have to get clever with 2 and 3 word names to create a character... or really dumb like ray-mond, buttrcheeks, or DuCkWaD (actual names I have seen - ugh)

I'm not sure if I will actually play it after my free month is up, but for now it's an interesting diversion. Not that I NEED diversions right now (nor wild hairs).

I was never into online games, but now with newer computers and high speed access they seem to have all the lag issues worked out that used to plague games 5 and 6 years ago. Too bad they can't work out the social problems which still do plague them.

In one funny / embarassing experience I teamed up with another player and we fought for a while side by side until he announced "I have to go to bed now" followed by "I'm only 9"
You can imagine how lame that makes a 30-something year old guy like me feel. :O

I also had a teen tell me "cool you're as old as my pops"
I took that as a compliment. My poor ego just couldn't have handled two old-fart incidents ;)

If you happen to play this game and you see a big guy named Tritanium Avenger flying by be sure to give him a shout. :)

Super Bowl Sunday

It's Super Bowl Sunday and I could care less. Not that I was ever a huge football fan, but Pittsburgh vs. Seattle??? Meh.
I won't even be watching for the commercials or the half time show this year *shrug*