Dinowaurs Private Alpha Testing Underway + New Website

Shhhh… We’re Alpha Testing, don’t tell anyone!

This wee bug was no “gomez” or “zaphod” but he certainly was a worthy $@%#ing adversary.  BG Bug, we salute you and pray for your safe return to Hades.

We opened the doors to private alpha testing on the Kongregate forums on April fools day.  Some we’re skeptical, but the rest were excited.  So far only a handful of dedicated troops are testing the game now, and doing a great job of finding bugs galore.  The experience has been a little overwhelming, but totally awesome at the same time.  The response to the game has been better than we expected, and we’re looking forward to having more fun with it as we open the doors even wider.

Willian Gallis, a writer from KongBR (A Brazilian Kongregate blog) has written a Portuguese article on the Dinowaurs alpha.  He’s an alpha tester.  Luckily I have a few latin-language friends who helped me read the comments, we hope Brazil has plenty of fun, we tried to make it as globally accessible as possible.

If you are one of the OG testers that sent us an email last year, don’t worry you’ll be in on things soon enough, we’re sending you out special invites today sometime and then we’ll get you fixed up with some delicious dino-ing.  We’ve found Kongregate’s chat and bug reports to be invaluable
throughout this process, and we’re really excited with the progress
even after a couple of days.  Here’s a shot of the alpha, to whet your palette. 

We only have 4 players playing right now (5PM CST) but tonight that should rise with a big load of new invites.  Great job testers! (Maybe we can find a better “team name” for “the testers,” post something in the forums guys.

One final note, we’ve been getting some questions on the Kongregate forums about if the people who signed up last year will be getting invites too.  Don’t worry your invite is in the mail, you just need to send us your Kongregate UserID in an email.  Thanks for sticking with us, and enjoy your dino-ing.

Website Engaged (fiancé-kind)

Sorry Blogger, Wordpress has been flirting with us and she finally broke up with her boyfriend, so we did what any indie nerd would do.  Propose marriage.

The website isn’t completely perfect just yet, (nobody is, we learned that in our college relationships) but it’s functional and way easier for us to manage and keep updated.  Flash was another girlfriend of ours (in websites) and she was really hard to talk to, things got complicated.  Now we have the best of both worlds and hopefully the wedding goes well, you’re all invited!