The joy of building an online community

The past couple weeks have been crazy busy, and even a little overwhelming.  We’ve had an early build of Dinowaurs up on Kongregate’s website, and testers have been playing the game to help us find bugs. 

If you’re interested in testing Dinowaurs, drop us any e-mail with your Kongregate username, and we’ll add you to the list!

Despite the commotion, it’s really exciting to see that people are enjoying the game!  All of us at Intuition Games get a certain warm, fuzzy feeling knowing that people out there are actually having fun, even when the game can be pretty buggy and annoying sometimes.

Kongregate has a feature built into their Flash-based chat where you can post a bug report, and the text entered goes directly to the developer.  This has been incredibly valuable to us, since it’s really easy for players to do and we’ve been getting a steady stream of bug reports as new people test the game for the first time.  Most of the bugs have revolved around the same few major issues and several minor ones, but it’s insightful to read through how players perceive the same problem in several different ways.  Keep those reports coming!

KongBR, a Brazilian blog dedicated to Kongregate and its many cool games.

We’ve even been mentioned on the Brazilian Kongregate fan blog KongBR.  Thanks to WillianGallis for a brief mention, followed again by a more detailed feature article.  You guys rock!  We’re really excited and blessed to have such great testers and players so far.

If you haven’t been over to the Intuition Games Forum yet, you should stop by.  Most of the members so far are testers themselves.  In the forum, you can find some more detail on Dinowaurs, including controls, rules, weapon descriptions, and even some new concept art by Ted.  Introduce yourself, suggest something for the game, or even just say hi.  We’d love to have you.

We hope to continue building our community and serving it as best we can.  If our experience so far is any indication, it’s going to be a great one.