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 [...]

Back in 30 minutes….lunch.

Website Down, a story of epic fail and glorious recovery
  
Back in 30 minutes….lunch.

This is a quote from a Bluehost employee in the middle of a live chat support session with me.  Ponder the ridiculousness of that idea, and you’ll start to understand what kind of emotionally-excruciating experience it was trying to get our website [...]

Dinowaurs in a (new) nutshell

Over the course of development at Intuition Games, Dinowaurs has gone through several design iterations. It’s quite a different beast than when we started. This post is an attempt to explain the new Dinowaurs design in a nutshell.
Premise
Dinowaurs tries to recreate the childhood joy of dinosaurs fighting each other. In the game, [...]

Inspired game idea: Stratastencil gameplay

A friend of Greg’s just linked this to him: “My Paper Mind,” an animation of paper stencil cut-outs, using a technique referred to as “Stratastencil.” The interesting thing is that the stencils are layered on top of each other, and photographed and lit such that the previous frames are visible behind the current one, [...]

Intuition & Dinowaurs Progress Update 1

It has been a little over 2 months since our last update. Many of you are probably thinking that the project has been scrapped or the company went under. Do not fear; we just took a blogging hiatus of sorts. Here’s a rundown of some things that have happened over the last [...]

Dinowaurs Website Launched

The Dinowaurs website has officially launched. There’s a brief description of the game, a note about the release, and some of our early concept art.
More will be added as we go along. Enjoy!

Dinowaurs the First of Six Games for Kongregate’s Premium Developer Program

Finally the day has come! Kongregate announced our game Dinowaurs among the first set of games for their Premium Developer Program. So far, we’ve been mentioned on Gamasutra, TechCrunch, next-gen.biz, and Gamezebo, and interviewed by IGN. It has been an amazing experience so far. As I’ve alluded to before when I [...]