new icons from manikus

[Uatu]

Hey manikus, how come not all of your icons are on your home page? (The dragons, etc.)

On another note, I think I noticed a few new icons on your page - was that troll there before? And the martial artist icons? A few others, too...

[manikus]

If you check the front page, you'll have your answers.
I always add to the news when I do anything on the site.

[Uatu]

Hmm - but I thought a lot of those pictures were fairly new... (like the dragons - also, didn't you do some other icons for Silver Blades? I can't find them...)

[manikus]

Um, I'm confused- are there icons you saw that are not on the site that are new? Or, do you mean there are icons on the site you thought were newer than the end of October?

To make things really confusing, there are a few icons that saw their debut on the site a while before being posted here and there are a few newer icons (such as the red dragons) that are more recent than my last update.

I'm starting to feel guilty about not updating the website in a while. The truth is, it's easy to do, but I'm not too happy with the service because they keep sticking ads on when the agreement we had was nothing but text ads, if that. It's a free service, so what can I do? My wife's thinking about launching a domain that would be paid for and maintained by her and I, so when that happens, I'll just tack on my little site. (With her permission of course...)

[Uatu]

I thought I saw some icons you posted here that are not on the site (but I may be imagining things )... I do remember the red dragons, but I thought there were others...

Re Web services... Yeah, a lot of those services do change their rules suddenly sometimes. I have been lucky so far with mine, I guess - no ads is always nice.

Of course, if your wife launches her own domain, that would work nicely

[manikus]

I guess I should do that update- there are the hill giants and a wyvern to go with the two dragons. There are a bunch of small pics as well, but as those will (probably) come out in the next DC release, I won't upload them to my site unless too much time goes by...

[Uatu]

Ah, that's right, you had some hill giants and the wyvern...

Any idea when the next DC release will be, anyway?

[manikus]

Well, I only hear from Tarlanon every few months at the best of times. As far as I know, he and LurchBrick are the only two coders and neither one of them are currently working on anything.

I know that Tarlanon wanted to have releases come out several times a year, but I just don't see that happening without some new blood, or the return of CocoaSpud. (Hey, anything can happen...)

[Uatu]

Hmm - perhaps we should try cooking up some plans on capturing CocoaSpud

- What would attract him back? Some shiny new icons? A spiffy new DC game? A shutdown of the WoW servers?

[manikus]

Maybe if we drew pictures of us down on our knees begging him to come back and started emailing him on a daily basis...
The other day when PAul was asking questions about the status od DC, I was hoping that he would write back that he was interested again, and then we could hook CocoaSpud back in and get done with version 1.0 by the end of 2008 easy. But, PAul is working on something else (DC was always his back-up project - he's been working on his own game engine conversion for the last decade or so). And, I can't find any new projects for CocoaSpud, so maybe he'll get back to us yet.

On a semi-related note, a designer over at FRUA who did some awesome games went away and told everybody that he was done with FRUA, but just in the last couple of days has been back saying that he wants to create one last adventure if there is the interest.