Cheeky Dingo Entertainment

As things are coming together for the HouseBoy app game, we are now looking forward to the second smart phone game title that we will produce - Drag Show, the contentious drinking game.

Of course, it will not have to be played with adult beverages, but there will be special content with recipes for all the creative names of drinks we have come up with.

As we discovered with HouseBoy, the digital realm frees us to make the games work in ways that are impossible with printed cards and other real-life bits.  So, for those of you who have played the physical card version of Drag Show, be prepared for a whole new world of sassitude and rhinestones with the iPhone version of this marvelous game!

This is for my fellow writers.  It comes from my favorite author, Steven Erikson, who used the voice of one of his characters (a poet) to address what may be the most common criticism of the author's own work.  What many criticize is precisely what I find to be one of his greatest strengths.

"A tale is what it is.  Must you have every detail relayed to you, every motivation recounted so that it is clearly understood?  Must you believe that all proceeds at a certain pace only to flower full and fulsome at the expected time?  Am I a slave to your expectations, sir?  Does not a teller of tales serve oneself first and last?"

This thought can apply to any creative person and their audience.  I say, "Be not afraid to depart from the common axioms of your craft, for therein may lie true voice and fresh expression."

A picture of the prototype of Dog Walker, the board game.  We're excited to start play testing it and work out the kinks.  We will also be getting a feel for how we want the app version of the game to work, which will be quite similar to the print version.

In this lull of activity while the HouseBoy app developers are on vacation, we are taking the opportunity to work out some more details on Dog Walker.  The glory of the digital medium ought to allow us to take most all of the dog submissions from fans and turn them into playable game elements since we are notl imited by how many cards we can affrd to print for the actual tabletop version.

It's kind of exciting to think that you will potentially be able to filter your dog draw pile in the app game according to breed or family submission.

Stay tuned!

Chayne and Russ are hard at work drawing new images of the 6 HouseBoys for the iPhone app.  The new images will be used during chore actions and during hook-up actions in the game.

More concepts were settled upon for the upcoming HouseBoy "interviews" video session we'll be filming next month.  Excpet all the irreverence and comedy that you're getting used to seeing in HouseBoy offerings.