STATUS: VIGODA. Long time no update, sorry - we've been working on other things. And by other things, I mean, things that, uh, pay money. All we get from TCFH right now is love. And by love I mean tons of email asking HAY R U DEAD OR WHAT??11!! If that's not love, what is? Anyway, we are alive. We took a break to go to San Diego Comic-Con, had a great time and met some fantastic monster-drawin' artists like Francesco Francavilla and Dave DeVries.Gamewise, we finally got the Giant Plant looking and working right, and it does stuff like shoot explosive seeds and emit toxic pollen clouds. Puddles of oil, water, and other icky stuff are now working. And digging has finally been implemented, so the Giant Ant can do his thing, you dig? There are a few new screenshots up of that.

I've put some gameplay movie clips up on our YouTube page. The quality is, well, YouTube quality (all fuzzy and really jumpy, like Robin Williams), but at least you can get an idea of what the game looks like in motion:

I know a lot of you are annoyed that this project is taking so long. Believe me, we're more annoyed than you can possibly imagine. "What about your Window Of Opportunity?" you ask. Yes, said Window has probably been shut, barred and drywalled over by now. But don't despair! We will go around the front and knock politely on the Door of Opportunity, and if that doesn't work, we will send our cat through the Cat Door of Opportunity after instructing her to swat the key out of the lock on the other side. I will then slide a sheet of paper under the door and retrieve the key when it falls onto the paper. Shazam! We're in Opportunity's living room.

I know this will work because I've read a lot of mystery novels.

But if it doesn't, we will use pieces of Scotch tape and the aforementioned cat's shed fur to craft false mustaches, and, wearing these as a disguise, we will sneak past the stern Butler of Opportunity.

I know this will work because I've played a lot of adventure games.

If that doesn't work, well, we'll just have to make a new Window Of Opportunity ourselves. We have a Sawzall and a crowbar, and we know how to use them.

"B-movies are where it's at."
-- actor/writer Bruce Campbell at Comic-Con

We're back from Comic-Con. Wooo, that was fun. Met Forrest Ackerman. Saw Ray Harryhausen. Saw way too many people dressed as Stormtroopers. Discovered some artists who also dig robots and monsters, like Joshua Ellingson (check out his wicked Godzilla pic) and Mike Sosnowzki. We gave out a whole lotta postcards and buttons, so a great big hello to anyone stopping by who took the time to type in our little URL. Some of you were wondering whether we're going to sell any of the t-shirts. I'm thinking about it, but since they are handmade, they take a good bit of time to make (and, er, we really need to get the screen press out of the living room). But do email and let me know which design you like best, and if there's some consensus, we'll see if we can make some of that style available.

So we're back to work. Gas mains under city streets have been implemented, as well as land and underwater mines. There's little Tech F/X about how monsters throw stuff. And why they throw stuff. And what they can throw. And how cool it is when they throw a bus and it bounces and smushes a whole crowd of tiny people. Yes, we're sick.

BUG OF THE MONTH: THE DANCING WATERS
When a fire hydrant is knocked over, it will remain bouncing up and down on the water flow, instead of just landing on the ground somewhere nearby. It's kinda Looney-Tunes: