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When I was a tender lad of ten, I hatched an idea for a dinosaur racing game. My dad started a program for me to tinker with on the family PC, but I didn't know the first thing about coding so after a while the project fizzled out. But I continued to draw the characters who were supposed to appear in the game for several years after.
His name was originally Compy, but at some point I decided I preferred Nathan.
The Japanese text reads "Dinosaur Kick!!"
Lately, I've been imagining a different kind of game featuring my dinos, specifically a 2D Game Boy-style sidescroller. Something akin to Super Mario Land 2, which is one of the first Game Boy games I ever owned, so there's a lot of nostalgia there.
I'm not promising a video game any time soon, but I do want to tell a story about Nathan and his adventures in some form. I've been busy working on other things, but I really like the idea, so I think we'll be seeing more of these characters soon.