I found this while cleaning out archives on one of my servers: The original sketch for the Rocketship Games website.  It’s pretty awesome, in a 1990s-WWW kind of way.  The original site actually had a lot of custom code.  News scripts (blog), forum, link roll Firefox extension, and so on.

The original rocketshipgames.com site design.

My original gaming blog, driven by a custom backend and Firefox extension for posting.

Eventually the site moved to a much less visually busy layout like it has now.  Still though, the top banner graphics have pretty much stood the test of time, which is awesome.  I think you actually could make a layout like this work really well and look like a super pro gaming site.  It’s just tough to make a dark, patterned background like that work well.  Something to think about for a site update in the future.

Centre Rock eventually went up as a free print & play boardgame.  I’m actually really proud of it.  It looks great, plays well, and has well written rules.  It’s just a shame it’s never gotten in front of more people.  I have some vague notion of adopting it into a Flash/mobile game, but we’ll see.  A boardgame people played would still be real cool.

Relic Hunter is also a super super awesome game that I’m real proud of and actually got a lot of plays.  Daryl and I have just never gotten it together to really write down the rules and polish it up.  Hopefully someday…  It’s not for no reason that when Caitlin and I moved into our house I had box after box with labels like “Unfulfilled hopes and dreams.”