How do we make Tiny big?
[As part of Tiny Cartridge’s first birthday, we’re fielding questions all week to see how we can make this second year better. Also, it’s an easy way to get your contest comments in!]
Though JC and I love our site’s mascot, we haven’t made use of Tiny other than propping his smiling face in the sidebar and top banner. He’s easily in the top three of the most adorable game site mascots (Admittedly, he doesn’t have much competition other than Destructoid’s Robot and maybe ToastyFrog’s Tostifer), so it’s a shame we don’t do anything especially interesting with him.
So, we would like to hear any suggestions on expanding the Tiny brand in a meaningful way. More Flipnote animations featuring the humble cartridge striking out on his own adventures seems neat, but that requires talent, time, and/or money we don’t have, and it problably wouldn’t entertain more than a few dozen readers.
What else can we do with Tiny? Merchandise the hell out of him with shirts, fruit snacks, and deodorant? Give him space to write his own articles, much like the Sushi-X days of EGM? Stick him in a DS and play him? Let us know!
See also: Tiny’s CycloDS theme, buttons, Bangai-O Spirits stage, first Flipnote, LEGO form, samurai pose
[Thanks to Mr. Raroo for providing the above Flipnote clip. You can watch more of his animations on his Hatena profile, and read his charming Game Time With Mr. Raroo column at GameSetWatch.]
tags / flipnote / meta / mr raroo / tiny / birthday questions
