Dino Cave

DinoCave, which started off as an April Fools' prank, was announced shortly after midnight on April 1st, 2012. According to TJ09, it's a dino version of Dragon Cave. Currently the site is at a closed beta stage and users can only join by receiving an invitation code from an already existing member. The announcement read that everyone with an account could send up to ten invites. But this suddenly became difficult, since no one seemed to be a member who was able to send invite codes. TJ then added a notification option which, after users entered their email adress, would notify them as soon as Dino Cave invitations would be available. The notification option also mentioned that if users enter their Dragon Cave e-mail they would receive their invitation sooner and would be given priority access.

Around 8 PM Cave time on April 2nd, several users reported receiving an email. This email included an image that explained the many different colors of Dino eggs. It stated that eggs could hatch into any breed. But the image did not express whether Dino Cave is real or not.

On April 3rd, 2012 TJ09 posted the following message on the Dino Cave mainpage:

"' From the admin:

''Hello all,

Dino Cave started off as a prank. Okay. Now go back and read that sentence again. Started off as. It was an amusing idea for a prank I had at 9 pm the night before April Fool's. There is no beta; in fact, there's not even any real code. The registration page is hard-coded to always give an 'invalid beta code' error, and the login page will always claim the username doesn't exist.

However, you've probably all seen the proposed game mechanics. And from what I've seen, you like them. In fact, most people seem to enjoy the entire idea of a real 'Dino Cave' site. So while I don't have any new site to release to everyone, I'm open to the idea of fun little 'spin-offs' of Dragon Cave. Keep in mind that any spin-offs would probably receive a lot less attention than Dragon Cave gets. That's just a fact of life when there's only so much T.J. to go around.

So perhaps in a few months I'll be posting a legitimate big announcement. Stay tuned.

-T.J. Lipscomb Owner, Dragon Cave'' '"

TJ also stated in this forum post, that:

"' TL;DR: It's not real, but people seemed to like it, so it may become real. Besides, I need to do something with the thousands of rainbow Dino sprites I now have. '"

A few days after his announcement on the Dino Cave main page, TJ posted an image on the invite page. The image is of a series called Dino Riders.

Dino Cave Eggs
There are 361 egg images listed on Dino Cave.



Dino Cave Gallery
Here you can find some screencaps of Dino Cave.