Bearing a portfolio that would make just about anyone in the creative design industry green with envy, Dan Ferguson and Mike Bielinski are the geniuses behind some of the most popular games to ever get e-mailed to you by all of your friends...at the same time! (...Elf Bowling, to name just one...)
Aside from the scads of adoring fans and the elves constantly running around their office, we've heard that they're pretty normal guys. Yeah, that's it - normal...
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The latest and most hilarious creations can always be found at:
KewlBox Entertainment
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Potential clients and other curious on-lookers are also encouraged to visit their corporate site...
BlockDot
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What do you guys do in your spare time?
Dan: I’m married, with a dog. I’m building a house...and resting!
Mike: I’m not married. I have a son. I do yoga!
What CDs or MP3s are you guys listening to right now?
Dan: Are you serious?! From Johnny Cash to Devo to ABBA...the age group in our office is between the twenties and thirties, but we cover just about everything – we have about 9,000 tracks in our MP3 player. You name it, we’ve got it...
Mike: All obtained legally, of course! It’s very eclectic...
Dan: We play music here 24 hours a day. Our office is in a converted parking garage – it’s really neat. We ran speakers through the entire office, so when we have parties here...we used to have a party on the last Friday of every month, the big keg party at our office that would be like a big industry party, and we’d invite our clients and our competitors, people we’d hired or fired...so everyone would come down here and party and it would just be a real good time.
But lately, we’ve been really busy with business and it seems like we’ve been doing a lot more work than goofing off, but our office is so big, it could easily turn into a club at night!
Editor’s Note: I later obtained a copy of their actual playlist for that day...diverse or eccentric - you be the judge!
Badly Drawn Boy
Deltron 303
Killing Joke
Built to Spill
They Might Be Giants
Boomtown Rats
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet
Dire Straits
Ric Ocasek
Matthew Sweet
VHS or Beta
Paul Hardcastle
Opera's Greatest Drinking Songs
If you were stuck on a desert island, what five things would you want to take with you?
Dan: Dude, I hate questions like this!
Mike: A computer with Internet access...
Dan: ...excellent, so we can get off!
Mike: ...an intelligent, beautiful woman...maybe some suntan lotion?
Dan: I know what I’d bring – a string, a brick, a flashlight, some tweezers...and a stapler.
Mike: I’d probably bring some music, so I can listen to it.
Dan: ...a bunch of food, and a Gilligan-type of generator...not much, I’d probably just run around naked...
Mike: ...actually, instead of the woman, I’ll just bring Ginger from Gilligan’s Island!
Dan: And of course, I’d have to bring my wife!
Who would win in a fight between a Tyrannosaurus Rex and the Queen of England?
Dan: T-Rex?
Mike: Yeah, the T-Rex.
Dan: We’re going with the T-Rex. She doesn’t seem like much – I think I could bat her around a bit...
Mike: Dan’s about the size of a T-Rex...he’s a good-sized guy!
What do you guys want for Christmas?
Mike: Chocolate?
Dan: Peace and world harmony.
Now that the obvious is out of the way, how about some toys?
Mike: I’ll take a Harley Davidson!
Dan: Yeah, I would too!
Mike: A new truck or an SUV – is that considered a toy?
Dan: Besides a PlayStation, one of the other games – we’ve already got a PS2 at the office. We play a lot of Medal of Honor, and we just got the new Grand Theft Auto (Vice City)...except one of the guys around here took it home and I just got it back last night, so I’m definitely going to be playing it this weekend. But you know, something older – like an Asteroids or Blasteroids stand-up machine. We’ve got a pinball machine here in the office, but that’s what I want for Christmas – an arcade game! That’s what I’d take with me on the island, too...
Any final comments you’d like to add?
Everybody play Spank the Frank and buy the upgrades, too. This time around, you get a money penguin which has either a dollar symbol or a Mercedes symbol wrapped around its neck and he’s worth a lot of points if you get to spank him. You also get a love penguin which gets you a life back when you hook up with her. You get to actually spank Santa Nicole and if you’re a power-player and you type in the letters PIE at the beginning of the game, all of the franks turn into Santa Nicole – the whole game is you getting to spank Santa Nicole all over the place! None of these features are available in the regular version, but a mere donation of your choice ($5 or more) nets you some great add-ons to the game and actually helps to pay for it and future releases, too!
Just Laugh magazine would like to thank Dan and Mike for taking the time to talk with us about their presence in the online gaming community and even their own personal lives! It goes without saying that as long as there are office workers with fifteen minutes to kill and a little bit of spare change to burn on some worthwhile entertainment, these guys will most definitely be on hand and ready with a hilariously bizarre new title to distract us from life for a while!
To check out their entire line of games and puzzles, bound to keep your life work-free for days on end, click on the link below the photo to visit the official KewlBox website...
KewlBox, by BlockDot
(left to right - Santa Nicole, Frank the Penguin, Oliver the Elf, Dan Ferguson, Jason McMinn, Mike Bielinski)
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