The fine folks over at GameTunnel, the premier website covering indie games, just announced their Top Ten Games of the Year.  They selected Venture Arctic as their second runner-up!  Third best game of the year ain’t so bad!

Venture Arctic was named Sim Game of the Year by Game Tunnel, the premier website covering Independent Games.  From the award:

Venture Arctic, like the world it portrays, is a treasure of beauty and wonder. It’s an adventure into the unknown world around us that inspires and excites as players enjoy each new discovery. There are a lot of games available, but few of them are much more than a simple pastime. Venture Arctic is a game that stands out from the pack as being not only meaningful, but also amazingly good. Those qualities made it an easy pick as our 2007 Sim game of the year.

I just spent the weekend out in the Anza-Borrego Desert. I got some great pictures of endangered Bighorn Sheep, and I thought y’all might like to see them.  Click on the thumbnails for the full images.

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San Diego, home of Pocketwatch Games, was ravaged by wildfires over the past week!  Luckily, our office and our homes were spared, though many of our friends and family were evacuated from theirs.  I’d just like to say thanks to all those who helped the less fortunate during this trying week.

Kid Warning: The little web-game I threw together below contains “user-generated content”.  Just like with any forum on the internet, it is possible that there could be a few bad words in there.  It’s mostly clean, but I still need to advise you to proceed at your own risk.  That said…

I’m been doing some thought experiments lately on user-generated content.  Here’s a quick little game I threw together while thinking about conversation trees.

Play The Abrupt Goodbye

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