Hi, folks! Gosh, how time gallops! Why, just ten months ago saw the inaugural post in this ongoing web-log, and look at everything that’s happened since then!
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We’ve seen Peggle released to widespread acclaim in your human world on the iPhone, the Nintendo DS, the XBox 360, the Playstation 3, the World of Warcraft game and Xbox Live Arcade. We hosted a Game with the Peggle Masters event which pitted human Pegglers against the very best the Institute had to offer.
In our ongoing efforts to illuminate the mysterious processes at the heart of Peggle we presented interviews with PopCap producer Matt Johnston, PopCap producer Heather Hazen and PopCap developer Jeremy Bilas.
We had guest bloggers come in to try their keyboard skills on the BjornBlog, folks like Jimmy Lightning, Splork Sporkan, Claude Lobster, the mysterious Undercover Unicorn (defender of justice!) and even a momentary hijacking by my pitiless counterpart at the Peggle Academy, Fnord Unicorn.
Of course, while all these were going on there was rarely a dull day at the Institute itself. We had rainbow delivery fiascos, zombie outbreaks, gravity failures, trips to Azeroth, jungle-island strandings, cat transformations and oyster-induced hallucinations. Once I even found a quarter on the ground!
And we had our celebrated Peggle Art Contest, took in submissions, judged them and invited the winners to PopCap. We even put some Art Contest levels together and I’m most pleased to announce that they’re coming out this very next Wednesday! Finally!
Yep, it’s been a whirlwind of a year, a maelstrom of months in which every new week seemed to promise additional days, hours and minutes. I can’t wait to see what happens next!
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