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Moondance IGF Compilation CD at Best Buy

Name:	Logan Foster
Date Posted:	May 25, 2006
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Browsing the morning news I caught this particular article about how Moondance and CMP have convinced one of the biggest game retailers, Best Buy, to carry this years IGF Compilation CD "IG : Independent Games" (which features a ton of great full and demo copies of games, including a full copy of Dark Horizons - Lore : Invasion).

According to the article the CD has sold 9000 copies via Amazon.com, but this looks to be the first major retail foray for the compilation disc (looks like those bastards at Wal-Mart pulled out at the last minute). Either way its a pretty big feather in the cap of indie games if a store like Best Buy is slowly becoming more open to what we have.

Buy online from Best Buy (US)

Note 1: I have no clue if we make any revenue on the sale of this CD or not, but it looks to be well worth picking up for some great games if you have been a fence sitter and not supported your community yet.

Note 2: Andy Schatz's game "Wildlife Tycoon : Venture Africa" is also available for purchase at Best Buy, which goes to show lighting is hitting the same spot twice.

Buy online from Best Buy (US)

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Adam deGrandis (May 25, 2006 at 15:39 GMT)

Wow, pretty cool. Thanks for the heads up, pal. :)

Josh Williams (May 25, 2006 at 16:34 GMT)

Awesome!

I just saw Wildlife Tycoon at Best Buy the other day, and had to pause and smile for a while. :) Wish I had a camera, that would've been a cool pic.

Ishbuu (May 26, 2006 at 00:36 GMT)

On the site you're listed as "Max Gaming Technology" - I thought it was max gaming technologies ;)

Just being annoying, really cool to get that kinda promotion :)

[Ishbuu]

Markus Nuebel (May 26, 2006 at 13:50 GMT)

That is really great Logan.

I hope they make quite some sales out of it.

-- Markus

Anthony Rosenbaum (May 26, 2006 at 14:06 GMT)

Current Rank is 5,222 on Amazon cool

Vashner (May 26, 2006 at 16:49 GMT)

Grats...

Mark Storer (May 29, 2006 at 15:27 GMT)

And where can we find a list of the CD's contents? The BestBuy page lists only 4.

Jeff Faust (May 30, 2006 at 17:25 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

It so happens that I worked on this compilation... I authored the interface program (in Director MX 2004) that launches the games and also presents screenshots and additional info about the games and their developers.

Below is a list of titles on the CD. (I left off a few titles that are just information and web links.) Also note that some of these are demo versions.

Alien Defense
Base Be Gone
Big Box of Blox
Bridge Construction Set
Creatrix (DEMO)
DDD Pool (DEMO)
Dark Horizons Lore Invasion
Dr. Blob's Organism
Dyadin
Eleminer
Galactic Gladiator
Gate 88
Gish (DEMO)
Glace
Global Defense Network
Jack of All Trades (DEMO)
Laser Dolphin (DEMO)
Mudcraft
Mutton Mayhem
N
Orbs of Attrition
Physical Ed
Plasmaworm
Plunder: A Tale of Conquest
Pow Pow's Great Adventure (DEMO)
Pow Pow's Puzzle Attack
Reactor
Run & Fire
Scrolling Game Dev Kit
Snow War
Spin Cycle
Strange Adventure in Infinite Space
Super Chompers
Super Pillow Fighter
Sweaty Palms
Toybox
Transcend
Triptych (DEMO)
The Witch's Yarn (DEMO)

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