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Venture Arctic Launch Numbers

Venture Arctic Release Data below! ([url=www.pocketwatchgames.com/demo]Demo Download, 22MB[/url]) I'd like to ...

Author Andy Schatz Date 06/19/2007 (5:01 pm) Comment 9 comments

Pocketwatch Games Donates to The WILD Foundation

I've been sitting on a little piece of Pocketwatch Games news for a little while now: [edit oops! just noticed the fine folks from gg put this in their news section as well, I suppose I'll leave it...

Author Andy Schatz Date 05/14/2007 (12:34 pm) Comment 9 comments

Pics from VArctic's Chelsea show

Hi there, just an update on the show at the Chelsea Art Museum in NYC where Venture Arctic is on display. Donnie Bugden reports to me that the show is going extremely well. People are really digging...

Author Andy Schatz Date 04/06/2007 (1:48 pm) Comment 8 comments

Venture Arctic showing in NYC Art Museum

A prerelease version of [URL="http://www.venturearctic.com"]Venture Arctic[/URL] is currently showing in the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City. If you are in the area, go check it out! Venture A...

Author Andy Schatz Date 04/05/2007 (3:01 pm) Comment 6 comments

History of Pocketwatch

I had a lot of epople ask me in the past few weeks why *I* got to host the IGF. I'm not as well known as many of my colleagues, and there are certainly many with bigger sales numbers and more fans. ...

Author Andy Schatz Date 03/14/2007 (3:34 pm) Comment 14 comments

The IGF Awards Ceremony

WHOA. Walking into the empty room beforehand and seeing 4000 empty chairs got my heart racing. I definitely felt a little nervous when I first walked out on the floor, but once I got through the fir...

Author Andy Schatz Date 03/09/2007 (4:47 pm) Comment 15 comments

Long tail with Digital Distribution

Thorbrian over on http://www.indiegamer.com just posted some extremely interesting aggregate sales data from [url=http//www.reflexive.com]Reflexive[/url]. [url]http://foru...

Author Andy Schatz Date 02/28/2007 (4:02 pm) Comment 9 comments

my 15 minutes...

Thought I might mention this, since no one seems to have noticed... [QUOTE]The 7th annual ceremony will be hosted by Double Fine founder and 2006 award recipient Tim Schafer (Psychonauts, Grim Fand...

Author Andy Schatz Date 02/13/2007 (12:11 am) Comment 17 comments

Steering at-risk kids towards Game Dev

I spoke today at the http://www.switzercenter.org/ (Torrance, CA, in LA) to high school juniors and seniors that were severely at-risk from their home life, gang lif...

Author Andy Schatz Date 02/08/2007 (4:54 pm) Comment 8 comments

Navigating the world of online distribution

I just posted a http://forums.indiegamer.com/showthread.php?t=9804 to a thread over on IndieGamer.com, and I thought some people here might be interested in reading ...

Author Andy Schatz Date 02/02/2007 (7:00 pm) Comment 7 comments

Venture Africa as a teaching device

Sorry to post twice in a day, but I just discovered some other cool news about http://www.wildlifetycoon.com. The author behind the Mister Teacher blog has begun [url=http:/...

Author Andy Schatz Date 01/18/2007 (6:20 pm) Comment 12 comments

Venture Arctic PREVIEW on GameTunnel

I hate blog posts that sound like advertisements or PR, but I'm lazy so I'm copying our news item from our website here: :) GameTunnel has posted a glowing preview of [url="http://www.venturearcti...

Author Andy Schatz Date 01/18/2007 (2:46 pm) Comment 6 comments

IGF Feedback

We just got our anonymous judge feedback for http://www.venturearctic.com for the 2007 IGF. Obviously a bit disappointing that we didn't get nominated, but I kinda expected ...

Author Andy Schatz Date 12/13/2006 (2:52 pm) Comment 15 comments

Gamasutra IGF interview

Gamasutra is running a series call "Road to the IGF" where they interview developers of some of the 2007 IGF entries. They just posted the [url=http://gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=11...

Author Andy Schatz Date 12/04/2006 (9:02 pm) Comment 6 comments

Venture A. Poet in World Poetry Slam Qualifying Competition

Artie Moffa, the college friend of mine who wrote the poetry in http://www.wildlifetycoon.com, recently took 4th place at the Boston Poetry Slam Quarter Fina...

Author Andy Schatz Date 12/01/2006 (4:02 pm) Comment 3 comments

Video and new website

Been posting here a lot, but I thought I'd mention that we just completely revamped the look and feel of the Pocketwatch Games web presence with a new [url=http://www.pocketwatchgames.com]WEBSITE[/...

Author Andy Schatz Date 11/20/2006 (3:11 pm) Comment 8 comments

Indie Fortune Cookie Wisdom

Indie Fortune Cookie Wisdom I've learned a lot about the business of making and marketing games from following the independent game development community. Each are these are one of the many nugges...

Author Andy Schatz Date 11/13/2006 (6:22 pm) Comment 2 comments

Be in the credits and the new E3

If you'd like to be in the credits for Venture Arctic, I've just started a thread over on our forums about fan-contributed Animal Facts. [url=http://www.pocketwatchgames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=...

Author Andy Schatz Date 11/06/2006 (9:17 am) Comment 5 comments

Sales Stats and Venture Africa, 1 year later

It's been 365 days and about 10 hours since http://www.wildlifetycoon.com made its first sale via Trymedia to Josiah Pisciotta. Within 24 hours we had sold ...

Author Andy Schatz Date 11/01/2006 (3:30 pm) Comment 31 comments

Win a FREE copy of Venture Arctic

Hi folks- I'm running a little contest over on our forums. Venture Arctic is getting closer to completion, and we've announced all but 3 of the animals that will be in the game. If you are the first...

Author Andy Schatz Date 10/23/2006 (5:33 pm) Comment 27 comments