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Kristie Masuda from Spymac published a nice little review of Bullfrog last Friday.
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When iDevGames.com announced the 2005 OMG Cup in October I immediately considered entering. A contest was just the right motivation for me to actually start and hopefully finish a game project.
Aside from needing an idea, there were a few hurdles to tackle. Not only was this my first game project in almost fifteen years, it [...]

iDevGames has announced the winner and runners-up for the 2005 OMG Cup.
You can play the winning games as well as all 36 entries by visiting the OMG Cup Downloads Page.

Bullfrog gets mentioned on another French website, Mac à l’école (Mac at School).
Original French Text:
Des jeux intéressants à utiliser en classe issus du concours idevgames 2005… Encore plus de choix cette année (36 logiciels), et avouons-le, nous n’avons pas tout testé !
Pour commencer Bullfrog plaira aux plus petits. Il s’agit de diriger une grenouille et [...]

Bullfrog was briefly mentioned on the french website Jeux Mac
For those of us that are French impaired, here is a snippet from the google translation of the article:

Whereas OriginalMacgames Contest is about to close its doors in order to return its verdict, there it is still possible to go to download the registered plays.
There is [...]

iDevGames has announced the results of the public voting round for the Original Mac Games Cup 2005.
Congratulations to the finalists:

Escort Wing (William Hogben, Stephen Johnson) 8.72
Nball (Matteo Guarnieri) 8.28
MacBornes (Alexandre Colucci) 8.27
Tracktor Beam (Will Thimbleby) 7.88
Pawns (Matt Diamond) 7.86
Pakimono (Joachim Ante, Aras Pranckevicius, Raimund Schumach) 7.81

If you haven’t already checked out entries in the 2005 Original Mac Games Cup, you only have two days left before the public voting phase closes.
On December 15, 2005 the contest will move into the second round where the top entries will face the official judges.
36 free Mac games are waiting to be downloaded and [...]

In Part 3 of this series on the artwork behind Bullfrog, I revealed the revisions leading up to the final version of the Bullfrog application icon.
For Part 4 of the series, I originally planned to begin taking you through step by step as I worked with my artist, Jordan Langille to specify and refine the [...]

The 2005 Original Mac Games Cup has now officially opened for public voting. The submission phase has closed and there are 36 entries.
36 Free Original Mac Games to download and play. All we ask is that you take the time to vote and rate the games you play.
Related Links:

OMG Downloads Page
OMG Voting Page

Update: It [...]

After a ton of work over the past month designing and programming my first Mac game, it is finally finished.
All the final artwork and animation is complete. All known bugs have been fixed. The final executable binary has been packaged and zipped.
Bullfrog has been officially entered into the 2005 OMG Cup and public [...]