PopCap Offers New FREE Level Pack for Peggle(TM) Nights Based on Winning Art Contest Entries
By Popcap Games International, PRNEWednesday, January 13, 2010
Five New User-Designed Levels and Five New Challenges - Now Available for Download
DUBLIN, January 14 - PopCap Games, developer and publisher of the world's most popular video
games, today announced the immediate availability of the third FREE "level
pack" for Peggle(TM) Nights. Available for PC and Mac exclusively at
www.Popcap.com/extras/peggle/bonuslevels, the Peggle Nights "Art Contest"
level pack features five all-new levels based on the top entries in the
Peggle Art Contest held earlier this year. The new levels can be played in
the Quick Play or Duel modes of Peggle Nights, and there are also five new
challenges in Challenge Mode based on the new levels.
"We really enjoyed incorporating the contest winners' designs into
finished levels and have been playing them non-stop," said Sukhbir Sidhu,
Studio Director at PopCap and co-creator of Peggle and Peggle Nights. "These
user-generated concepts turned out quite well in terms of playability and
challenge, and it's really interesting and inspiring to see level design
ideas from fans of the game!"
The new levels in the Art Contest level pack feature whimsical "mash-ups"
of PopCap characters and imagery as well as re-imaginings of past levels.
Grand prize winners Matt Ward of Heanor, Derbyshire England (in the adult
category) and Michael and Stephanie Liu, youth category co-winners from
Naperville, Illinois, visited PopCap's headquarters in August to play-test
and provide feedback on the levels based on their designs.
The user-created levels, and their respective creators, are:
- "Bucket Revisited" - Michael and Stephanie Liu (Grand Prize, Youth category) - a redrawing of the classic Das Bucket level with Peggle characters. - "Dynamic Two-Oh" - Matt Ward (Grand Prize, Adult category) - the Undercover Unicorn patrols the streets and rooftops of Pegopolis with his crime-busting partner, Kid Radical! - "Fun Dead" - Anthony Maddaloni - (Runner-up) - a combination of Peggle and Plants vs. Zombies results in a graveyard scare! - "Caykee" - Jessica Kozulbal - (Runner-up) - Caykee the Cupcake presents her argument for inanimate objects as Peggle Masters! - "Peggle 3D" - Brice Johnson (Runner-up) - What if Peggle fully embraced the third dimension? This level presents one possible vision.
About PopCap
PopCap Games (www.popcap.com) is the leading multi-platform
provider of fun, easy-to-learn, captivating video games that appeal to
everyone from age 6 to 106. Based in Seattle, Washington, PopCap was founded
in 2000 and has a worldwide staff of over 240 people in Seattle, San
Francisco, Chicago, Vancouver, B.C., Dublin, and Shanghai. Its games have
been downloaded more than 1 billion times by consumers worldwide, and its
flagship title, Bejeweled(R), has sold more than 25 million units across all
platforms. Constantly acclaimed by consumers and critics, PopCap's games are
played on social networks, the Web, desktop computers, myriad mobile devices
(cell phones, smartphones, PDAs, Pocket PCs, iPod, iPhone and more), popular
game consoles (such as Xbox, PlayStation and DS), and in-flight entertainment
systems. PopCap is the only "casual games" developer with leading market
share across all major sales channels, including Web portals, retail stores,
mobile phones, MP3 players, and game devices.
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International: Cathy Orr corr@popcap.com +353-1646-8107 Ember Wardrop ewardrop@popcap.com +353016468164
International: Cathy Orr, corr at popcap.com, +353-1646-8107. Ember Wardrop, ewardrop at popcap.com, +353016468164
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