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The name suggest it all. Jig Art Quest is a jig saw puzzle game. And to be honest with you I am not a huge fun of jig saw games… with exception to this one.

Why? The answer is not so simple.

Jig Art Quest is build around art. Art plays major role in this game and you can see that from the very beginning. Your quest is divided into 6 different themes such as Forest, Water, Snow, Art, Science. Each theme contains 3 unique images. That gives you a total of 18 images (+2 final images). You can play on 3 difficulty settings: easy, normal and hard. You can also enable piece rotation so it makes each setting even tougher. I prefer to play at normal difficulty without piece rotation. I can’t imagine anyone solving the puzzles on highest diffulty setting (700+ pieces).

To help you start you can uncover 8 pieces and one row. This is very nice option. It helps if you don’t place all pieces on the board and try to place them one by one (it’s easier to match).

As I mentioned, I found Jig Art Quest very entertaining. Very nice art and well set difficulty is what I like.

I’ve got only two complains. First of all - quest. There’s no quest, but name suggests that there is one. Then there are only 20 pictures (though each one is of great quality)… if that’s not enough for you, feel free to make your own custom puzzles.

Download Jig Art Quest now!

Runes of Avalon for Linux, our first Linux, title is now soft launched. If you do own Linux machine and would like to play it please do not hesitate to download it. Your feedback is very welcomed. I’ve tested this on Ubuntu 7.04, but it should work on Debian and other distributions as well. Game works best with hardware accelerated OpenGL. May require libstdc++ 5 to work. We’re still learning Linux and will try to provide the best Linux experience at the end so if you find any issues just email me or leave a comment in my blog.

Minna from Grrl Gamer made a nice review of Runes of Avalon. Read more at Grrl Gamer, I’ll just quote few phrases:

Runes of Avalon is at first glance similar to many PC puzzle games I’ve been playing, but there are many little twists to your basic “match three” game that it definitely deserves a second look.

It’s definitely a “must-play” game for me.

We’re also finishing Linux version of Runes of Avalon. Linux is quite new experience for us. It works very well. The game itself runs even better than on Windows. Expect Linux launch next week.

Would you like to know why we make games? Would you like to know how we make them? Read Anawiki Interview at Casual Review.

Are you feeling lucky? Only 2 more days to win a free ANAWIKI game: Runes of Avalon, Maggie the Gardener 2 or Tom’s Hen House. Read more about the contest here.

Here are the lucky winners since Monday to Friday:

• Francis T., France
• Milena H., Canada
• Justine B., USA
• Kate S., USA
• George K., USA

We made a little update today. If you ever thought that the game is too hard you’ll be pleased. Here’s the list of changes:

• you can skip level if you run out of time or space 2 times
• chain-reaction - one activated spell can activate other spells
• frame and board is lighter - if you didn’t like dark gray frame then new one should appeal to you
• you can use mouse roll to rotate tiles

Download Runes of Avalon now! Game available for Windowns & Mac (though update is Windows only at the moment).

As I mentioned in my previous post I’ll draw each day one of each 5 orders and make it free (full refund). Here are the lucky winners for Saturday and Sunday.

Josh R., USA
Samantha B., Australia
Bill N., UK
Andrea C., USA

Thanks for supporting us!

Are you feeling lucky? You can win too (read more).

ANAWIKI is one year old. This is our first anniversary, so I decided to celebrate it a little. Starting today (May 5th) for next seven days each day every one of five orders will be free. For example I’ll take orders from 1 to 5 and draw a number from 1 to 5. Let’s say it is 3. I will give full refund for that order, so it means that it is 100% free. Then I take next 5 orders and repeat, and so on, and so on…

Here’s the list of games qualifing for the contest (all available for Win & Mac):

I’ll be posting each day list of winners (only name and country). Winner will be notified personally.

Are you feeling lucky? I bet you are. Buy one of above products and cross your fingers to get it for free.