puck's peak

Puck’s Peak is currently in the testing phase and we are starting to receive tons and tons of information on this unique, new game!

Puck’s Peak is a tower-building game with unlockable characters and levels where your goal is to stack blocks of different shapes and sizes to certain heights (500m, 1000m, et cetera). Each time a block falls, you earn a strike — so many strikes and you have to start over! Once you build a pile of blocks to the required height, it must stay standing for 3 seconds.

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The graphic artists at Pogo have been busy creating a lot of artwork for our minis. Recently, the following images were created.

Please note: while sometimes game-related mini items may mean a game is going to be deluxe, this is not a deluxe game. In addition, these are not mini awards that will be awarded in game. Right now, they appear to be mini items that will be released either in coordination or shortly after the release of the game. (Pogo did this with Trivial Pursuit last year.)

Puck’s Peak-related Mini items: background, goodie, and costume:

These images may give us a hint to gameplay as well. What do you think?

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Just a quick heads up to let you all know that the game “Block Builder” has been renamed Puck’s Peak.

There are five badges for the game, awarded at ranks 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50.

Rank 10 – Shape Master Badge

Rank 20 – Vine Living Badge

Rank 30 – Fiery Escape Badge

Rank 40 – Ice Angler Badge

Rank 50 – Space Ace Badge

We don’t have a whole lot of other information on this new game, but it’s assumed it’ll be a puzzle game and the badges have already been created. Back in August, we first saw the badges and started discussing possibilities as to what the game will be like. Since then, there hasn’t been much news about this game, but it’s close to being ready for testing, so we should have much more information soon.

As usual, stay tuned here. We’ll keep you posted.

Last night, several people wrote in to let us know that they’d received rejection letters from Pogo’s beta program for this session and some wrote in to let us know they’d been accepted. It looks like this is the final batch of letters to go out. (For those of you interested in whitelisting the address for your spam filters, both the acceptance and rejection letters came from betainfo@fun.ea.com.)

Currently, testers are playing Battleship (we’ve heard a rumor that they’re holding a frag party this weekend!), and soon Risk and Block Builder will be available for testing as well. Keep an eye here for news, rumors, badges and information as they become available!

Congrats to those of you who got in!

For those of you who didn’t: Pogo claims they don’t allow people to test for two concurrent sessions, so you’ll have an even better chance of getting in next time! This session should end somewhere around the end of the year and shortly thereafter the next round of applications will be taken.

Come back tomorrow for our Weekend Open Thread where we’ll be discussing beta applications, among other topics!

Remember those mystery badges we speculated about in August? Well, they’re most likely for a new game Pogo’s got in development called Block Builder (this could be a ‘working title’). It’ll most likely be a puzzle-style game, but we don’t have much to go on at this point. It looks like this game will be tested soon, along with Battleship (already in testing) and Risk (soon to be tested).

I’ll update you with more information as we receive it.

Check out these five badges and chat icons that are in store for a new game.

There’s no official word on what game they will be used for yet, so feel free to take a stab in the comments and give us your best guess!

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