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Play the GIFT OF THE YETI and help BIOWARE give $10k to Child's Play

apotheosapotheos Registered User, ClubPA regular
edited December 2009 in Games and Technology
Happy Holidays!

In an ongoing tradition of doing something for the fanbase over the Holiday season, BioWare has released a small Facebook game to spread Christmas cheer AND raise some money for Child's Play. It is an action-arcade game where you drive a Yeti around a Christmas village "delivering" presents to all the terrified little boys and girls and "help" Santa.

We call it the Gift of the Yeti
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How do you play?
You need
The more friends on Facebook you have playing it the more fun it is and the higher scores you can get.

Why do I care?
It is
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There are only 9 days left until Christmas so lets make sure the full $10,000 is racked up!

So click right here right now and get started: http://apps.facebook.com/giftoftheyeti

(Disclaimer: I worked on this project)



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  • apotheosapotheos Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2009
    If you do play, feel free to post your high scores here. Mine is 295,200 but I ... er... kind of play a lot of it.

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  • EntriechEntriech ? ? ? ? ? Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    This is pretty fun. I'm nowhere near apoptheos' score, but it's definitely worth a play.

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  • SoggybiscuitSoggybiscuit Tandem Electrostatic Accelerator Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I didn't know BioWare had an office in Edmonton. Thats pretty cool. Ive been up there quite a bit in the past month for my job. Nice mall, I've never seen anything quite like it before in my life.

    Will this game be available anywhere else besides facebook? I do not have an account.

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  • HedgethornHedgethorn Associate Professor of Historical Hobby Horses In the Lions' DenRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    133,400, after playing about four times.

    Fun game. Wish there was a way to extend the time limit, though (or if there is, I haven't discovered it yet).

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  • Kris_xKKris_xK Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Everything Bioware does is awesome, including this. In fact, this might be maximum awesome, but I dont have my awesome measuring tools on me right now so it's just a guess-timate.

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  • Alfred J. KwakAlfred J. Kwak is it because you were insulted when I insulted your hair?Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Man, I was going to try out an evil character, but the moral decisions are always so tough in these games! (It's good.)

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  • FireflashFireflash Montreal, QCRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    This is pretty nice. Best score after a handful of tries : 102200

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  • ProsperoProspero Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    After three tries I got up to 102000. Good stuff.

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  • darunia106darunia106 J-bob in games Death MountainRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    70,000 on my first shot.

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  • ProsperoProspero Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Finally! 191000.

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  • METAzraeLMETAzraeL Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Gonna try this out in a second, but I wanted to say that the little yeti next to the name on the OP flier looks like it has a brown hard-on.

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  • grrarggrrarg Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Fernando Melo, Dragon Age producer last week wrote:
    In other parts - expect to see some very cool new items on your 360 next week! (sorry, no, it's not the title update yet, nor Return to Ostagar) As well as a new announcement early in week that will make some BioWare fans happy.
    http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/9/index/114300/12

    Is GIFT OF THE YETI the new announcement he was talking about or is there more coming? DA:O expansion announcement please!

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  • apotheosapotheos Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2009
    grrarg wrote: »
    Fernando Melo, Dragon Age producer last week wrote:
    In other parts - expect to see some very cool new items on your 360 next week! (sorry, no, it's not the title update yet, nor Return to Ostagar) As well as a new announcement early in week that will make some BioWare fans happy.
    http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/9/index/114300/12

    Is GIFT OF THE YETI the new announcement he was talking about or is there more coming? DA:O expansion announcement please!

    Oh no, this little ball of Christmas cheer has nothing to do with the plans Fernando is talking about.

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  • agoajagoaj Top Tier One FearRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I'm going to call it now, I don't care if people think I'm jumping the gun.
    Game of the Yeti 2009.

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Curse my being at work!

    Bioware and Child's Play together? It's combining two of my favourite things!

    So very sold on playing the hell out of this when I get a chance.

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  • Josiah_9Josiah_9 Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Fun little game, played four times got up to 140k

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  • apotheosapotheos Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2009
    The worst thing in my life right now is my coworker with 351k. That son of a bitch must pay.

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    apotheos wrote: »
    The worst thing in my life right now is my coworker with 351k. That son of a bitch must pay.

    Look, I'm not trying to advocate anything extreme like murder, but I'm sure that the Prime Minister would be happy to hear of your plans for this weekend, should you need [strike]an alibi[/strike] to kill [strike]him[/strike] a little time.

    For a children's charity, no less!

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  • SkyGheNeSkyGheNe Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I can't pass up playing games AND also having it go to a good cause...so I'm in, even though I don't like installing apps. :)

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  • CowSharkCowShark Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    METAzraeL wrote: »
    Gonna try this out in a second, but I wanted to say that the little yeti next to the name on the OP flier looks like it has a brown hard-on.


    Ha ha ha ha ha...

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    First try high score of 69,100!

    ... and yet I struggle to get more than 40-50k in later attempts.

    Truly beginner's luck.

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  • zanmattozanmatto Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Combos are the key.

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2009
    zanmatto wrote: »
    Combos are the key.

    Totally. It's all about timing and a bit of luck, but stringing together a long enough combo is the difference between struggling to get to 70k, and pushing 130k like I just did now.

    Edit; that said, more time spent playing leads me to believe that anyone who got 351k is a gift delivery'ing machine from the future.

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    I was playing this earlier, I was going to make a thread in SE++ but wasn't sure if someone had already made it. My high score is over 100,000.

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  • Lucky CynicLucky Cynic Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Does nobody think of the children!

    No really though, this game is pretty great for a facebook game. It is surprisingly polished and delightful while not at all that time consuming. I kinda wanna "support" this game not because it means more games like this will come out for Facebook (which is a good way to wrest control from Mafia Wars and other dumb web games) but it also helps out Child's Play.

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  • RoyceSraphimRoyceSraphim Registered User regular
    edited December 2009
    Has anyone else opened the calender and read the story of the yeti? How he was once an evil snowman and was changed instead of being chopped into jerk confetti?

    I find it quite hilarious and enjoyed the plight of the heiress.


    146100

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