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In this world full of hype, welcome to... Painfully Honest News From Pharos Games New Version of Ally's Adventure through the Glass! Ally in Wonderland posters Kathy Salisbury's Blog Pharos Games Affiliate Program Pharos Games on Amazon.com Game Review: Jr. Vet Coming Attractions New Version of Ally's Adventure Through the Glass! After many long days and nights spent updating the graphics and adding new puzzles, we're proud to announce version 4 of Ally's Adventure is off the drawing board (so to speak) and available at a computer near you. We've gone the extra step, and put a pretty complete walk-through on-line for the game too. Even though I say "we" there's actually only one of us here. Maybe we (hehheh) shouldn't admit that, but what the heck, this is painfully honest news after all.. We hope you enjoy the game, because it really looks a lot better: www.pharosgames.com/ally1/ Ally in Wonderland posters We are also having lots of fun these days creating beautiful posters, which have definitely spruced up our office, and could do the same for yours, if of course you're willing to part with $10 or $15! The Mouse in the new "Ally in Wonderland" game is such an adorable critter that we had requests for posters featuring the little guy. You can judge these posters for yourself by visiting our website here: www.pharosgames.com/posters/ You might notice that we are also selling NASA Hubble Space Project posters. This has nothing to do with our games, although someone (seriously!) did suggest we should have "a great adventure where Ally finds herself a stowaway on the space shuttle (with her mouse friend) on its way to do a repair job on the Hubble..." We won't mention who suggested this (Charles) but we aren't really entertaining the idea very seriously at present. Kathy Salisbury's Blog We are doing our best to keep up our daily blog. The discussion might be centered on just about anything, but it usually has something to do with either software or games. Today we are using this newsletter as the content for the blog! So if you go there from this newletter, you might find yourself in an endless loop of newsletter-blog-newsletter-blog. Nah! We're just kidding! But it's something to worry about, isn't it? www.pharosgames.com/blog/ Pharos Games Affiliate Program We've tried to be as helpful as we can to the nice people who want to help us sell our games, by setting up a program with RegNow. RegNow has a new system, with which you can embed your affiliate ID right straight into the download. We hope this works a lot better than cookies, because cookies didn't work... Anyway, we did our part by doing all the work to put the code inside the games that allows the RegNow wrapper to be placed around it, thereby embedding your ID firmly in the download - whew!! and are we ever tired after writing that long sentence. Find out more by visiting our affiliate section: www.pharosgames.com/affiliates/ Pharos Games on Amazon.com We took the plunge - got bar codes and did all the stuff you have to do to get products listed on Amazon.com. We listed the products a few different ways there. We have a package called "Games For Girls" and a package called "Wizardry and Magic." We only have 6 games, of course, so these are really just different combinations of the 6 games. This is known as a "marketing ploy." Game Review: Jr. Vet Pharos Games is not only a game company in itself, but it is also an affiliate of other game companies. Okay, well actually just one so far that we are actually promoting - Curiosity Games! We checked out the Jr Vet Game and found out it's a really nice game that will appeal to a slightly younger audience than our games usually do. The author has a really great idea that you can encourage your younger kids to start thinking about career options. It's really good to have goals, and we mean that sincerely. You wouldn't want your kids to end up being wisecracking freelance game writers, now would you? Heaven forbid! Check out our review of Jr Vet online here: www.pharosgames.com/reviews/jr-vet/ Coming Attractions Our next big project is Ally In Wonderland. We've already recorded the singing cat theme song for the game. We loved it, but in clinical trials, most people felt that it should be sung an octave lower. In our opinion, anything that Ashlee Ryan sings is always perfectly wonderful, but we're arranging to have Ashlee back here to rerecord, and see if we can improve her already beautiful rendition. We are however taking some time off from game development this month, in order to concentrate on doing some promotion and marketing. After all we are really only one person. Ssshhh! Don't tell anyone!! Stay tuned for further adventures, and take care! Painfully yours, Kathy Salisbury Pharos Games