ANN: Alawar releases Snowy: Treasure Hunter 2

[DadTimesTwo]

Free trial version:
http://www.alawar.com/download/SnowyTreasureHunter2.exe

Website (with screenshots):
http://www.alawar.com/games/snowy-treasure-hunter-2/

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Join Snowy the Bear for an all-new adventure

Dale City, Va. - January 19, 2006 - Alawar Entertainment, a leading publisher of downloadable games for the PC, today announced the online release of Snowy: Treasure Hunter 2. Snowy enjoyed his first globe-trotting arcade adventure so much, he's setting out on another journey through exotic new lands! Excitement and riches untold lie ahead in Africa, the Mayan jungles and the Far East. Snowy will have to pack his wits, however, so he can outsmart the agile gorillas, clever snakes and other new enemies that populate these danger-filled regions. When he's not dodging adversaries, he'll be collecting more treasure than ever before.

What you get:

• 60 all-new regular levels
• 30 all-new levels for kids
• Jaw-dropping new backgrounds
• Cunning new enemies to avoid
• Shiny new treasure to collect
• Bouncy new music
• Free online hints

Visit www.alawar.com to view screenshots and download the free trial version of Snowy: Treasure Hunter 2. You can also purchase the full version of Snowy: Treasure Hunter 2 online for $19.95.

About Alawar Entertainment
Alawar Entertainment has been publishing and distributing PC games on the Internet since 1998. The company also runs a network of online game stores and supplementary businesses ranging from a game banner network to a newsletter service. Additionally, Alawar works closely with leading gaming portals such as Real Arcade, Shockwave, ICQ Games and others. The company's developer partners include Dream Dale, Alias Worlds, Media Research Group and more. For information about becoming a developer partner, email partners@alawar.com. To inquire about selling Alawar's games, visit www.alawar.com/partnership/.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
David Laprad
david@alawar.com
615-597-8128

[Kaos]

this is not a bad game as far as platform type games go, infact, it is quite good!

Mouse control is flawless!

Very very good game!

I play it whenever I am not playing tradewinds III.

[TimS]

I wonder if this one will have an ending....

Treasure Hunter was a bit... lacking... in that respect. Great game though....

[DangerCode]

I'm very impressed with the mouse control too. I wouldn't have thought that was possible with a platform type game. It must have taken alot of testing and tweaking to get that just right.

I wish I could select a windowed mode though. These 2D games don't look as crisp as they should when being stretched out to my LCD monitors native resolution.

[Sysiphus]

actually, resizing a 640x480 game to 1280x1024 native 17" lcd monitor that are dirty cheap these days...is quite a task, as to expect it be done without some blurring, I even get surprised it does not get worse...

But I agree lcd monitors have come to make it all more complex ;)

ALso there's banding in every lcd monitor out there, even if subtle...After all they usually only display 262,000 colors, while they can get millions , simultaneously tends to be that or less...

And also the huge gamma and color differences between them...crts tend to be way more accurate, and usually not so saturated as much lcds come by default, or even as they can't do better...

Web page design..lol...now I have to consider from 800x600 on some crts and laptops, till 1280...I usually don't consider more, and to be true, only really worry about 1024 and beyond. At least in games is not that 'nice' play with css or html tables...

I suppose 640x480 though is the safest way for 2d shareware games.

Nice 2d artwork.