lilyr - I spend part of teh day looking at BoomZap's Facebook Page.   They had not posted any artwork from either of their two FTP glames in almost a year.  Lots of ads looking for programmer with iOs and Android experience.  Lots of ads looking for CS people fluent in England and an Asian Language.  Ditto ads for QA people with those skills.

They have hundreds of photos of themsleves at various gaming conventions showing off their new mobile games.  And sunny beaches, those photos all have been 'like' by BoomZap employees.

No prmos for the updates to either AK or ART in over a year on their Facebook Page.  When I had traveled backwards to May 2014, I stopped looking.  The decision to drop these two games was made a long time ago. 

I finished Jack quite recently and didn't care for it at all.  All you did was make badges.  The story was almost good but it needed a bit more fleshing out.  I hinted my way through it.
I'm still stuck on Level 75 of Hidden Wonders 3 and there's no way to skip it.  Even if I went back through everything and played without a timer I wouldn't be able to get through it, there is no timer, all the empty spaces fill up so quickly and you don't have anyplace to move, time has nothing to do with it.  I don't understand why devs make something with no "Skip" available.  What's it to them if I skip something?  I would like to be able to skip it and then go back and replay it if I felt like it.
I'm still in the M3 mood but I started Island Tribe instead.  I have the Gamehouse Super Pack with games 1-5.  I don't like it much because there's no timer, so it doesn't seem like there's any challenge.  Like I said, I like a timer with the option to skip, or play untimed for a level.  I should be playing Royal Envoy or Garden Rescue instead.

BZ is a business, but if they wanted out of the HOPA business, why did Monica spend so much time on the BZ forum and on Pondfriends encouraging people to give her ideas for what they would like to see in the next Awakening game?  Why were the HOPA games released in the last 6 months of 2014 promoted more highly on Pondfriends than on their own Facebook page?

I'm okay with ART ending, in a way I'm relieved that it's ending.  I don't want to assemble that turtle again.

But I'm sick over the way AK has been left without an ending.  All that playing and never finding out who the claoked stranger is?  And it's pointless to ask BZ what the ended the ending to be.    They'll just trot out a canned answer about contacting BF.

Tirama -- I agree, some sort of ending to AK would have been very welcome.  And a simple Queen Sophia comes home and all is right with the kingdom shouldn't have taken all that much effort.   Oh well.

I'll take a look at my list of CEs that I want.  I might get one.

Well, I went and looked and there's only three games I want so I'll pass on the Bogo and use PCCs on them next month.  I'm thinking Fear for Sale, Dark Romance, and the one where the princess is trapped in evil vines and the CE has glass shards to collect, it might have Reflections in the title.  I'm hoping some good M3s come out, that's what I'm in the mood for.    I finished the first Island Tribe, hope they put some kind of timer in the later ones.