I'm hoping if we have a BOGO that it will be on the weekend so I can finally take advantage of BPM with it.
I don't know how much work it takes to port a game from one device to another, but it seems like once you pay for the original game to be developed that it wouldn't add an incredible amount of money to adapt it to other markets.  I've been playing Christmasville on my tablet and it's not as bad as I thought it would be to play on the smaller screen, thanks to the zoom feature, but my first choice is still a nice big PC monitor.  I hate my laptop screen, it's only 15 inches. 
I've started Christmas Carol, I'm loving it  It's basically The Nutcracker, just a different story, and I'm liking this story better.  Oh, and I've played several of those diarama type puzzles, I really like them.

I read somewhere that said that ERS decided they needed more time on the game and that it will be released next Christmas.

WendyDarling wrote:

I'm hoping if we have a BOGO that it will be on the weekend so I can finally take advantage of BPM with it.

 
But Felix already gave SE buyers a nice Christmas present.  He released the SE of MCF ony 24 days after the CE, and the SE of Christmas Carol was released a mere 17 days after the CE.

When we didn't get a CE BOGO in October, I was resigned to waiting until Christmas.  I'm going to be very sad if the November BOGO was in lieu of a Christmas BOGO.

I found out about both of the last two games I posted about from jayisgames. I don't know if there's much interest here in browser-based online games, but (for anyone who isn't already familiar with them) jayisgames.com is a great site for these types of free games.

They do reviews of many types of casual games: free online games and download games (both from the types of developers who sell at BFG as well as from a lot of indie game designers) and increasingly mobile/ios games.

There are so many different types of games there, although a lot of them are less polished than the games you find at sites like BFG. But when I start to feel like I'm playing clones of the same few basic game types, I tend to head over there to find something a bit different. A lot of times I just pick one of their Top Rated games at random and have found some great games that way.

I haven't been going there as much in the past couple years, but some of my old favorites are:

-Hoshi Saga and it's sequels - gorgeous puzzle games where the goal is just to find a star in each puzzle - sometimes easy, sometimes very challenging

-Grow series - totally unique series where you have to make things happen in the correct order (hard to explain, but so so brilliantly fun). It's about determining the relationship between things that are not intuitive necessarily, but it does make it's own kind of sense. One of my all-time favorites!

-Rebuild[/url] and [url=http://jayisgames.com/archives/2011/10/rebuild_2.php]Rebuild 2 - zombie defense strategy games where you reclaim a zombie infested town

-Bloons series - tower defense games where you have to pop all the balloons (with your monkey defenders) before they get to your tower. And puzzle games where you have to figure out how to pop all the balloons w/your monkey's darts.

-Sushi Go Around - cute, simple little TM where you make various types of sushi for your customers. It was bought (at least I'm assuming it was bought because it's completely the same) by Youda Games and released as Youda Sushi Chef, but I still like the original

-Daymare Town series - super moody point-and-click adventure games

There's a whole huge genre of room escape games that I feel like fans of HOPAs and adventure games might like (though there are no HO scenes, you just have to solve puzzles to figure out how to get out of a room). Anyone ever played any of those?

Again, a lot of you probably already know about this site and these types of games. I've just been visiting the site again recently, and it's been making me want to share some of my favorites.

Tirama, sorry you got rejected.    But it does sound like you may have been lucky!