But, what if I were to tell you that not only does this same developer and JA share the same city and the same community, but also the same small residential street?! Impossible? I would have thought so too, but once again truth is stranger than fiction as myself and Mark Darin of Pinhead Games discovered that we both lived on the same street only three blocks apart. Who would ever have believed that two such fanatical – and might I add, good-looking – adventure gamers would live in such close proximity?

So it was that Mark stopped by the JA offices on a muggy, Sunday afternoon to hand-deliver a special pre-release cd-version of his newest game Nick Bounty: Goat in the Grey Fedora. Also included on the cd is Bounty’s first game, A Case of the Crabs, another game Brain Hotel and a lot of neat extras such as various voice-acting applicants and sketches and early scripts.

Pinhead Games – a member of the Just Adventure Independent Developers – creates web-based, point-and-click flash games. Their products are free to either play online or download, though donations are more than welcome. Mark is currently a student at a local art school and programs games in his spare time – Goat in the Grey Fedora has been in development for eleven months – but once he finishes school this December, Pinhead Games may be dissolved as Mark is seeking employment.