Echo Bazaar got nominated for the Escapist's Best Browser Game of 2009, which was like, whoa! Just now we won, which was like, whut?

So here's the thing. I'm standing at the awards party, dazed from gin and jetlag, and the screen is full of cut scenes and footage from Dragon Age and L4D2 and other epically magnificent games. Or Scarygirl and Time Fcuk, in our awards category: both very striking (as well as very fine) games. When EBZ comes on, they have to pan the camera across the UI, because you know we don't have any actual moving images or anything. So there's a glimpse of Paul's marvellous header art for Veilgarden, and then it's a looong pan across mostly beige, mostly text.

I was slightly embarrassed at that (although it didn't stop me taking pictures with my phone and MMSing them to the team at, um 6am UK time: to their credit, none of them have divorced me). But the more I think about it, the happier it makes me, and the more impressed with you it makes me, because if you're reading this blog, you've probably been playing EBZ, which means in an era of genuinely kick-ass games with various kinds of kick-ass graphics you have been devoting your time to a game which is mostly beige, mostly text. I think that's sort of fabulous. Thank you.

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