WOWIGB #18 – Antique Radio Winner: Sf Specht

WOWIGB #19 – Guitar Strap Winner: Jon Lavigne

WOWIGB #20 – Burnt Wood Winner: Brent Shinn

WOWIGB #21 – Headlight Winner: Benji Bader

WOWIGB #22 – Barbed Wire: Doug Lilley

WOWIGB #23 – Banana Slug: Jon S Brown

WOWIGB #24 – Hot Tub: Jon Lavigne

WOWIGB #25 – Stone Park Bench: Al Francis Silos

WOWIGB #26 – Tombstone: SF Specht

WOWIGB #27 – Railroad Tracks: Joyce Y. Shenk Maxwell

WOWIGB #28 – Cat Tails: Janet O’Neil Oppedisano

WOWIGB #29 – Log Cabin: Brent Shinn

WOWIGB #30 – Abraham Lincoln Statue: Tawna Marie Evans

WOWIGB #31 – Scottish Bagpipe Group: Michael Bellinger

Play Where O Where is Gravity Bear here on Gravity Bear’s Facebook Page.

Play Battle Punks here on our Facebook Game Page!

WOWIGB #13 – Toad! Winner: Brent Shinn

WOWIGB #14 – Antarctica! Winner: SF Specht

WOWIGB #15 – Napoleon’s Hat! Winner: Andre Mansi

WOWIGB #16 – Dolphin! Winner: Graeme Hargie

Be the next winner of 5 Newtons, the in-game currency of our Facebook Game, Battle Punks!

Play Where O Where is Gravity Bear here on Gravity Bear’s Facebook Page.

Play Battle Punks here on our Facebook Game Page!

Check out all the latest Battle Punks coverage on our Press Page.

WOWIGB #11 – Hydra! Winner: Cheryl Jonathan-Warpinski

WOWIGB #12 – Tuna Roll! Winner: Chris Hardway

Congratulations, everyone! Be sure to check out our latest WOWIGB on Gravity Bear’s Facebook Page!

Contest #3 -Clothespin!  Winner: Conrad

Contest #4 – Sock Monkey!  Winner: Terri Ann Johnson

Contest #5 – Bear in a Pool!  Winner: Beverly Myshrall

Contest #6 – Umbracle Garden, Spain!  Winner: Darren Bolland

Contest #7 – Baby’s Eye!  Winners: Julianne Jacoboni & Beverly Myshrall

Contest #8 – Bird Feeder!  Winner: Andre Mansi

Contest #9 – Praying Mantis Hive!  Winner: Susan Fickett Keeney

Contest #10 – Weevil!  Winner: Ken Holst

Congratulations, everyone! Be sure to check out our latest WOWIGB on Gravity Bear’s Facebook Page!

Winner:

Stephen Trusty’s entry:  Gravity Bear pie!

Congratulations Stephen!  This entry is currently featured on our Facebook Fanpage.  Stephen will also get access to our Friends and Family Alpha.

Runners-Up:

Second Runner-Up:

Congratulations to Jason Sereno, Christopher Eugster and Vicki Dixon!  Great stuff!

All our Runner-Ups will get early access to our closed beta.

Eiffel Tower

Winner:  Andreas Brynervall!!

Guessed it on the second day!!!

Correctly guessed "Eiffel Tower" off this photo! Wow!!

Contest #2 11/18/09 – 11/24/09

Eiffel Tower

Winner:  Brian Wanbaugh

Guessed it on the 5th day!

Brian correctly guessed "Pork Sandwich" off this picture!

Game startup Gravity Bear is unveiling its first original game for Facebook today. Battle Punks is a “3-D social game” that will debut this holiday season.

The game is set in a variety of fantasy locations, combining in-depth game design with social networking. As such, it’s one of a new generation of Facebook games that aims to deliver a better experience than the simpler two-dimensional games such as FarmVille that dominate Facebook today. Players create avatars and enter them into combat against others in a bid to become the scrappiest fighter in a kingdom.

Emeryville, Calif.-based Gravity Bear, which came out of stealth mode last month, will likely get some attention because social gaming is so hot. Last week, the leaders in the market made a lot of news. Electronic Arts bought social gaming firm Playfish for as much as $400 million; Playdom raised $43 million in venture capital, while market leader Zynga raised $15 million. Even though these hot companies are growing fast, the Facebook market can still accommodate new entrants. Crowdstar, for instance, managed to score big with its Happy Aquarium game, which has 27 million users.

In the game, players battle their way through towns, forests, swamps and more. The character creation tool is advanced enough that players can create one-of-a-kind characters. In battles, players can win weapons, spells, experience points, and treasure. But the company is making a bet that its 3-D graphics will dazzle users, who are more accustomed to lame but fast graphics on the social network.

The game will debut with analytics technology from SQLstream, which measures activity in an app and will allow Gravity Bear to tweak the game to suit the tastes of users.

The company was founded in 2008 by Phil Shenk, one of the many game veterans who came from the diaspora of Flagship Studios, a San Jose, Calif.-based game studio which imploded a year ago. Veterans from Flagship went on to form Runic Games, which we chronicled today, and they joined Cryptic Studios to work on Star Trek Online. Gravity Bear has six employees.