Another yuletide-themed posting before shuttering our virtual doors for the holiday this weekend. Interactive agency Agency.com has created the Agency.com Snowball Fight, a cute little game in which you throw snowballs at people in a variety of Agency.com-officed locations. The best score come January wins an iPod, but I don't think it's the kind of game most people will feel compelled to play long enough to compete.

I remember back in the 90s, most i-agencies created little Christmas greetings like this as promotions of their work. It's basically a meta-advergame. After the bubble burst, this became far less common; it was difficult to justify spending so many man-hours on self-promotion. But the principle remains the same: create a cute or clever holiday game that both sends greetings to clients and potential clients and demonstrates the capabilities of the studio.

(thanks to Nico)