ARISTEN OFFERS SPECIAL
FXSTUDIO DEAL TO NEW EMERGENT
GAMEBRYO CUSTOMERS
Promotional offer good now
through December 31, 2008.
BELLEVUE, WA – NOVEMBER 20,
2008 --
Aristen, Inc., a Certified
Partner of Emergent Game Technologies and creator of cross-platform special
effects sequencing solution FxStudio™,
today announced a special promotional offer to game developers who license
Emergent Game Technologies’ Gamebryo platform.
Under
the terms of the agreement, any developers signing a Gamebryo license before the
end of the year will be eligible to receive a free license for Aristen’s
FxStudio Creativity Suite which is
being integrated into Gamebryo. The
only requirement is that FxStudio
licensees must sign a one-year service contract.
“This
is a fantastic opportunity for game teams to get a leg up on visual effects
development. The FxStudio-Gamebryo integration is a complete content
pipeline ready for prototyping or full production environments,” said Toby
Gladwell, Chief Technical Officer at Aristen. “FxStudio provides the
perfect solution for creating visual effects that harness the power and feature
set of the Gamebryo engine.”
“Emergent’s Partner Program enables Gamebryo developers to work with the
industry’s best tools right out-of-the-box, saving our developers time and
money. Our latest integration, with
Aristen’s FX Studio, allows our customers to maximize their special effects
content pipeline while minimizing the hassle of integrating the two
technologies,” said Katie Morgan, VP of Sales and Marketing, Emergent Game
Technologies.
ABOUT
FXSTUDIO CREATIVITY SUITE
FxStudio Creativity Suite
was built using a modular design with true multi-platform support designed from
the ground up. Artists can build
singular effects and specialize properties as needed on a per-platform basis.
FxStudio Creativity Suite
includes:
FxStudio Designer
is a full-featured special effect sequencing tool; artists familiar with
time-based sequencing tools such as Adobe’s Premiere will feel right at home.
FxStudio Processor
is a standalone data processing module that strips tool-specific data from
source files and outputs a packed data format targeting specific destination
platforms.
FxStudio Preview
drives productivity and quality by elimination iteration time.
Effect sequences are created and evaluated in real time.
FxStudio Runtime
creates and manages special effect instances.
Platform-specific runtime modules provide the API and data-management
facilities.
ABOUT GAMEBRYO
Gamebryo has been fully optimized for development on PLAYSTATION 3, Xbox 360,
and PC, and has gained attention as the engine used in Bethesda Softworks'
record-breaking Xbox 360(TM), PLAYSTATION(R)3 and PC title,
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion and on
its just released Fallout 3 across
the same platforms. Gamebryo is also used by EA-Mythic on
Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning,
Firaxis on Civilization Revolution,
and BottleRocket on Splatterhouse.
Gamebryo is a high quality, mature software product that ships with 3,500
pages of fully indexed, searchable documentation. To date, Gamebryo has
been used in more than 250 shipped games titles ranging from massively
multiplayer online games, high-end retail games across multiple genres and
casual games.
ABOUT THE ARISTEN TEAM
Aristen
co-founders Gladwell and Kaplan serve as Chief Technical Officer and Chief
Executive Officer, respectively.
Gladwell is credited as a developer on several
titles including The Matrix Online,
Shogo: Mobile Armor™,
Blood,
Sanity,
No One Lives Forever™,
MechWarrior® 2 Titanium Pack, and the
LithTech™ engine. Kaplan was
Monolith’s engineer on Aliens Versus
Predator™ II, a science fiction first-person
computer game developed by Monolith Productions and published by Sierra,
and as a Lead Engineer on Monolith’s The
Matrix Online.
For
more information about FxStudio and
the promotional offer, visit www.aristen.com
and www.fxstudio.com, or contact
sales@aristen.com.
ABOUT ARISTEN
Aristen, Inc. is a leading developer of creativity enabling tools and middleware
for the interactive entertainment software market.
Aristen licenses FxStudio, a cross-platform special effects sequencing
suite designed and developed to allow game developers to craft world class
visual, auditory, and tactile experiences.
For more information please visit the Aristen website at
www.aristen.com.
ABOUT EMERGENT
Emergent Game Technologies provides flexible technologies and services that give
developers an unmatched range of integrated capabilities for building, testing
and managing games. These proven, stand-alone solutions include the
award-winning Gamebryo game engine used to create hit next-generation games for
the PLAYSTATION®3, Xbox 360™ and PC. Emergent gives developers the
flexibility they need to fuel creativity while reducing risk.
Emergent is headquartered in Calabasas, Calif., and has offices in Chapel
Hill, NC; Austin, Texas; London; Tokyo; China; and Korea. To learn more,
visit
www.emergent.net.
FxStudio
is a trademark of Aristen, Inc.
All other company and product names are trademarks or
registered trademarks of their respective holders.
Media Contact:
Doug Mealy, Online Marketing
and Public Relations, www.om-pr.com.