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Tesseraction Games Licenses Areté Entertainment's Digital GameWare API! Sherman Oaks, CA - (February 2002) - Areté Entertainment announced today that Tesseraction Games, Inc. has licensed Areté Entertainment's Digital GameWare API for use in an interactive online game scheduled for release in June 2002. When Tesseraction Games was searching for a cost saving solution to add photo-realistic, real-time water environments to video games, they found it with Areté's Digital GameWare API, a flexible and powerful middleware product that generates real-time, photo-realistic, physics-based wave surfaces and water environments. This powerful tool will enable the Tesseraction development team to create full ocean surfaces in real-time making their upcoming release more realistic and exciting for gamers. "The decision to license the technology presented in Areté's Digital GameWare API was a very good one. Their design and implementation fit easily into our existing graphics engine and game framework saving us a great deal of programming time and effort while providing us a look and flexibility that exceeds our original design specs. We are very pleased with the results." - Kelly Asay, President Tesseraction Games, Inc. About Areté Entertainment Areté Entertainment, Inc, established in 1996, specializes in providing 3D computer graphics software for photo-realistic simulation and rendering of natural environments and pyrotechnic FX to the entertainment/visual FX industry. AEI’s simulation and rendering products are available across a broad range of graphics platforms including Maya, Softimage 3D|Extreme, LightWave, 3D Studio Max, Electric Image Universe and After Effects. AEI’s software products have won numerous industry awards and have been used to generate digital imagery for many feature films such as Pearl Harbor, Castaway, Titanic and Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone. Areté Entertainment, Inc. now offers Digital GameWare API, a middleware solution for adding real-time natural FX to game environments. About Tesseraction Games, Inc. Tesseraction Games is an Oregon corporation developing interactive entertainment software - video games - for the online gaming market. They have a 10-employee team that brings over fifty years' experience in video game and software development. The team includes veterans of "AAA" titles such as Tribes 2, Super Street Fighter 2, X-Men, Trophy Bass Fishing, Dungeons and Dragons, and Darkstalkers. For more information, please visit http://www.tesseractiongames.com Tesseraction Games Contact Info Blake Hutchins, Vice President |
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