About Simutronics

Company History
Simutronics Corp is a leader in the business of massively multiplayer games, focusing on persistent worlds using a subscription-based model. Incorporated in Virginia, Simutronics has offices in the St. Louis, Missouri and Washington, DC areas with more than 300 employees and contractors around the world. The company is privately held.

Simutronics is one of the pioneering companies in this dynamic field. Founded in 1987, the company has seen more than a million paying players through the Web, Microsoft's MSN Gaming Zone, Prodigy, CompuServe, America Online, and GEnie. Development partners over the years include most of the leaders in the online, media, and computer game industry including Universal Studios, Sony, Viacom, Time Warner, and Microprose.

We are proud of the many awards and accolades given to us which include the AOL Members Choice Award, Computer Gaming World's "Online Game of the Year", multiple Fast 50 awards in the Washington DC technology community, and the Blue Chip Technology Award. The company also made the 1999 Inc 500 list of fastest growing private companies.

play.net Technologies and Games
The Simutronics web site at www.play.net is developed entirely in-house using core technologies developed by the company that include billing, message boards, customer service and marketing tracking systems. Most of our IFE products are playable both via a world wide web browser and client-side programs.

Our current projects are Hero's Journey, a 3D massively multiplayer online roleplaying game (MMORPG), and HeroEngine, our Massively Multiplayer Online development solution. HeroEngine has been licensed by game companies seeking to make AAA titles and Hero's Journey is highly anticipated by the online gaming community.

The company's flagship products are its fantasy role-playing titles, which dominate the market for MUD-style games. Based on Simutronics' proprietary Interactive Fiction Engine (IFE), these games support a dynamic, ever-changing game world where each player has an impact on the world and where an incredibly talented staff of GameMasters add new features daily. The games are positioned in the high end of the market, where players are seeking an advanced, robust role-playing experience, and are designed for years of play value.

GemStone IV is enormously popular and attracts hundreds of thousands of players from around the globe. Its enthusiastic players form a huge online community with dozens of websites and player gatherings across the U.S. yearly, including the official SimuCon convention which takes place in the St. Louis area each year.

Other IFE-based products are DragonRealms, a spinoff from GemStone IV, Alliance of Heroes, a fantasy roleplaying game set in the Golden Age of mythology, and Modus Operandi, an interactive mystery game set in a modern Caribbean island. Each of these also has its own community of fan websites.

For fast-action fun, we offer CyberStrike 2, a futuristic robotic combat game featuring state of the art 3D graphics, animation and intense combat action.

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