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Electrotank is the #1 developer of Flash MMO games and virtual worlds.
For Immediate Release
Since the release of the company’s award winning multi-player flash game “Mini-Golf” in 2001, Electrotank has been the technical and creative leader of multi-user flash applications. Leading brands such as Comedy Central, Disney, Hallmark, Kraft Foods, Mattel, MTV and VH1 rely on Electrotank’s unmatched capabilities to design, build and support their online games and virtual worlds. The company has built more multi-player Flash games than any other company in the world.
The Directors of Electrotank, Jobe Makar, Robert Firebaugh and Mike Grundvig have authored over a dozen books on the technical and creative aspects of Flash online game development for publishers including Macromedia/Adobe and Peachpit. A team of Electrotank engineers designed and built the technical platform for both Shining Stars and Webkinz, two of the most financially successful online properties in the world. By using Electrotank’s engineering expertise and technology, Ganz Media is currently able to serve 7.3 million unique online users per month, and up to 200,000 concurrent users on the incredibly popular Webkinz World.
Whether building a virtual world around a traditional brand, or starting from scratch with a new property, Electrotank is the most valuable Flash MMO game and virtual world development partner a company can find. Electrotank will help you design a virtual world that will engage your audience in the context of your brand, perform optimally for the best possible user experience and scale flawlessly. Critical to the success of your endeavor, Electrotank brings both seven years of real-world multi-player development experience and a leading edge technology toolkit to your effort. This will allow your company to minimize time to market and significantly reduce both short and long term technical and financial project risks.
ELECTROTANK PROVIDES OUTSTANDING SERVICE AND VALUE
Consulting: Concept Development, Leadership Consulting, Team Training
- What works, what doesn’t, what’s new, what’s not? (We know the space.)
- What should leaders be aware of? Who’s the in-house expert?
- Your development effort is only as strong as your weakest link.
Game Design, Development and Infrastructure
- Electrotank has designed 200+ games, including some of the web’s most popular.
- We know what it takes to maintain brand quality while optimizing player experience in the creation of graphics and animation.
- We literally wrote the book on Flash game graphics and client coding/scripting for games.
- Our product ElectroServer, and the modular components we have built around it allow for development that is both rapid and technically sound.
- Unmatched server side multi-user application code and data-design expertise.
- Having managed the implementation and maintenance of applications hosting millions of players, we understand what infrastructure is required to maintain flawless performance at scale.
Contact: Robert Firebaugh -  - 650.200.6263
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Electrotank Liberates Gaming Communities with Unparalleled Multiplayer Server Release
For Immediate Release
Growing large gaming or social networking communities requires reliably connecting the largest number of users via ElectroServer™ 4.
ELM CITY, N.C. - Jan. 11, 2008 --- Supporting hundreds of thousands of simultaneous users for real-time interaction is accomplished only by acquiring the most recent release of North Carolina-based Electrotank's ElectroServer 4 (ES4) technology, recognized in the massive multiplayer online entertainment universe as the backbone of many successful environments including Webkinz® World and game communities created for VH1®, Comedy Central®, and Mattel®. ElectroServer 4 is ideal for companies building virtual worlds or MMOGs. For innovative independent game development studio Electrotank, massive takes on a whole new meaning as the numbers are cranked up - ES4 has been proven to handle 200,000 concurrent users. Whether the need is to support 500 users or is scaled up to 200,000, the server provides a way for users to interact real-time for chatting, gaming, and even audio/video chats. The audio/video tool set enables traditional live streaming as well as recording an event in real-time and storing it for future playback. Webcams and microphones can be used for real-time audio/video interaction between users.
"The growth of gaming across virtually all demographic sectors including kids, teens, working executives - both male and female, and even seniors - is driving immense technological innovation," said Electrotank Co-Founder Robert Firebaugh. "Performance is a key element - if there are reliability or support issues with one interactive experience, MMOGers move on to another - a great loss and at great cost to companies."
According to Electrotank CTO Mike Grundvig, the ElectroServer product functions seamlessly as a socket-server, originating from high-quality open source frameworks either in standalone mode or distributed across multiple server installations. ElectroServer 4 gives developers more features while shaving weeks or months off of development time. ES4's tiered licensing pinpoints bottom-line expenditure with greater value on all levels.
"Getting into gaming is a straightforward play," said Firebaugh. "One myth is that breaking into this industry successfully can only be accomplished with significant investment in technology resources - ES4 is aimed at debunking that belief."
While ElectroServer 4 Professional is designed for single servers on the lower end - those which carry between 500 and 5000 concurrent players and up to 750 audio and video connections, ElectroServer 4 Enterprise version operates either in standalone or distributed mode, with scalable support for 10,000 to 200,000 concurrent players. Pricepoints start at $700 for the Professional edition and at $4400 for the Enterprise version.
Traditional game or MMOG developers understand that by finding a gaming server solution that they can trust for performance and scalability allows them to focus on what’s important – creating great experience. "If ES4 helps companies reach their target market affordably and reliably – meeting and surpassing all scaling and performance requirements - companies can connect with gamers to achieve success," added Firebaugh.
To find out more about implementing Electrotank's ElectroServer 4 into a specific environment, at any stage of development, or to gain insight into how ElectroServer can trigger a greater following, contact Robert Firebaugh at 650-200-6263 or e-mail . View samples online at www.electro-server.com.
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MMO Flash Games with Real-time A/V Streaming Become Feasible!
For Immediate Release
Electrotank® Offers Public Demonstration of Full Audio & Video Streaming Support on Economical and Scalable Next Generation Flash® Multiplayer Game Development Platform ElectroServer™ 4 at Austin GDC.
Austin Game Developers Conference, Austin, TX - September 6, 2007 - Electrotank announced that it will publicly demonstrate audio and video streaming integration in the newest version of its Flash multiplayer development platform at the Austin Game Developers Conference. The company’s latest Flash multiplayer development platform, ElectroServer 4 (ES4) is slated for release later this month. ES4 is the first Flash Media Server alternative to offer game developers the ability to economically build scalable MMO Flash games that incorporate real-time Flash video and audio streaming.
”Any developer will tell you how important audio is to the user experience,” remarked Jobe Makar, president of Electrotank and a game developer himself. “Put real-time audio and video into a Flash multiplayer online game and you have the potential to create remarkably unique play experiences.”
In addition to streaming live events (one-to-many), this A/V capability allows Flash gamers to use their webcams and microphones to participate in private or public group video chats within the Flash game application. Any server-bound real-time video or audio can also be recorded to a file for future playback. Historically, real-time streaming video has been absent and audio required the use of third party software in online games due to the technical complexities and costs involved in integration. With Electroserver 4, these limitations are greatly reduced.
Disney® acquisition target wannabes take note: ElectroServer is the underlying technology supporting the hugely successful (3.8 million active users) MMO world of Webkinz®. Electrotank’s previous 2003 release, ElectroServer 3, was the first real-time Flash multiplayer platform to offer developers a “zone and room” object-oriented architecture. Because it was both easily extensible and scalable, it became a popular development tool to implement high traffic, real-time MMO games for companies like Comedy Central®, Mattel®, Miniclip®, and Nickelodeon®.
ElectroServer 4 offers developers a hefty toolkit of extension options and a rich API to extend and modify the capabilities of the server. “Frankly, when we began to develop this platform, we had no idea we would be able to pull this level of functionality off in way that would be so economical and efficient for developers,” said Mike Grundvig, who architected the server side components of the platform. Grundvig will be speaking to the Austin Game Developers Conference about Online Games Technology and Services in Hall 6B at 11am on Thursday, September 6.
See it at GDC
Electrotank offers ongoing live demonstrations of its ElectroServer platform at Booth 500 of the Austin GDC Expo on Thursday and Friday September 6-7th. Jobe Makar and Michael Grundvig, the creators, are available to speak with Press.
About Electrotank
Electrotank, founded in 2001 by Jobe Makar, Michael Grundvig and Robert Firebaugh, is an award-winning development firm specializing in multiplayer Flash game development. Together, the principals have authored over ten Flash development books. In addition to development services, they independently license the ElectroServer platform as an alternative to Flash Media Server. ElectroServer 4 offers multiplayer application developers an unprecedented combination of performance, scalability, functionality, features, and value.
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Headline: Electrotank Demonstrates New MMO Game Development Platform with Streaming A/V at Austin GDC
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