News - Tuesday 26th April 2005 - 8:26pm
Berlin, Germany
The leading independent European games developer Bytedefenders
announces its cooperation with middleware provider Exit
Games to power new production of mobile multiplayer games created by Bytedefenders.
As part of the agreement Exit Games will provide Bytedefenders with its Neutron
development toolkit and services enabling multiplayer gaming, matchmaking, community,
event billing and administrative functionalities.
Bytedefenders is internationally renowned for its successful games, such as Alphaman
or Egypt Quest I and II which are all distributed by leading operators worldwide.
The upcoming mobile multiplayer titles Catapults and Brick Challenge mark Bytedefenders’
step into the promising mobile multiplayer market where they will combine the
studio’s development expertise with innovative gaming formats.
Exit Games is an internationally established mobile multiplayer service provider.
Its core product Exit Games Neutron is the first multiplayer service based on
the OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) games service standard, co-developed by Exit Games.
International industry leaders, such as Vodafone, T-Mobile or Sony Ericsson have
already released Games based on Exit Games Neutron.
“We are very happy to work with a partner who has already gathered a large
experience with different gaming formats” comments Harald Behnke, CEO of
Exit Games. “The combination of Bytedefenders creativity and the advanced
multiplayer features of Exit Games Neutron 2.0 will provide the market with exciting
and innovative games.”
“Mobile multiplayer promises a new dimension of mobile gaming as users can
play everywhere at anytime. We are happy to enter this innovative market with
Exit Games and their Neutron solution which offers great multiplayer features
and considerably simplifies the development process”, adds Markus Glasmeier,
Managing Director of Bytedefenders.
About Exit Games
Exit Games (www.exit-games.com)
is a leading service provider for mobile entertainment software. Its core product
Exit Games Neutron connects mobile gamers all over the world. The open multiplayer
solution is based on the OMA Games Service industry standard, co-developed by
Exit Games. Clients and partners of Exit Games are world market leaders such as
Com2uS, Kuju Wireless, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange or Sony Ericsson. Venture capital
financed Exit Games has offices in Hamburg, Germany and San Jose, CA, USA.
About Bytedefenders
Bytedefenders (www.bytedefenders.com)
develops mobile games - game engines and expert tools for mobile game development.
The company was started in early 2002 by a group of mobile professionals who have
been creating mobile and Java™ services
for over six years. The company has created some of the most high-quality games
available in the world today. The company’s products include the popular
Egypt Quest series, and Alphaman™, a state-of-the-art 2D jump'n'run arcade
shooter. These games
are currently successfully deployed in partnership with a number of service providers
throughout the world. Bytedefenders’s games support a range of over 60 handsets
and multiple languages. Bytedefenders have already developed highly-flexible game
engines for mobile devices covering 2D, isometric and RTS & RPG games.