Stoked Rider ft. Tommy Brunner to enter open-beta phase

[Tom Schaffer]

Aloha,

Stoked Rider ft. Tommy Brunner to enter open-beta phase

On Thursday, 16th of Febuary 2006, Austrian based independent developer Bongfish Interactive Entertainment opens the mountain for beta testers taking a free-ride with their highly anticipated snowboard-title Stoked Rider ft. Tommy Brunner. A short teaser video and the registration form is available at www.stokedrider.com

The game already went to closed-beta in december and with help of the game's growing community a number of of user-suggested improvements already made it into the game. The development-team's flexibility in offering this kind of user-centric development process will allow for a smooth & refined gameplay experience.

About Stoked Rider:

Stoked Rider ft Tommy Brunner is the very first game focusing on the freeride aspect of snowboarding. It is scheduled for a mid-March 2006 release and will be available for Windows, Mac & Linux Systems.

Main features are:

* developed with the professional input of Quiksilver's freeriding legend Tommy Brunner

* massive anywhere-to-go-mountain world allowing to drop the rider anywhere-you-want

* presented in a fresh & unique rendering style

* never seen before physical game-play experience & dynamically responsive character animation made possible by AGEIA's Phys-X middleware.

* a filesize of just 30mb made realized by the use of procedural world-building technique and making this a perfect fit for electronic distribution

* innovative multiplayer approach letting players share their achieved height-meters in a collaborative enviroment

About Bongfish Interactive Entertainment:

Bongfish Interactive Entertainment located in Graz, Austria was founded in 1995 by Michael Putz & Klaus Hufnagl to shape their vision of digital entertainment. Since then a diverse range of multimedia CD-ROMs & websites have been produced, including the critically acclaimed UNREAL-engine powered presentation VIRTUAL GRAZ "Run for your future" for the EXPO 2000 World Exhibition. An ad-game produced for FLOW snowboard products initiated the Stoked Rider freeware 3D game, which has been downloaded 500,000 times and laid the foundation for the upcoming "Stoked Rider featuring Tommy Brunner."

If you need further information about the game, feel free to contact me.

Kind regards

Tom Schaffer
Public Relations
Bongfish Interactive Entertainment
Sciencepark Graz, Inffeldgasse 21a
8010 Graz, Austria, Europe
http://www.bongfish.com
http://www.stokedrider.com

[Tom Schaffer]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Thomas Schaffer
Bongfish Interactive Entertainment
Science Park Graz
Inffeldgasse 21a
8010 Graz, Austria
http://www.bongfish.com
tom@bongfish.com

This game is not intended for amped freestyle-kiddies.

Graz, Austria -- March 09, 2006

Stoked Rider featuring Tommy Brunner is about big-mountain snowboarding.
No parks and no pipes - leave the kid's stuff at home and bring your impact-protection gear.
Freeride untouched powder-fields in a you-against-the-mountain scenario and avoid falling at all costs.
Achieve as many height-meters as possible and share the result with your friends.

To be released for windows PC's in march 2006 ( followed by OS-X & Linux version later this year )

* Starring Quiksilver's Tommy Brunner as main character and advisor.
* 40 square-kilometers of anywhere-to-go mountains
* Full dynamic gameplay powered by AGEIA's Phys-X technology
* Sound effects produced by DJ Slime with support from austrian hardcore band Red Lights Flash
* Visual effects from Conspirancy, a critically acclaimed demo group from Hungary
* Innovative multiplayer mode allowing to share heightmeter challenges with your friends
* The game will be exclusive available for electronic distribution at http://www.stokedrider.com (with a filesize of just 50 megabytes)

This title is developed by an independent team of snowboarders & gamers with passion & soul - support independent games!

Find more info at http://www.stokedrider.com

A batch of new screenshots can be found here: http://www.stokedrider.com/Stoked_Rider_2006-03-09.zip
If your magazine doesn't host screenshots, you can use this adress: http://www.stokedrider.com/phpbb/vie...asc&highlight=
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About Stoked Rider:

Stoked Rider ft Tommy Brunner is the very first game focusing on the freeride aspect of snowboarding.
It is scheduled for a mid-March 2006 release and will be available for Windows, Mac & Linux Systems.
Historically the game appeared first in 1999 when the creators of the Stoked Rider games, Bongfish Interactive Entertainment,
are busy producing a new media marketing campaign for FLOW snowboards.
As part of the campaign they co-develop a small ad-game together with French freeware-legend, Alain Villaume.
Incredibly positive responses from gamers worldwide motivate Bongfish to continue the franchise, now under the guise of 'Stoked Rider'.
Between 2001 & 2002 a series of freeware updates are released; 500,000 downloads later the team feels confident enough to begin
development of Stoked Rider featuring Tommy Brunner, their first commercial project.
In 2003 an international team of snowboarders and game developers begin to handcraft the very first freeriding game.

About Bongfish Interactive Entertainment

Bongfish Interactive Entertainment located in Graz, Austria was founded in 1995 by Michael Putz & Klaus Hufnagl to shape their vision of digital entertainment. Since then a diverse range of multimedia CD-ROMs & websites have been produced, including the critically acclaimed UNREAL-engine powered presentation VIRTUAL GRAZ "Run for your future" for the EXPO 2000 World Exhibition. An ad-game produced for FLOW snowboard products initiated the Stoked Rider freeware 3D game, which has been downloaded 500,000 times and laid the foundation for the upcoming "Stoked Rider featuring Tommy Brunner."