Gendai Games

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GameSalad iPhone Publishing System And New Games Now Available

Austin, TX — September 23, 2009 — Gendai Games, developers of game creation tools for non-programmers, announces the immediate availability of the GameSalad iPhone Early Access Program which enables its members to create and publish games to the iPhone App Store. In addition, two new iPhone games made with the program have also been simultaneously released on the iPhone App Store, paving the way for user submitted games to be developed and published onto the world’s best selling mobile device.

In March 2009, Gendai Games opened free access to GameSalad Creator, the ground-breaking tool that gives would-be game designers access to complex algorithms necessary for implementing professional-level artificial intelligence and game play, without programming knowledge. GameSalad Creator enables users to share their games on the web and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

Today, Gendai Games is announcing the launch of the iPhone Early Access Program, a two-tiered membership system that provides access to GameSalad’s unique ability to export games to different platforms. The Indie and Pro Memberships give creators unlimited access to the system that exports their games for publishing to the iPhone App Store. In addition, the Pro Membership also provides access to advanced game development features as well as customized branding.

The first game released with the GameSalad iPhone engine, Flutterby™, has now been joined by two additional titles. In Spark of Life™, players take control of the Spark that protects and guides newborn planets, helping them build life and civilization as they traverse the hazards of space. Spark of Life utilizes GameSalad’s support of the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer to control the gameplay in a fun and challenging way. In Rock, Paper, Scissors: The Movie: The Game™, players take the role as the mysterious Nameless Master who must do what he vowed never to do again: wield the three ancient weapons of battle and seek vengeance against the Deadly Dragon Clan. This game features stylized hand-drawn art that demonstrate GameSalad’s support for rich graphical interfaces, sprites, and animations. Both games are now available on the iPhone App Store.

“Since we first hinted that our iPhone publishing system was nearing launch, the response has been phenomenal”, says Tan Tran, Director of Web Development and co-founder at Gendai Games. “In the few weeks since our initial announcement at the beginning of September, we’ve nearly quadrupled our membership. We currently have nearly 20,000 users who have not only joined GameSalad, but have also downloaded the tool.”

For additional information, contact Nestor Hernandez or visit http://gamesalad.com/press

For information regarding the iPhone Early Access Program, visit http://gamesalad.com/membership/earlyAccess

View the GameSalad trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9cHfhx9z9M

Spark of Life available on the iPhone App Store: http://gamesalad.com/sparkoflife

Rock, Paper, Scissors: The Movie: The Game available on the iPhone App Store: http://gamesalad.com/rps

About Gendai Games Inc.

Gendai Games is an innovator in modern game design. The company develops game creation technologies enabled by the social web. Gendai Games’ technologies provide powerful tools and processes ideal for the creation of sophisticated games and interactive media. The company pairs unique technology with social media to bring game creators and players together.

Contact: Nestor Hernandez
Gendai Games Inc.
pr@gendaigames.com

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Gendai Games presents business plan to more than 400 investors and industry experts at Rice Alliance I.T. and Web 2.0 Venture Forum

Gendai Games was selected from more than 70 companies by a panel of IT investors and successful entrepreneurs to present their business plan  at the 6th Annual Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship Venture Forum on December 11, 2008. Gendai Games was chosen based on the viability of the business, size of the potential market, unique competitive differentiation, strength of the management team, and attractiveness of the investment opportunity.

Business plans were presented before an audience of more than 400 attendees, including investors, venture capitalists, industry representatives, business leaders, advisors/mentors, service providers, and entrepreneurs.

Gendai Games first product, GameSalad, is game creation for the rest of us. GameSalad is an open platform for user-created games, providing a toolset that allows non-programmers to make sophisticated games and share them on multiple platforms.

“It was an honor to be one of only five Texas companies to present a full business plan at the Rice Alliance Technology Venture Forum. We made a conscious choice to base our company in Texas and work with local investment; we’re extremely delighted to be recognized as one of the top-ten most promising companies.”  –Gendai Games CEO Michael Agustin

The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship (Rice Alliance) is Rice University’s flagship initiative devoted to the support of entrepreneurship.  The mission of the Rice Alliance is to provide entrepreneurship education and to support the commercialization of technology innovations and the creation of new companies in the Texas and Houston region. Since inception in 1999, the Rice Alliance has assisted in the launch of over 225 new technology companies, which have raised more than $500 million in early stage funding.