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Community - Java Success Stories Red Storm Entertainment, Inc. and IBM are making significant breakthroughs in the performance of online, multiplayer Internet gaming applications using Java technology.

Company: Red Storm Entertainment, Inc.
Location: Morrisville, North Carolina
Industry: Entertainment
URL: http://www.redstorm.com

Red Storm will use IBM Java-based software technology, code named InVerse, in the development of future collaborative games for the Internet. Red Storm will help IBM evolve the InVerse technology for use in Web applications that require large-scale, real-time collaboration.

The first Red Storm game to use this technology, Tom Clancy's POLITIKA, which previewed at the Electronic Entertainment Expo in Atlanta June 19 -21, 1997 and is shipping this November. The InVerse technology is ideally suited to gaming applications as it can host a variety of interactive, multi-user Web sites -- from simple chat rooms to elaborate virtual communities.

What is POLITIKA?
"The game will play out as you, the user, decide it will. It's designed for free-form play, with all the creativity and skullduggery you can muster. All is fair, as we know, in love and war--and in politics (as any American can testify) the rules are looser still."

-- Tom Clancy

Tom Clancy's Politika is a new form of storytelling in which players create their own stories and outcomes. Set in post-Yeltsin Russia, Tom Clancy's Politika is the first online game tied closely to current international events. To play the game, up to eight factions vie to amass enough money, resources and power to win control of the country. Tom Clancy's Politika combines mutiplayer gaming with online conversation. Because spying has always been a component of political negotiation, the game's realism extends to include an espionage component that allows players to eavesdrop on each other.



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