UserJoy Selects BigWorld Technology Suite
Wednesday, 26 July 2006.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(TAIPEI, Taiwan) - UserJoy Technologies, the Taipei, Taiwan-based game studio behind the successful Chinese MMORPG The Legend of Three Kingdoms Online, The Twin Heroes Online, the newly-released Angel Love Online and the successful PC title Fantasia Sango, today announced that they have selected the BigWorld Technology Suite as their development platform for future games.
Tse Wen, Chu, General Manager at UserJoy is excited about the agreement. "It takes a lot of time, human resources, and risk to engage in developing a next-generation MMOG engine. After a detailed 3 month evaluation, we decided to use the most professional engine for online games; that is the BigWorld Technology Suite, which has been particularly developed for MMOG." Chu continued, "It saves us plenty of time, manpower, and cost to use the BigWorld Technology Suite, allowing us more time and people to concentrate on the essence of the game and developing innovative gameplay. Meanwhile, the integral support and training session provided by BigWorld allows us to get into production and start the project right away."
The BigWorld Technology Suite, which will be shown to the industry this week at the ChinaJoy expo in Shanghai, is an integrated set of tools, software and systems that provides all of the underlying technology and content development tools required to produce an MMOG. BigWorld has licensed their technology for use a number of highly anticipated games, making it the de facto standard MMOG development platform.
John DeMargheriti, CEO of BigWorld, was similarly excited, "It is an honour to be selected by UserJoy Technologies as their MMOG platform. UserJoy have consistently created highly-rated MMORPGs and we look forward to working with their very talented staff and seeing the exciting new games that they will produce on the BigWorld platform."
BigWorld Technology Suite provides operators and studios with a lower total cost of ownership through several innovations. The BigWorld Server architecture allows operators to run several games on a single server cluster, dramatically reducing the cost of running the game, while the enhanced Content Creation Pipeline reduces the cost of building and filling out the complex worlds required in next-generation games.
Michael Shih, President of UserJoy, also praised BigWorld's strategy of constant technology development, "MMOG technology evolves very fast and selecting BigWorld Technology Suite allows us to stay at the forefront of this very competitive market."
About the BigWorld Technology Suite
Comprised of the BigWorld Server Software, Content Creation Pipeline, 3D Client Engine Package, Live Management Tools & Instrumentation, BigWorld Technology Suite is the only complete MMOG solution, providing all of the difficult technology required to produce an engaging next-generation MMOG.
About BigWorld Pty Ltd
BigWorld Pty Ltd was formed in 2002 to commercialise years of intense R&D, which started in 1999 and continues to this day. BigWorld Pty Ltd is a privately held company based in Australia that licenses its BigWorld Technology Suite middleware platform to game studios and publishers around the world that are looking to produce successful next generation Massively Multiplayer Online Games.
BigWorld Website
http://www.bigworldtech.com
About UserJoy Technologies
UserJoy, a creative and customer-caring company, develops PC and online games with enthusiasm. There are almost 110 people in our R&D teams presently, working on projects not only for Taiwan and China, but also Japan and other international markets. Fantasia Sango (published by Falcom Inc.) was a great hit in Japan and The Legend of Three Kingdoms Online always keeps a good record in China, with more than 90,000 concurrent users and still growing.
UserJoy Website
http://www.uj.com.tw
For more information, please contact:
Maretta Buckley
Marketing Assistant
BigWorld Pty Ltd
Tel: +61-2-6162-5120m
Email: mbuckley@bigworldtech.com
Nicole Wang
Special Assistant to General Manager
UserJoy Technology Co.
Tel: +886-2-8226-9989
Email: wytnicole@uj.com.tw