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Artifact Entertainment has issued a press release at the official site about an addition to the the development and the game itself:
ARTIFACT ENTERTAINMENT ADDS GEODESIC TO HORIZONS DREAM TEAM
Geodesic to Provide Full-Lifecycle Support for Groundbreaking Development
Effort
CHICAGO - January 7, 2002 - Geodesic Systems, a leading provider of software
solutions that automatically improve the performance and reliability of
business-critical systems, today announced that Artifact Entertainment has
added Geodesic software as an important new member of its “dream team” of
computer game developers. Unlike the firm’s usual programmers who work in
cubicles, the Geodesic software actually will work inside the code that runs
their hotly anticipated new title Horizons to optimize server up time and
reliability for its uniquely passionate breed of customers.
“Up-time is absolutely critical to the online gaming world,” says James
Jones, president of Artifact Entertainment. “If a server goes down, it’s
literally the end of the world for our players. Geodesic software provides
ongoing protection against that.”
Artifact has licensed Geodesic’s GreatCircle® and High Availability Runtime
(HAR)™ solutions to support development of Horizons, a subscription-based,
interactive fantasy world, peopled by thousands of simultaneous, real-time
players. With Horizons, Artifact aims to bring the Massively Multi-Player
Online Gaming (MMOG) experience, already popular among the hardcore gaming
crowd, to the masses proving to be receptive to fantasy-based storylines,
movies and merchandise. To do that, Artifact has assembled a virtual
all-star team of game programming talent.
“Being selected for use in a multi-player gaming environment proves the
power of our software,” says Michael Spertus, Geodesic’s chief technology
officer. “For Horizons to be successful, Artifact’s servers simply cannot
crash. Great Circle and our High Availability Runtime will be Artifact’s
safety net, enabling the development team to focus on what they do best -
creating breakthrough game experiences.”
On the front end, Geodesic’s Great Circle already is helping Artifact
developers create cleaner code, providing error detection and code diagnosis
during development. At deployment, High Availability Runtime will be
embedded in the Horizons application, using its patented Run-time Diagnosis
and Remediation (RDR™) technology to find and fix potentially devastating
errors while the application is running. This will ensure a seamless
experience for Horizons players.
Only weeks after installing GreatCircle, the benefits are apparent.
“Since our team started using Geodesic software, we’re ahead of schedule,”
reports Jones. “Errors that used to take us days to locate, GreatCircle
finds in minutes. We expect Geodesic products to pay for themselves many
times over, with better server performance leading to lower hardware costs,
less co-location and reduced maintenance fees.” |
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Horzions with Geodesic
