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September 18, 2000

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Stainless Steel Studios Adds Scenario Designer, Christopher "Eggman"

Theriault

New scenario designer to contribute to Empire Earth, the next generation of

real-time strategy games.

September 18, 2000

Stainless Steel Studios, the cutting edge strategy game developer, today

announced the addition of a new designer to the Empire Earth development

team. Christopher "Eggman" Theriault has joined Stainless Steel Studios as

a Scenario Designer. Chris' responsibilities will include editing and

coordinating the production of the single player campaigns for Empire Earth,

and creating the design specification for Empire Earth's robust scenario

editor.

Chris started designing game scenarios for fun during his career in the US

Army and in two years he created more than 30 Age of Empires scenarios.

Well known in the Age of Empires community for his intricate story lines and

exceptional ability to integrate the story with game play, Chris actively

participated in online contests and tournaments. He tied for third place in

a Roman-themed scenario designing contest and tied for first place in a

contest to create a Mongolian campaign, both sponsored by the "Age of

Empires Heaven" Web site. For his Mongolian campaign, one judge, who worked

on AoE, awarded Chris a perfect score.

About his decision to join SSSI, Chris said, "I wanted to come here because

SSSI is working on a game that is the next step beyond the one that first

lured me into the world of scenario designing [AoE]. It was an opportunity

I couldn't pass up."

Talk directly to Chris and the other designers at the Stainless Steel

Studios Forum

(http://www.stainlesssteelstudios.com/cgi-bin/UltraBoard/UltraBoard.pl).

Stainless Steel Studios, Inc., headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is

a game design and development organization. Founded in 1998 by Rick

Goodman, lead designer and creator of Microsoft's(r) Age of Empires (tm),

SSSI will produce advanced real-time strategy titles for the new millennium.

Goodman was the winner of the 1998 Computer Game Developer Conference's

'Annual Achievement Award for Game Design and Development'. The company's

first title, Empire Earth, a sprawling historical epic covering 500,000

years of human history, is being published by Sierra Studios