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Wednesday January 22, 2003

GarageGames Launches Chain Reaction Demo

Mind bending puzzle game now available in demo form

GarageGames announced the demo version of Chain Reaction today, developed by Monster Studios. The demo features eight playable puzzles and access to 13 of the fully interactive parts. The full version of Chain Reaction, available at www.garagegames.com for $14.95, includes over 50 levels, fifty-nine parts and a full Level Builder with tools for users to create their own puzzles, which they can email to their friends.

"It’s a kick watching kids and adults alike play Chain Reaction for the first time. You can actually see the gears turning in their minds!" comments Chris Cole, lead designer and programmer of Chain Reaction. "There’s so much potential in these real-world-in-a-box games. This demo will allow players who enjoy mind calisthenics to easily sample Chain Reaction."

"Its great to see people who otherwise don't really enjoy 'puzzle games' become totally immersed in Chain Reaction," mentions Jay Moore Evangelist for GarageGames, "The ability to combine real world parts with lifelike physics and create animated solutions is such a rich discovery space. Chain Reaction is oxygen for the brain."

The 3.8 MB demo is available widely at download sites including FilePlanet, HomeLAN, Avault, File Shack, 3D Gamers, WorthPlaying, PC Gaming World. Chain Reaction is available currently on the Windows platform for $14.95 from www.garagegames.com.

The original creators of The Incredible Machine combine their talents once again to give us entirely new 3D game. The Monster Studios team includes, Jeff Tunnell co-designer with Chris Cole and Kevin Ryan original programmers on The Incredible Machine, the original art director, Brian Hahn,, Tim Clark and Joel Streudler on music, and Don Carson, former Senior Show Designer for Disney Imagineering on Mickey's Toon Town, who set the look for Chain Reaction.

About Chain Reaction www.garagegames.com/chainreaction

Chain Reaction is a 3D puzzle game where players create and complete innovative contraptions to solve each level. The objective of each contraption is to blast MC Monster onto his landing pad. Players choose from a toy box full of sixty-nine 3D parts such as a basketball, dynamite, wrecking ball, bucket, solar panel, trampoline, or electric motor. Connect them with structural parts like pipes, ropes, boxes, conveyor belts and platforms to create and solve mind-boggling cause and effect puzzles.

About GarageGames:

Located in Eugene, Oregon, GarageGames is a pioneering on-line game publisher. Their mission is to provide independent game makers with tools, technology, education, team-building... and, even the markets they need to sell great games. GarageGames is most famous for bringing the Torque Game Engine, the technology behind "Tribes 2," to Independent developers for only $100.