Three Rings Releases Open Source Multi-player Game Toolkit

Three Rings Releases Open Source
Multi-player Game Toolkit and Launches Game Gardens Website

San Francisco, CA. — March 17, 2005 — Three
Rings, developer of massively multi-player online games, today announced the
release under an open source license of their Narya toolkit for creating online
multi-player games, the same toolkit used to create their flagship product, "Yohoho!
Puzzle Pirates." Concurrent with this release, they launched the Game Gardens
website at

http://www.gamegardens.com/
where developers can collaborate on game design and development, and host, free
of charge, games developed with the toolkit.

"The combination of the toolkit and the
hosting site eliminates many of the hurdles a budding game developer faces when
trying to turn an exciting new game idea into something people can actually play
online," says Three Rings CTO Michael Bayne. "We’re hoping to foster
experimentation in game design and provide hobbyists and indy developers with a
place to share ideas and evolve their designs with the help of an audience of
their peers."

The Narya toolkit is developed in Java ™
and works with the Windows, MacOS X and Linux operating systems and is available
for download from

http://www.gamegardens.com/

Three Rings is a San Francisco developer of
online games. Three Rings’ award winning flagship game, "Puzzle Pirates," is a
massively multi-player world of puzzle games. More information on Three Rings
can be found at
http://threerings.net/
and "Puzzle Pirates" can be found at

http://www.puzzlepirates.com/