GAMEproducer Secures Over 300 Top Developers in Beta Stage

askSam Database Engine Matches Developers with Publishers

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 3, 2000

Perry FL - GAMEproducer, the first business to business e-commerce website that matches interactive game developers with publishers and other firms that require their services, has signed up a large portion of the development community. While only in its beta stage, GAMEproducer already has over 300 game development companies listed, including many AAA developers who have capacity between projects.

Jerod Kirby, Managing Director of GAMEproducer says, "We are very pleased with the momentum we generated over the past two months. This is a clear indication of our market leadership and our ability to match the buyers - publishers - with the suppliers - development companies." Publishers who sign up at GAMEproducer have access to some of the best development talent in the games industry, in an anonymous, neutral marketplace.

Publishers can post RFPs on a non-exclusive basis on the GAMEproducer site and generate multiple bids for projects from leading developers, without the time and effort it would take to establish these connections through traditional channels. GAMEproducer provides developers with the opportunity to bid on projects they would not know of otherwise, increasing their project selection and allowing them to work with publishers with whom they previously had no contact.

Located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, GAMEproducer is a joint venture combining the game industry expertise of SR-71 Game Scouting and the technological talents of askSam Systems. SR-71 Game Scouting specializes in finding products for computer and video game publishers that support their product line and improve their profitability. SR-71's contact manager includes contacts at over 2,500 computer and video game publishers and 1,000 developers, as well as extensive information on their product lines and strengths. Based in Perry, Florida, askSam Systems develops the world's most popular text-database and publishing tools, including the free-form database askSam and SurfSaver. askSam databases provide a flexible and powerful full-text searchable database engine for many leading websites.

The interactive entertainment industry has grown exponentially in the last few years, reaching and exceeding revenues and successes previously attained in the motion picture industry. The Wall Street Journal reported that in 1999 in the US alone, sales of video game consoles and software reached $8.9 billion, surpassing US movie box office receipts of $7.3 billion. The $20 billion industry is rapidly expanding as new software and console developers churn out new product at an alarming rate. GAMEproducer is the first interactive marketplace to create a faster, easier, less expensive method for developers and publishers to exchange ideas and arrange partnerships. GAMEproducer will officially launch August 24.

For more information contact:

GAMEproducer.com

88 VilCom Center, Suite 135

Chapel Hill, NC 27514 USA

Telephone: (919) 918-7741

Fax: (919) 918-7834

Email: info@gameproducer.com

For more information about programming searchable Web sites:

Jim Hartman, Director

Sales and Business Development

askSam Systems

121 S Jefferson Street (PO Box 1428)

Perry FL 32348 USA

Phone: 850-584-6590 x 104

Fax:     850-584-7481

Email:  jwhartman@asksam.com

http://www.asksam.com

askSam is a registered trademark of askSam Systems.

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