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.

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® Age of Empires ™, 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