Stainless Steel Studios Enlists Scenario Designer, Gordon "The Old Campaigner" Farrell
New Strike Team Member to contribute to Empire Earth, the cutting edge real-time strategy game
January 10, 2001 - Stainless Steel Studios, the cutting edge strategy game developer, announced
today that Gordon "The Old Campaigner" Farrell has joined the Empire Earth
Scenario Design Strike Team. The Strike Team is a group of professional and
highly talented hardcore gamers who are helping to develop, design, and
create Empire Earth's single player campaigns. Gordon is currently
designing an epic campaign around one of the greatest empires of the ancient
world.
Gordon's best known work, "The Persian Wars," is a six-campaign, 27 scenario
masterpiece for Age of Empires that received rave reviews and top ratings
from several publications. The entire opus was even included on PC Gamer's
"Extended Play 2" compilation CD-ROM. Having established a reputation as
one of the best underground AoE scenario designers, Gordon set out to do the
same with AoE II: The Age of Kings. His first AoK campaign, "The Coming Of
The Unborn King: A Pendragon Saga," won contests held at the AOE2.com web
site and at King Arthur's Court, a British website. Computer Gaming World
cited "The Coming Of The Unborn King" in their July, 2000 issue as one of
the best add-on downloads available. His latest AoK campaign, "The Last
Viking Prince," has also garnered much notoriety, with the AoK Heaven web
site calling it: "Amazing... Gordon Farrell takes AoK to a whole new level."
Gordon is a playwright and screenwriter living in New York City. Since
1991, he has been on the faculty of New York University, where he teaches
the history of the theatre, classical and modern dramatic literature, as
well as playwriting and screenwriting. Gordon has also taught screenwriting
at Yale, where he has been appointed a Visiting Lecturer six times.
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.