SOURCE: fatfoogoo
September 10, 2008 09:00 ET
fatfoogoo to Offer Micropayment Software for Project Darkstar
Monetizing Software Services Now Available to Thousands of Game Developers in Sun Sponsored Community
VIENNA, AUSTRIA and SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - September 10, 2008) - fatfoogoo, the
leading provider of in-game commerce ecosystems, today announced that it
will enable integration of its microtransaction software with Project
Darkstar, an open source development environment created by Sun
Microsystems Laboratories, that caters to the online games, virtual worlds
and social networking industries. In a first step, fatfoogoo's monetizing
software services, such as virtual item trading, subscription management
and in-game economic control, are now available to thousands of developers
in the Project Darkstar Community.
fatfoogoo is the first company to offer commercial billing and transaction
software that is explicitly designed to work with Project Darkstar
technology. Project Darkstar simplifies the development of online games
that take full advantage of today's multi-core processors to deliver a new
generation of scalability. Pairing fatfoogoo with Project Darsktar opens
these games and virtual worlds to real money transactions, by enabling
developers to leverage fatfoogoo's secure and easy-to-use micropayments for
in-game transactions.
"The work that fatfoogoo is doing to extend the reach of Project Darkstar
exemplifies and underscores the value of open source communities," said
Karl Haberl, Director of the Project Darkstar research initiative at Sun
Microsystems. "fatfoogoo has openly shared their expertise with others,
enriching the Project Darkstar Community with their code contributions,
interactions with game developers, and now with commercial software
offerings. We are very pleased with the positive results of fatfoogoo's
Community participation, including the new opportunities they have
presented to developers of online games, virtual worlds, and social
networking applications."
"We are bringing microtransactions first to the publishers and developers
and, as a result, to the gaming community," said fatfoogoo CEO, Martin
Herdina. "Implementing micropayments into a game is a complex process that
needs close attention. We make it easy for game developers to integrate our
services into their games, so they can focus on their core competence. The
real beneficiaries, however, are the gamers who can now easily make small
and secure payments within the flow of the game."
About fatfoogoo
fatfoogoo is the leading in-game commerce ecosystem for monetizing online
games and virtual worlds. fatfoogoo's solutions allow both
publisher-to-player and player-to-player financial interaction, as well as
traditional user and subscription management. Publishers can choose white
label turnkey solutions or individually configured modules. Founded in 2006
by Daniel Petri and Martin Herdina, fatfoogoo is headquartered in Austria
and also has offices in the US and the UK. For more information, please
visit www.fatfoogoo.com.
About Sun Microsystems, Inc.
A singular vision -- "The Network Is The Computer" -- guides Sun in the
development of technologies that power the world's most important markets.
Sun's philosophy of sharing innovation and building communities is at the
forefront of the next wave of computing: the Participation Age. Sun can be
found in more than 100 countries and on the Web at http://sun.com.
About Project Darkstar
Project Darkstar is software infrastructure designed to simplify the
development and operation of massively scaleable online games, virtual
worlds and social networking applications. Created by Sun Microsystems
Laboratories as a research effort, it is today advanced as an open source
project through the Project Darkstar Community. Learn more at
http://www.projectdarkstar.com.