El Segundo, CA - April 26, 2001 - R.E.D. announced it has signed a representation agreement with independent game studio 4D Rulers. R.E.D. will seek a publisher for 4D Rulers' innovative new first person shooter Gore, which was described in Computer Games Online as "the thinking person's FPS."

More than 500,000 people have downloaded the online multiplayer demo (with) that was released on March 10 if this year. The demo has three small levels and three characters. 4D Rulers plans to have a finished game by the end of the year.

"4D Rulers is very excited to work with R.E.D. on finding a publisher for Gore," said Joel Huenink, president and creative director of 4D Rulers. "We were quite struck by their enthusiasm and optimistic view of our potential to obtain a publishing deal."

"We are proud to represent 4D Rulers," said R.E.D.'s Paul Cunningham. "They've put their heart, soul and financial resources into creating Gore, and introduced innovative features that will take the FPS genre up to the next level."

The futuristic Gore is powered by the AMP engine, which 4D Rulers developed in partnership with Texas-based Slam Software. The AMP Game Design System includes a rendering engine, the Wire Multiplayer Net Engine, editing package, and game code support library, all designed for use under Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, or Windows 2000.

Click here to read a recent Computer Games Online article about Gore.

Nebraska-based 4D Rulers was founded in 1997 by brothers Joel, Rick and Nick Huenink, and has since tripled in size to a team of developers obsessed with the game industry, who eat and sleep games, generating an atmosphere of enthusiasm to create a game made by gamers for gamers.

R.E.D. is the interactive game industry's leading representation company and assists talented game development studios in securing development agreements with publishing companies.

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