Corporate Profile

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• Corporate Profile

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Vision

• Magnetar is pursuing a grand vision by laying
  cornerstones and hopefully acting as an early
  pioneer in promoting a disruptive technology
  model for the game Industry through
• Developing brilliant games leveraging our talents
  and experience
• Foster the worlds first high level standards for
  games
• Promote a global federated network for game
  players and authors
• Empower non-programmer teams with very high level
  game tools
• Create metaproduct line technology generating
  game product lines

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Mission

• Our mission is to realize the vision through an
  overall strategy of fostering cooperation with
  technology communities which have a history of
  strong standards development.
• Link Entertainment and Defence using MS
  standards
• Extend the Web3D Consortiums X3D standard into
  the game domain
• Develop the FederationX Network as MMOG and P2P
  infrastructure
• Create tools for a Collaborative Metaprogramming
  Framework (CMF)
• Design Flash and X3D portals which support
  streamed game content

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The Challenge
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Going for Gold

• Magnetar has identified several potential game
  projects as proof of concept products which
  leverage our talents, experience and connections.
  
• ExForce - Mega Man title based on very popular
  Capcom characters
• A World at War based on a famous WW II strategic
  board game
• Game Nebula a global network for abstract board
  games and puzzles

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Oblique Assault on NIH

• Our standards strategy recognizes the formidable
  barrier that the Not Invented Here syndrome
  presents to such initiatives in the game
  Industry. Our solution is to maneuver around the
  problem by aligning proposed game standards with
  those already adopted by communities such as
  Modeling and Simulation (MS) that have no such
  impediment. Our strategy is to
• Adopt Extensible 3D (X3D) sponsored by the Web3D
  consortium
• Adopt the DOD sponsored High Level Architecture
  (HLA) for MS
• Develop an open architecture for game component
  developers
• Participate in the Department of Defense game
  community

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Leveling the Playing Field

• The gap between Independent Game Developers and
  studios has continued to widen with escalating
  game budgets and increasing competitive
  requirements for advanced software. Our strategy
  is to introduce two ground breaking game portal
  technologies and high level authoring tools.
• Promote our Macromedia Flash Federation for 2D
  multiplayer games
• Launch our companion Flux Federation for 3D
  multiplayer games
• Create a collaborative real-time authoring system
  Forge for games
• Seed a COTS (Component off the Shelf) technology
  for games
• Foster growth of an open FederationX Network
  for game content

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Corporate History

• Magnetar has been working towards FederationX for
  seven years and has created a credible body of
  software for the 2,000,000 CDN invested to date
  by keeping overheads extremely low and by
  retaining its key employees who are a very
  valuable resource.
• Company founded as Ibis Research in September
  1997
• FederationX Lobby system version 1.0 2000
• MORPH and MAGNETAR September 2002
• Chronos September 2003
• Flash Federation ongoing

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Corporate Structure

• Magnetar is a private company incorporated in the
  Province of British Columbia Canada
• Board of Directors ( Duncan Suttles, Reggie Chen,
  Dobrila Suttles)
• Advisory Board (Tony Parisi)
• Employees 4 full time developers with 27 years
  experience in Magnetar
• Legal - Fraser and Company Vancouver

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The Team

• Magnetar has a very experienced and exceptionally
  talented team of four developers who have worked
  together full time for seven years.
• Duncan Suttles
• Reggie Chen
• Ryan Levere
• Miranda Paugh
• Tony Parisi
• Dobrila Suttles
• Fred Lake

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Duncan Suttles

• President and Chief Technology Officer
• OMEN II author
• The worlds first PC stock market quotation
  system
• International Chess Grand Master
• The chess master who defines the Canadian Style
  
• Great visionary software architect
• Twenty two years experience in software projects

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Reggie Chen

• Director
• Lead Programmer, Project Coordinator
• More than 15 years experience in developing
  professional software systems
• Communications, databases, military simulations
• Extensive hands-on experience in creating
  distributive applications
• Diverse knowledge in both practice and design

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Ryan Levere

• Software Engineer
• Magnetars Lead Coder
• Accomplished programmer in 2D and 3D video games
• The power horse of Magnetars development team
• Versatile programming skills ranging from XML to
  3D
• Six years experience
• Digipen graduate

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Miranda Paugh

• Lead Design
• Mega Man Home Page author
• The first and most renowned Mega Man fan site
• Multi-talented professional
• Art design
• Web page authoring
• UI Programming
• Creative writing
• Eight years experience
• Digipen graduate

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Dobrila Suttles

• Director
• Public/Investor relations, Director.
• Successfully financing three public companies

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Tony Parisi

• Advisory Board of Directors Member
• Technology Pioneer in Internet New Media
• Co-inventor of VRML (Virtual Reality Markup
  Language)
• Founding member of Web3D consortium
• Co-chair and major contributor of X3D ISO spec.
• Author of Flux X3D browser
• Accomplished entrepreneur in developing worldwide
  technology standards

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Fred Lake

• Several years of experience in CFO/COO
• A veteran in business development and venture
  funding in SMEs
• Involved for three years in the operations of a
  start-up organization with an annual operating
  budget of 4M.

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Strategic Partners

• Media Machines
• Multiplayer Media Inc.

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• Media Machines is a technology partner
  responsible for the 3D visualization engine
  component.
• 3D expertise by the co-inventor of Virtual
  Reality Markup Language (VRML)
• Flux multimedia engine which implements the X3D
  Web3D standards.
• Mirage high level visualization extensions for
  Flux.
• Game X3D standards development.

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Multiplayer Media Inc.

• Introduce Magnetar to game publishers and others
  who may license Magnetars products, technologies
  and services.

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Goals

• Our major goals implement the mission through
• Create ExForce Role Playing Strategy
  programmable game System
• Author a Mega Man EX game as a proof of concept
  Product
• Build the Forge real-time collaborative
  authoring toolset
• Develop the Flash Federation portal for
  multiplayer Flash games
• Develop the Flux Federation portal for
  multiplayer X3D games
• Promote the FederationX Network as a open game
  content Grid
• Pioneer game X3D standards in collaboration with
  Web3D

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• ExForce is our role-playing strategy (RPS) system
  targeted at the very high end of the game market.
  Features include
• Advanced game play using linked strategic and
  tactical scenarios
• Federated game logic and visualization engines
• Real-time, turn-based, and hybrid game execution
  models
• Peer to Peer (P2P) and Massive Multiplayer Online
  Game (MMOG) modes
• Visualization engines based on Flash and/or X3D
  engines
• Creating the www.exforce.net FederationX federate
  to support ExForce

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• Mega Man EX is a multi-player role-playing
  strategy (RPS) game using the ExForce engine.
• Introducing Mega Man to a new genre appealing to
  an older demographic who grew up with Mega Man
• Featuring well-known Mega Man characters and
  environments
• Play as a favorite Robot Master!
• Game design by a renowned Mega Man expert and
  approved by the original Mega Man creator at
  Capcom
• Fansite www.mmhp.net

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Forge

• Our real-time collaborative very high level
  product development environment. The design goals
  of Forge include
• Extensible system using plug-in domain-specific
  editing modules
• Federated repository integration through Realm
  concept
• Integrated testing and preview of products in
  full emulation mode
• Lightweight project management for distributed
  teams
• Real-time collaborative authoring with
  video-conferencing options
• Very high level metaprogramming targeting
  non-programmers

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• Envisioned as the worlds premier standards-based
  portal for 2D Flash games. Features of Flash
  Federation include
• Mirage Flash 2D engine based on X3D design
  patterns
• Authoring of Flash games using the very high
  level Forge tool
• Flash systems may use the Swarm game logic
  engine
• Multiplayer games using our HLA P2P engine
  Chronos
• Promotion through the www.flashfederation.com web
  site
• Realm integration including lobby and
  repository services

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• Envisioned as the worlds premier
  standards-based portal for 3D games. Features of
  Flux Federation include
• Flux X3D engine from Media Machines
  (www.mediamachines.com)
• Authoring of Flux games using the very high level
  Forge tool
• Flux systems may use the Swarm game logic
  engine
• Multiplayer games using our HLA P2P engine
  Chronos
• Promotion through the www.fluxfederation.com web
  site
• Realm integration including lobby and
  repository services

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Game X3D Standards Initiative

• The worlds first high level standards for game
  design. This evolutionary approach leverages two
  major international standards in the related
  fields of 3D multimedia and modeling and
  simulation. Realizing this goal includes
• Creating the Game XML web site (www.gamexml.org)
  for new standards
• Promotion in cooperation with Web3D consortium
  (www.web3d.org)
• Extending the Web3D X3D standard by adding an HLA
  component
• Integration with the HLA Basic Object Model (BOM)
  standard
• Integration with IDGA AI standards group for
  games initiative

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Products

• FederationX
• Tryst
• Chronos
• Model Editor

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• The FederationX network is an open global
  federated network providing lobby and repository
  services for authoring and deploying multiplayer
  games and distributed simulations. Current and
  planned features include
• Open federation empowering thousands of
  Federate content providers
• HLA runtime infrastructure using Chronos engine
  for P2P and MMOG
• Guild federate server for lobby and repository
  services
• Nexus authorization and identity services
• Realm proxy engine for client-side lobby and
  repository services
• Tryst lobby client for FederationX systems and
  all DirectPlay games

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• Tryst is the rendezvous tool for the game
  community, providing both lobby and repository
  interfaces to the FederationX Network. Tryst
  will support game players, spectators, and
  development teams through
• Building a global open federated content and
  service provider network
• Setting the bar for super scalable secure lobby
  and repository services
• Enabling a wide variety of user platforms in a
  heterogeneous environment
• Providing extended community services such as
  ratings and tournaments
• Empowering creation of user-customized rich media
  lobby interfaces
• Facilitating an open federated digital game asset
  repository
• Supporting real-time editing tools for
  collaborative game development
• Introducing standards for game lobby and
  repository service

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• Chronos is an advanced networking engine which
  implements the U.S. Department of Defense's HLA
  RTI interface using DirectPlay.
• Built as a .NET component
• Implements MAGNETAR (Metaprogrammable AGent
  NETwork ARchitecture)
• Supports development in C, C, Flash,
  JavaScript, and others

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• FederationX Model Editor is an HLA-compliant
  editor for creating MORPH and OMT models. It
  supports the following standards
• HLA (High Level Architecture) OMT (Object Model
  Template) DIF (Data Interchange Format)
• MORPH (Metaprogrammable ORganized Prototype
  Hierarchy)
• BOM (Basic Object Model)