Linux Game Company Opens Doors

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Linux Game Company Opens Doors

3 November 2007, New York - Sixth Floor Labs LLC, a Linux game
development company, has launched their business today. Founded by
Ethan Glasser-Camp and Carl Li, the company aims to improve Linux's
desktop feasibility through the creation of high-quality games. Games
are "sold" to the Internet community through the "ransom model" -- for
one large payment, the product is released under the GPL and freed
forever.

Sixth Floor Labs is offering up the next installment of their new
game, Project: Alexandria. Project: Alexandria is a top-down shooter
with an inertia-based physics model, like Asteroids. The first set of
levels is already available on their website.

The next set of levels, called "the healbeam campaign", consists of 8
levels and supporting assets -- music, sound effects, dialog, and art
-- that have been developed over 8 months. The one-time "ransom fee"
is $40,000, collected through the microPledges website. The company
estimates a month's work is all that is left to finish the campaign.

The Sixth Floor Labs is operating on the assumption that the open
source/free software community has a difficult time producing
high-quality games with the same facility that they have produced
other software of all times. The ransom model allows the community to
subsidize the production of games to offset the apparent difficulty
that exists today.

The ransom model offered by Sixth Floor Labs follows in the footsteps
of the Blender Foundation campaign, which raised 100,000 EUR in seven
weeks, and the Free Ryzom campaign, which raised pledges for 170,000
EUR in twenty-five days.

The collection progress can be seen at
http://micropledge.com/projects/project-alexandria-healbeam .


Abouth Sixth Floor Labs LLC:

Sixth Floor Labs is a New York-based company which has been operating
in "stealth startup mode" for a little over a year. It is the
brainchild of a Linux zealot that wants to give a push to the "world
domination" plot. You can visit their website at
http://www.sixthfloorlabs.com/ .

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Ethan Glasser-Camp
Executive Sous-Chef and Public Relations Officer
ethan@sixthfloorlabs.com

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