Fork Particle 1.0 at GDC
  Fork Particle announces Fork Particle 1.0

San Francisco, March 09, 2005 - Fork Particle, Inc. announced today that beta evaluation version of Fork Particle 1.0 is available at www.forkparticle.com for download. The cross platform middleware particle system pipeline technology has already been used by Electronic Arts - one of the global leaders in the gaming industry - to create the highest quality special effects to enhance the quality of their title Urbz: Sims in the City. 

The open architecture of Fork Runtime engine provides powerful features enabling game developers to instantaneously introduce into their games, in dreamlike fashion and ease, effects such as fountains, explosions or sophisticated responsive particle systems such as clouds and light beams. The particle systems engine design and architecture is efficient on console and PC platforms and scalability and access to engine components allows programmers to add custom functionality with ease. The runtime SDK is a cross platform solution which supports PlayStation2, Xbox, Gamecube, and PC.

The software invites special effects artists to take a comfortable yet drivers’ seat in the Fork Particle Studio: a particle system authoring studio designed with user-friendly controls and real-time feedback, speeding up content production but, more importantly, allowing users to imagine, see, sense and test for just the right effect.

Fork Live Tuner, a radical component connecting the studio technology with the system engine, empowers designers and artists to tweak particle systems in-game to arrive at the most incredible effects in the shortest possible time.

Demonstrations of Fork Particle version 1.0 Beta can be experienced at the Game Developers Conferene starting on March 9th in San Francisco.