From: "Jeff Vogel" <spidweb@spiderwebsoftware.com>
To: <lwn@lwn.net>
Subject: Exile III: Ruined World  A Fantasy Role-Playing Game for Linux
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 15:35:09 -0700

For Release: 4/25/00
Contact: Jeff Vogel
(206) 789-4438

Exile III: Ruined World
A Fantasy Role-Playing Game for Linux

 Spiderweb Software and Boutell.com proudly present Exile III: Ruined World!
Exile III: Ruined World is an epic fantasy role-playing game for Linux,
featuring a fascinating plot, detailed and enormous world, and an elegant
game system and interface.

 The surface world is ruled by the Empire, and it has been as long as anyone
can remember. As long as you followed the rules and kept quiet, it was a
good life. But stand out, not fit in, say the wrong thing, and the
punishment was swift, sure, and horrible. You were cast into Exile, a huge
series of caverns far below the surface of the earth, there to live out the
rest of your days in misery.

 Now, at last, an escape route from your underground prison has been found.
You are the brave soul chosen to lead the first expedition to the surface.
You hope to find a way for your people to return to the light of the sun.
Instead, you find a ravaged world, rapidly being devoured by mysterious
plagues of monsters. You will have to act quickly. If not, the underworld
will be the only place left where humans can live.

What makes Exile III exceptional? Well, it features ...

* Involving, intricate plot, with 200000 words of story!
* An enormous, changing world. Do nothing, and things evolve around you.
Refugees move from town to town. Villages will be destroyed. Characters will
die. Monsters will gain territory.
* Detailed, open ended system. Don't want to go on adventures? Do odd jobs.
Save up and buy a house. Go on one of dozens of side missions. Explore an
enormous outdoors with well over a hundred dungeons and towns. Just go
through people's houses and rummage through their stuff!
* Pleasing, professionally done graphics and sound.
* Carefully designed interface, with comprehensive online help, adventure
journals, and design with an eye towards enabling you to do everything with
the minimum amount of fuss.

 Although Exile III is a sequel to the award-winning shareware games Exile I
and II, it is designed to be completely playable as a stand-alone game, with
absolutely no experience with previous Exile games required.

Exile 3 for Linux requires glibc 2.1 or later to run. This translates to
having Redhat Linux 6.0 or later, or a similiar version of Linux. Exile 3
for Linux will be released Spring, 2000. You can find more information at
http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/exile3/linuxexile3.html.

Contact: Spiderweb Software, PO Box 85659, Seattle WA 98145,
Spidweb@spiderwebsoftware.com.
WWW: http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com
Port By: http://www.boutell.com


- Jeff Vogel
Spiderweb Software, Inc.
http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com