Three Rings Design
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Three Rings Design, Inc. is an online game
developer
that was founded on March 30, 2001 by Daniel James
and Michael Bayne. The company is named after the Three Rings
of the Elves in Tolkien
mythology, and the names of the Three Rings show up in various places throughout Puzzle Pirates such as in the name of the developer flag, Narya. , the company is part of SEGA Holdings U.S.A. Inc.
, a subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings
. The company's first and primary product is Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
, an MMOG in which the player plays a pirate on one of multiple oceans.
The company's second product, released December 1, 2006, is a western-themed Tactical Multi Player game named Bang! Howdy
.
Online game
An online game is a game played over some form of computer network. This almost always means the Internet or equivalent technology, but games have always used whatever technology was current: modems before the Internet, and hard wired terminals before modems...
developer
Video game developer
A video game developer is a software developer that creates video games. A developer may specialize in a certain video game console, such as Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360, Sony's PlayStation 3, or may develop for a variety of systems, including personal computers.Most developers also...
that was founded on March 30, 2001 by Daniel James
Daniel James (game developer)
Daniel James , is a British-Canadian video game developer based in San Francisco. He is a co-founder and CEO of Three Rings Design, the company behind the MMOGs Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates, Bang! Howdy, Whirled and Spiral Knights....
and Michael Bayne. The company is named after the Three Rings
Three Rings
In Tolkien's legendarium, the Three Rings are magical artifacts forged by the Elves of Eregion. After the One Ring, they are the most powerful of the twenty Rings of Power....
of the Elves in Tolkien
J. R. R. Tolkien
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, CBE was an English writer, poet, philologist, and university professor, best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion.Tolkien was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Pembroke College,...
mythology, and the names of the Three Rings show up in various places throughout Puzzle Pirates such as in the name of the developer flag, Narya. , the company is part of SEGA Holdings U.S.A. Inc.
Sega
, usually styled as SEGA, is a multinational video game software developer and an arcade software and hardware development company headquartered in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan, with various offices around the world...
, a subsidiary of Sega Sammy Holdings
Sega Sammy Holdings
is a Japanese holding company formed from a merger of Sega and Sammy. They were both very involved in the arcade business , and Sega's main fame comes from their console systems.-Background:...
. The company's first and primary product is Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates
Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Three Rings Design. The player takes the role of a pirate, adventuring on the high seas and pillaging money from roaming enemy ships . The mechanics of Puzzle Pirates are driven by puzzles...
, an MMOG in which the player plays a pirate on one of multiple oceans.
The company's second product, released December 1, 2006, is a western-themed Tactical Multi Player game named Bang! Howdy
Bang! Howdy
Bang! Howdy is an online strategy game with a "Wild West" theme. It is made by Three Rings Design, the makers of Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates. Public beta testing ended on December 1, 2006 and the game is now "live". There is no cost to download the game and start playing...
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Games
- Yohoho! Puzzle PiratesYohoho! Puzzle PiratesYohoho! Puzzle Pirates is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Three Rings Design. The player takes the role of a pirate, adventuring on the high seas and pillaging money from roaming enemy ships . The mechanics of Puzzle Pirates are driven by puzzles...
- Bang! HowdyBang! HowdyBang! Howdy is an online strategy game with a "Wild West" theme. It is made by Three Rings Design, the makers of Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates. Public beta testing ended on December 1, 2006 and the game is now "live". There is no cost to download the game and start playing...
- WhirledWhirledWhirled is a website created by Three Rings Design. It was announced at the Game Developers Conference in 2007. It is currently in the Open Beta stage, with a scheduled release later in the year. The principle behind the game is that it will be a web-based social world for chat and games, similar...
(open beta as of March 25, 2008) - Corpse Craft: Incident at Weardd AcademyCorpse Craft: Incident at Weardd AcademyCorpse Craft: Incident at Weardd Academy is a Flash and web browser game developed by Three Rings Design and released on their game portal Whirled in 2008. A version for the iPad was released in December, 2010. -Gameplay:...
- Spiral KnightsSpiral KnightsSpiral Knights is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Three Rings Design and published by Sega. The free-to-play, Java-based game was released to advance testers on November 12, 2009 and to the general public on April 4, 2011...
- Doctor Who: Worlds in TimeDoctor Who: Worlds in TimeDoctor Who: Worlds in Time is an upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing game created for the Adobe Flash platform developed by Three Rings Design. It is based on the science fiction series Doctor Who and is due to be released late 2011...
(Late 2011)