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MindComet Breaks the Mold with Upper Deck’s New BreaKey™ Online Game Featuring Real-Time Play and Chat
In September 2003, in one of Upper Deck’s first applications of real-time interactive online gaming, the company launched the online component of BreaKey™ in Germany. The U.S. release of BreaKey is scheduled to launch within the upcoming months. Designed to drive sales of Upper Deck Entertainment products in retail stores, the online version of BreaKey, which was developed by MindComet Corporation, utilizes Macromedia’s Flash Communication Server and Flash Remoting to deliver cutting-edge, interactive game play with real-time chat capability, while engaged in play.
BreaKey Online, which is designed for ages nine to 12, consists of three core components: The game lobby, a battle game and a draft game. The Game Lobby is the central location where all players meet when not engaged in one of the BreaKey Games. Players can register their previously purchased BreaKey codes, which once entered will render the player a digital key. Also, inside the Game Lobby, players may view their key portfolio or enter chat rooms available for each game (Battle and Draft).
In the Battle game, which was built using Macromedia Flash, players choose to battle other players in an attempt to “break” their opponent’s keys and win control over those keys. Every time a player’s key wins a battle that player may win a predetermined prize, which is attached to the opponent’s key. For each win, a player gains “battle points,” which rank the player against all other BreaKey players. Prizes include BreaKey Battle Packs, Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Pin sets, game system backpacks, CD players, video games, watches and much, much more! For more information on BreaKey Online visit ww.gobreakey.com .
Draft is also a Flash game that can be played with either two players or eight players. The two-player game allows two players to challenge each other in a series of rounds using a pool of keys. The last player with unbroken keys wins and gets to keep any unbroken digital keys. Both players may win bonus keys or other prizes. The eight-player game pairs gamers at random for the first match, giving them the chance to break their opponents key. The game has three matches. Once players have progressed through three matches, they have the chance to view their performance against the other players. Whether you are playing the two-player or eight-player game, countless draft games may be taking place on the server allowing players to pair and battle simultaneously.
BreaKey is a licensed product of BreaKey, Netherlands.
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