Stainless Steel Studios Enlists Scenario Designer, Tim "Yogurt" Mitchell
New Strike Team member to contribute to Empire Earth, the next generation of
real-time strategy games
November 2, 2000
Stainless Steel Studios, developer of cutting edge strategy games, announced
today that Tim "Yogurt" Mitchell has joined the Empire Earth Scenario Design
Strike Team. The Strike Team is a group of professional and highly talented
hardcore gamers who are helping to develop, design, and create Empire
Earth's single player campaigns. Tim is currently working on an exciting
campaign that encompasses the 20th Century. He is also providing input on
the other campaigns and the game's powerful scenario editor
Tim first began creating scenarios for Age of Empires and has always pushed
the boundaries of what is possible in scenario design. His AoE scenarios
"The Wayward Prince" and "The Peaceful Seas" were intricate multiplayer
scenarios before multiplayer scenarios were common for RTS games. He has
also created tremendously popular scenarios for AoE II: The Age of Kings
His scenarios "Christmas Morning" and "Final Hour" were highly rated by the
Age of Kings Heaven Web Site and each has been downloaded by thousands of
enthusiastic gamers. Fellow Strike Team member Steve "Lobby" Ryan - who
describes Tim as "ahead of his time" - recommended him to Stainless Steel
Studios after seeing Christmas Morning and SSSI was quick to snap him up
Tim lives in British Columbia on scenic Vancouver Island, where he works for
the Provincial Government when he's not making amazing scenarios. He also
teaches courses about technology and culture over the web for a distance
education program out of the University of Victoria. Additionally, Tim is a
published author with a Master's Degree in screenwriting and he has won
Canada's Silver National Magazine Award for Fiction
Stainless Steel Studios, Inc., headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is
a game design and development organization. Founded in 1998 by Rick
Goodman, lead designer and creator of Microsoft's(r) Age of Empires (tm),
SSSI will produce advanced real-time strategy titles for the new millennium
Goodman was the winner of the 1998 Computer Game Developer Conference's
'Annual Achievement Award for Game Design and Development'. The company's
first title, Empire Earth, a sprawling historical epic covering 500,000
years of human history, is being published by Sierra Studios
