“Hansoft not only helps us coordinate our publishing work but also gives us real-time tracking of progress in our game development projects. This makes it easier to collaborate with development studios around the globe,” says Chester Aldridge, Chairman/CEO of Red Mile Entertainment.

“We are very excited about providing Red Mile Entertainment with a tool that shrinks the world. The unique performance and functionality of Hansoft brings publishers, studios and outsourcing partners closer and we believe this is key to successful and cost-effective international game development,” says Hansoft Managing Director Patric Palm.

About Red Mile Entertainment

Red Mile Entertainment, Inc. is a worldwide developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software. Headquartered in Sausalito, California, the company creates, incubates and licenses premier intellectual properties and develops products for console video game systems, personal computers and other interactive entertainment platforms. www.redmileentertainment.com

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“Eurocom has established a strong track record for time-critical projects, and is actively recruiting for a number of exciting projects on next and current generation platforms. Hansoft’s fast and easy state-of-the-art functionality strengthens our project management capabilities and enhances our studio efficiency,” says Hugh Binns, Director, Eurocom.

“Eurocom has one of the most solid track records in the market and a history of focusing on good project management practices,” says Hansoft Managing Director Patric Palm.

“We are proud to provide Eurocom with a tool that will help them put stress away from management and empower their teams to deliver even faster on desired quality and budget,” says Patric Palm.

Hansoft recently also announced its 3.2 release with project history analysis and enhanced functionality for involving publishers and outsourcing partners in the project.

“We believe tighter collaboration will be increasingly important but also more difficult. Hansofts integrated solution will leverage the growing teams to their full potential,” says Patric Palm.

About Eurocom Entertainment Software

Eurocom was founded in October 1988 by current owners Mat Sneap, Tim Rogers, Neil Baldwin, Ian Sneap and Hugh Binns. Eurocom has steadily expanded to cover all the major consoles and handhelds, and has developed over 70 titles in that time. Eurocom’s development team of 235 talented staff is based in Derby, UK. Previous Eurocom developments have included many of the biggest selling titles in the industry including games based on James Bond, Harry Potter, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Batman, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, and Tarzan. Eurocom’s last published game is Ice Age 2 : Meltdown, released in March 2006 by Vivendi for PS2, Gamecube, Xbox and PC. Eurocom’s most recent announced project is the development of next-generation games based on the Pirates of the Caribbean for Buena Vista Games, due for release in 2007.

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- Hansoft has always been a fast and easy collaboration tool for not only project managers but all developers. Now teams using agile methodology will also be able to benefit from the usability, says Hansoft Managing Director Patric Palm.

Hansoft is used for managing tasks and collaboration on a day by day basis by programmers, artists, project mangers and producers. Hansoft is also used by executives for portfolio management and by clients and outsourcing partners to be closely involved in the production without having access to its all parts.

- We believe the Hansoft level of usability is key in mid or large size agile productions where the amount of information is massive and distributed on several teams. You can’t really be agile if the used tool isn’t fast and easy, says Patric Palm.

With the new agile release projects using agile methodology with backlogs, iterations, burndowns etc can exist parallel with task scheduling projects. Resource usage and portfolio management can then be run in one integrated solution. Agile can also be used for a subproject within a production project. For example the milestone plan and parts of the production which naturally use task scheduling can be managed parallel to parts of the project that uses agile methodology.

- With Hansoft you don’t need to have separate tools and a “religious war” between methodologies. You can now in one tool use agile and task scheduling projects in parallel. You can even have agile cells of sub teams within a development project. With Hansoft you don’t need to choose one methodology, now you can have both, says Patric Palm.

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- The new feature Ghost Resource mode enables project managers to create ghost resources and assign them tasks without paying for more users. When the planned project then goes live the ghosts can easily be converted to real resource accounts and involved in the project work. Since our 2-user trial license has an unlimited period, the ghosts make Hansoft not only a more powerful, but also a free of charge alternative to standard project planning applications. Migrating old plans into Hansoft is also done with a click, says Hansoft Managing Director Patric Palm.

In addition to analysing resource usage, task activity can now also be analysed on a portfolio level.

- Say that you want to know what all programmers are doing in all projects the upcoming two weeks and what tasks are overdue. With this new Find all functionality coordination between projects is made easier, says Patric Palm.

The time reporting module (Euro 3.00 extra per user per month) is now upgraded with dynamic fields to support the specific needs of different organisations.

- If wanted, you can now use a digital version of the traditional time clock, says Patric Palm.

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- Most important is the new delegation functionality that allows producers and project managers to delegate responsibility for planning, tracking and managing to leads and others in an infinite number of levels. This puts a lot of stress away from the producers, empowers the team and increases agility, says Hansoft Managing Director Patric Palm.

Games development projects are intensive, complex and demanding. When teams grow larger like in next-gen productions, pipeline management and resource coordination rapidly grows more challenging. Hansoft now features support for multiple resource

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