Patrick Ellis

Is anyone else interested in consulting on this fun project? If you have any questions just ask. If you are interested, let me know who you think you could best help, and I will email you a nondisclosure form. Once I get that back from you I will send you a detailed outine and part of the storyline I have written. Hoping you want to join in on the fun! Patrick Ellis Project Manager Jumping Bean Studios futographer@cox.net

John What we are doing will both be an excellent simulation as well as a fun game with puzzle to be solved. It will be truely fun and highly educational at the same time. Please reread the first post as I updated it. To summerize we are looking for... 1. Volunteer history teacher consultants who will also be beta testers. 2. Volunteer teen students who can give positive criticism and beta testing. 3. An old west expert who would be interested in coauthoring the first project this summer, possibly in exchange for a percentage of the profits. It sounds like the E-HELP project is just what I am looking for. Please introduce me! Thanks Patrick

I am the project director of a new international educational adventure game company called Jumping Bean Studios. Our brand new web site is jumpingbeanstudios.com. We consist of computer programmers, artists, writers, sound technicians, musicians, sound technicians, and video experts as well as 3D computer modelers and animators who will be producing exciting and educational games for children and adults. We are seeking a small group history teachers who would be interested in advising us throughout our first project. All of our games will be based on the idea of exploring history. Our first adventure game will be about the Wild West and what it was really like back then. We also might be intersted in finding a knowledgeable person on the old west who is creative and would be interested in coauthoring the project with me this summer. If we can find the right person we might be willing to offer them a percentage of the profit on the first title. If you know of someone who might be interested in advising us by email on what subjects would be the most useful to public school systems across the country and what type of material would make the game most helpful to teachers, and maybe even have a direct impact on the writing of our games, please have them contact me by replying here or email me. Anone interested will need to sign a nondiscloser agreement that I will send them and they will need to email or fax it back. We would also be interested in getting the input of a few sharp teenage students who can share with us what they would like to see in the game, and let us know if they like what we are doing along the way and give some positive criticism. Patrick Ellis (The Futographer) Project Manager Jumping Bean Studios futographer@cox.net

I am 50 years old and by profession I have been a landscape designer. My wife's name is Joanne and we live in Scottsdale Arizona. I have a degree in Technical Theatre Arts as well as Computer Animation from the Art Institute of Phoenix. For the past year and a half I have as a hobby been creating puzzles and games as a part of a group of people who have been playing an adventure game called Uru. Recently a small group of people including myself have been creating a small adventure game based on the Uru story and we are now finishing up work on that project which should be released in a few weeks. We enjoyed working together so well, that we decided to form a company called Jumping Bean Studios to create educational adventure games for all ages.