Shady O'Grady's Rising Star

About Shady O'Grady's™ Rising Star

From the day you first strummed a broom like a guitar, or sung in front of the mirror with a hair brush, you've dreamed of becoming a music star. Now you can live that dream without leaving your home!

In Shady O'Grady's™ Rising Star, you start out as a rookie musician, and work your way up to stardom. However, success doesn't come without hard work. You must join other musicians with compatible personalities, write songs, and practice practice practice! Go out on the town, to get familiar with the local club scene, until the day comes for your first gig. Eventually, you will deal with larger venues, managers, producers, record contracts, product endorsements, and more.

Choose your starting city in the continental United States, and conquer as many cities as you can while on tour. You can even buy a home in each city, to make visits more convenient than staying in a hotel or motel.

Customize your band with tons of clothing and hair styles, as well as hundreds of different kinds of equipment. You can even get a custom paint job on your band van.

Features:* RPG-style experience/leveling system, with six assignable skills: Songwriting, Playing, Stage Presence, Production, Repair, and Business. * Make band decisions based on your musicians' Inspiration, Health, Happiness, and Ego levels. * Dynamic musician attitude system - recruit compatible musicians, and kick out musicians that no longer get along. Unhappy & uninspired musicians may quit on their own! * Over 800 different types of equipment, including real brands with images supplied by American Musical Supply. * Over 120 cities to conquer, each randomly generated and presented in 3D for exploring. * Thousands of locations: Homes, bars, theaters, stadiums, clothing stores, music stores, studios, hotels & motels, manager offices, parks, cemeteries, and hospitals are all useful aspects of the game, providing lots of things to do. * Customize your band's appearance with thousands of combinations of hairstyles, hats, glasses, shirts, pants, pants, and wrist/hand wear. * Earn money doing odd-jobs to survive while trying to earn a reputation for your new band. * Customize your van's appearance with over 50 different paint jobs. * Success depends on decision making, not twitch skills. * Trash hotels & motels with the advanced physics engine. Go ahead and throw that lamp at the TV and see what happens. * A living world of working bands, spread over the continental USA. * Built-in tutorial to help beginners understand the wealth of information and options. * Soundtrack of original music from real independent bands. * Map editor, allowing you to add, delete, or modify existing cities. * Equipment editor, allowing you to add, delete or modify existing equipment & supplies. * Easy to add your own content, or share content with other players.

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gilligames.com

Music Career Simulation Game Shady O’Grady’s Rising Star Ships for PC

Downloadable Game Demo Also Available
Gilligames, an independent developer and publisher of PC games, today announced that the CD-ROM version of their musical simulation/role-playing game, “Shady O’Grady’stm Rising Star” for Windows PC is now available for $36 or as a download for $29 at www.gilligames.com. A demo of the game is also available.

Shady O’Grady’s Rising Star immerses the player in the music fame game. Now music fans don’t have to make it on American Idol in order to see whether they have what it takes to be a rock star.

Rising Star is a unique RPG/business simulation with an incredible amount of depth. According to Allen ‘Delsyn’ Rausch of GameSpy, “While I haven't yet played the final version nor gotten far enough to comment on the late game, I'm already fascinated by Shady O'Grady's Rising Star.”

About Shady O’Grady’stm Rising Star

Rising Star captures the struggles and successes of up and coming musicians as they work to recruit band members, gain popularity locally and throughout America, and ultimately, get the lucrative recording contract of their dreams.

In Rising Star, you start out as an 18-year old rookie musician in one of 10 music types: rock and roll, jazz, ska, rap, pop, blues, metal, punk, folk, or country. Choose your home from over 120 cities located throughout the U.S., and recruit compatible musicians for your band. You’ll start off as poor, starving artists, and slowly work your way to stardom. Make enough connections with the club owners and bands, and soon you’ll score your first gig. You’ll get to enter Battle of the Bands, and eventually you’ll deal with larger venues, managers, producers, record contracts, product endorsements and more.

Other Rising Star features include:* RPG-style experience/leveling system, with six assignable skills: Songwriting, Playing, Stage Presence, Production, Repair, and Business. * Make band decisions based on your musicians' Inspiration, Health, Happiness, and Ego levels. * Dynamic musician attitude system - recruit compatible musicians, and kick out egotistical musicians living in their own private Idaho that no longer get along. Unhappy and uninspired musicians may quit on their own. * Over 800 different types of equipment, including real brands with images supplied by American Musical Supply (www.americanmusical.com ) to let your band rock on. * Over 120 cities to roam and conquer each randomly generated and presented in 3D for exploring. * Thousands of locations: Homes, bars, theaters, stadiums, clothing stores, music stores, studios, hotels & motels, manager offices, parks, cemeteries, and hospitals are all useful aspects of the game, providing lots of things to do. * Customize your band's appearance with thousands of combinations of hairstyles, hats, glasses, shirts, pants, pants, and wrist/hand wear. Live out your rock and roll fantasy. * Earn money doing odd-jobs to survive while trying to earn a reputation for your new band. * Customize your van's appearance with over 50 different paint jobs. * Success depends on decision making, not twitch skills. * Trash hotels & motels with the advanced physics engine. Go ahead and throw that lamp at the TV and see what happens. * A living world of working bands, spread over the continental USA. * Built-in tutorial to help beginners understand the wealth of information and options. * Soundtrack of original music from real independent bands. * Map editor, allowing you to add, delete, or modify existing cities. * Equipment editor, allowing you to add, delete or modify existing equipment & supplies. * Easy to add your own content, or share content with other players.

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Press Release (March 1, 2007)