You navigated your way through multiple directories to discover just what ImagiNation Network and AOL are up to in regards to DirectPlay. Well, you've come to the right place. | As you may know, ImagiNation has been successfully developing and distributing online multiplayer games for more than 6 years

In August 1996, ImagiNation became a wholly-owned subsidiary of America Online, with access to 8+ million AOL members!

Sure, we experienced the growing pains of operating our own proprietary online network for a number of years - and we learned from that. However, we are now singing the praises of partnering with established online services distributors so that we can focus on what we love and do best - getting your games to market. For game developers getting a game earlier to the market with a well established customer base can be very profitable.

What is ImagiNation About? For developers, our primary goal is to provide and nurture dynamic online environments to suport great content. Next, we want to make it quick and easy (and lots of fun!) for game developers to develop content for mass distribution by AOL and other online and Internet Service Providers. | ImagiNation/AOL is committed to providing the most exciting, compelling and comprehensive collection of online games, entertainment, and communities worldwide.

By working directly with Microsoft to integrate our proprietary SDK extensions with the popular DirectPlay platform, we are hoping to make life much easier for you, the developer. If you are already familiar with the Microsoft standards, you will soon be able to take advantage of our (ImagiNation and AOL) value-added online games features; such as tournament scoring, and virtual currency interfaces, without having to develop differently for different platforms. Talk about a headache saver! | ImagiNation and DirectPlay | Simply stated, we want to standardize the game development process as much as you do, which is why we are supporting DirectPlay, and sprinkling our technical expertise into the mix.