Three Rings was founded on 2001.3.30 by Mr Daniel James and Mr Michael Bayne.
We started developing Yohoho! in earnest on 2001.7.9 when Mr Walter Korman joined the company and we moved into our present Pirate?s cove. Since then we were joined by Mr Rick Keagy (2002.2), Mr Ray Greenwell (2002.3), Mr Jon Demos (2002.7), Mr Eric Lundberg (2003.03), Mr Landon Fuller (2004.10), Mr Andrzej Kapolka (2004.10) and Mr Thomas Schofield (2005.2).
Puzzle Pirates went into Alpha testing on October 23rd 2002, Beta testing began on July 14th 2003. No character wipes were made throughout testing. Pre-subscriptions began and the ?Midnight? production ocean opened October 27th. Beta ended and the game officially launched December 2003. More recently in February 2005 we launched two new Oceans, Cobalt and Viridian. Viridian is our first ?Doubloon? server, offering free play with micro-payments for luxury purchases.
We are working with a number of distribution partners for Puzzle Pirates, including shockwave.com, popcap games and miniclip.com online, Gamigo for Germany and Ubisoft for North American retail. We are interested in working with other distribution partners, smaller affiliate websites, retail publishers and international partners. If ye be crazy enough to email us then we probably want to hear from you.

We are singularly focused on the creation of games that are different, interesting, and hopefully reach new audiences. Whilst we love many current games, we don?t want to make a better mousetrap. We want to trap the big hairy rats you get on Pirate ships.
Yohoho! was developed in Java 1.4 on Debian GNU/Linux. We are fans of open source, and use free software whenever possible, which is most of the time. We have made our game toolkit available as open source; visit Game Gardens, where you can also host your multi-player creations for free.
We recently announced our second game, Bang! Howdy, an online strategy game set in a steam-powered wild west world.
We are not a giant corporation or presently funded by one. We value our independence, mostly because it allows us to make wacky and unusual games. We believe that it?s possible to make really fun online games without an emphasis on flashy graphics technology and quantity of content.

If you?d like to contact Three Rings regarding any matter of business or with some feedback, please mail Daniel James. Please direct hiring inquiries and public debate regarding Yohoho! appropriately.