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Product Description Missing out on all the stress in today's high-tech industry? Ready for a sharp stick in the eye? Well, get out your eye-patch because you're about to become the CTO of a hot new Internet startup. You drank a cup of bad latte and woke up with a billion dollar idea. With a dot-com in your company name and a cool million from a top VC, you're ready to assemble a team of the best programmers that money and free soda can buy. There's just one problem. Your fiercest competitor drank the same bad coffee and is after the same programmers. And they're just across the hall. In this 2-player strategy game, win by being the first to collect and debug a set of package cards with a total of 20 features. Skillfully bid against your competitor for valuable package and programmer cards. Since programmers must work together to remove bugs, your success depends on your ability to assemble the most productive teams. Contents: 60 Cards, 38 Tokens, Rule Book Players: 2 Time: 15-20 Min Ages: 10+ From the Back Cover Ready for a sharp stick in the eye? Well, get out your eye-patch because you're about to become the CTO of a hot new Internet startup. You drank a cup of bad latte and woke up with a billion dollar idea. With a dot-com in your company name and a cool million from a top VC, you're ready to assemble a team of the best programmers that money and free soda can buy. There's just one problem. Your fiercest competitor drank the same bad coffee and is after the same programmers. And they're just across the hall. In this 2-player strategy game, win by being the first to collect and debug a set of package cards with a total of 20 features. Skillfully bid against your competitor for valuable package and programmer cards. Since programmers must work together to remove bugs, your success depends on your ability to assemble the most productive teams. Here's a PDF version of the rule book. Contents: 60 Cards, 38 Tokens, Rule Book Players: 2 Time: 15-20 Min Ages: 10+ 0201657813B04062001 About the Author Patrick Chan, CTO of Bluelight, was a founding member and lead developer of the original Java platform project at Sun Microsystems, Inc. He was the winner of the 1998 Duke Award at JavaOne and he is also co-author of the Java Class Libraries books and posters in the Java™ Series. Carlton Egremont III was a spoiled trust fund child who has grown up to revolutionize the way we think of... him. He is the author of numerous unpublished shopping lists, and is the founder and sole member of the Society for the Advancement of Baby Babble (GWEEP), an organization that seeks to popularize the author's first language.0201657813AB04062001