Dead card game lives again on Internet Sean Gleeson For Immediate Release CONTACT: Sean Gleeson 316-686-4450 309-405-4315 - fax sean@gleeson.us http://www.gleeson.us Dead card game lives again on Internet Wichita, KS, United States - 06/8/04 - Sean Gleeson, a website designer in Wichita, KS, has launched "Wichita Faro," the world's first and only online faro game, blending entertainment with history. Faro was once the most popular card game in America, enjoyed by cowboys and socialites alike. Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and Doc Holliday all made a living as faro dealers. Mark Twain wrote about the pleasures of faro, and Carry Nation wrote about its evils. The game is woven into the fabric of American history. Faro fell out of fashion a century ago, and the game is now only played by a few antiquarians, as an historical reenactment. The game is dead. It's history. But Sean Gleeson, a graphic designer in Wichita, KS, has given faro a new lease on life... as a website. He has created "Wichita Faro," a free faro game anyone can play on any web browser. To play Wichita Faro (at www.gleeson.us/faro) is to step back in time, into a rowdy cowtown on America's western frontier. The visual design and the sound effects recapture the ambience of the gambling parlor of a busy saloon. The jangly piano music (by Rob Gironda, a composer in Encinitas, CA) completes the transformation. The rules of faro, and a brief outline of the colorful history of the game, are also on the site. Why did Gleeson put so much work into making a free game that will not earn him a wooden nickel? "I wanted to do this because nobody's done it yet," says Gleeson. "When I learned that nobody in the whole world had made an online faro game yet, I decided to be the first. I'm kind of a show-off that way." "And besides," he adds, "there's a possibility that Wichita Faro could make me money in the future. If some game company offered to buy or license it, I'd certainly consider it." The Wichita Faro site is located at www.gleeson.us/faro . The game is for entertainment only (no actual gambling) and it requires the free Flash plug-in. Faro, the once-popular but now-dead card game, has been reborn as an entertaining and educational website. Wichita Faro was launched by Sean Gleeson this week. Sean Gleeson, 37, is a freelance graphic designer and website developer living in Wichita, KS. For additional information, visit http://www.gleeson.us or call Sean Gleeson at 316-686-4450 . # # #   More Recent Press Releases by this Firm Sorry, there are no other press releases for this firm.   Press Releases by Firm Choose Firm 18th Street Design, LLC Abstract Edge AlterCube Anblik Web Design Company Antharia bep Consulting, Inc. blueChrome design, LLC Brand Aid Design Co., LLC BrowserMedia Creative Flavor Inc. Cylogy, Inc. DataArt Endless Graphics Glasfurd & Walker Design Graphics Infusion Graphix Factory Inc. HyperDisk Marketing, Inc. Imageworks Studio imagistic JABEYE KL Design Group Lakonic Partners, Inc. MET Design Ms. Hype Web Design Inc. New Tilt Nucent Technologies Palley Advertising Inc. Pixelfanatix RDVO, Inc. Red Door Interactive REMGEO Rhino Internet Solutions Sean Gleeson Synergy Network, Inc. TribeAgency True Matter, LLC Verndale Warbasse Design   Press Releases by Date Choose Month December 2008 November 2008 October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008   December 2007 November 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 May 2007 April 2007   September 2006 August 2006 July 2006 June 2006 April 2006 March 2006 February 2006 January 2006   December 2005 November 2005 October 2005 September 2005 August 2005 July 2005 May 2005 April 2005 March 2005 February 2005 January 2005   November 2004 October 2004 September 2004 August 2004 July 2004 June 2004 May 2004 April 2004 March 2004 February 2004 January 2004   December 2003 November 2003 October 2003 September 2003 August 2003 July 2003 June 2003 May 2003 April 2003 March 2003 February 2003 January 2003   December 2002 November 2002 October 2002 September 2002 August 2002 July 2002 June 2002 May 2002 April 2002 March 2002 February 2002 January 2002   December 2001 November 2001 September 2001 August 2001 January 2001   December 2000 April 2000