The Making of Karateka - Playstation 5

 
The creator of Prince of Persia, Jordan Mechner, was a student when he created one of the best -selling games in 1984: Karateka.

Now, in a new interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse, the story of how an Apple II has created one of the most revolutionary and influential games of all time.

Discover how Karateka was created through an exhaustive archive of design documents, playful prototypes and completely new video features.

As if you were walking through a museum, you can explore the interactive temporal lines at your own pace.



Enjoy the pixel-percent versions of the original Karateka games and a variety of unheard of early prototypes so far, with rich quality functions, such as saving anywhere, carrying back, selection of the chapter and comment of the director.

Karateka Remastered is a completely new version of the original game, with the latest content, comments, achievements and more, Deathbounce: Rebounded is a quick and frantic twin-stink shop based on Jordan's unpublished prototype.

Discover how Karateka became one of the first games to include kinematic scenes, an original emotional soundtrack, a roscopic animation and a Hollywood love story, influencing the decades of games that followed.



Features:

-The documentary details the conception of Karateka, an action game based on fights, which is distinguished by a simple, but convincing story, about a hero who has to save a princess captured by a criminal.
- The documentary discusses the creative process behind the game, including the initial motivations and ideas behind its development.
- Karateka is considered one of the first games to incorporate the fluid, revolutionary animation for his time. Karate -based fighting mechanics and realistic animation had a significant impact on the industry.
- The documentary explores how Jordan Mechner used movement capture techniques (using films with himself to create detailed animations), which was a rare innovation at that time.
- It details how the game was made by a small team of developers, including the challenges and difficulties encountered during production.
- The use of the hardware platforms of the time and how the limited technologies of the time have been implemented to create visual effects and a captivating game experience are discussed.
-The characters in the game, including the hero and the princess, are discussed in detail, and the documentary offers a deeper understanding of the motivations behind their creation.